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I actually do visit other websites besides Xanga, and one of my favorite ones is www.foundmagazine.com. Found Magazine is an online collection of random pieces of paper people have, well, found. Visitors are encouraged to submit things like, “love letters, birthday cards, kids’ homework, to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles,”—basically any interesting paper scraps they just happen to come across. The site takes these submissions and posts a “Find of the Day,” which will easily be the most entertaining thing you will read that day.

My favorite submission, and which I think is the funniest one ever posted on the website, is a piece of paper that looks like it was part of a high school test or something. I would seriously consider becoming a teacher just so I could see things like this:

Not sure if you can decipher the handwriting, but the student wrote:

It’s curvy, with a higher bit at the end and a rather aesthetically pleasing slope downwards towards a pretty flat [straight] bit. The actual graph itself consists of 2 [straight] lines meeting at the lower left hand corner of the graph, and moving away at a 90° angle. Each line has an arrowhead on the end.

Hahahahahahahaha^{1 trillion}!

At first glance, I thought this kid was just trying to BS his way through a question he had no idea how to answer. And judging by the red marks, the teacher seemed to think the same thing. The more I read (and laughed) at the answer, however, the more I thought he was a brilliant genius who deserved full credit. Although he spelled “straight” wrong twice—which is amazing since he was able to correctly spell the word “aesthetically”—he did answer the question, i.e., he described the slope of the graph. Sure, it would have been better if he had used the words “mass” and “time” in his answer, given that they were part of the graph’s description. And yes, at the very least he could have written something like, “mass decreases as time increases until it reaches equilibrium.” But the funniness of his response—and the pleasure of laughing yourself to death at the thought of this student actually turning in his exam with that ridiculous answer—makes him worthy of an A+.