And for the second time, I’ve managed to dodge the Wonderland physics trip. Every year, the physics classes go on a trip to Wonderland to ride all of the crazy rides and calculate things like acceleration. And every year, something has saved me from going. Last year, it was the failed Streetcar Odyssey, which got cancelled last minute for our Classical Civlizations class. This year, I managed to get out of Wonderland because I’m going to Campus Challenge! Another tradition well preserved.

So we wrote the Sir Issac Newton contest on the fourth of May. It wasn’t that fun and quite impossible, but I didn’t care, I’m not even going into Physics, so even if I did win, there’s no money or anything for me. But the questions were really something.

The second question had McGuinty lowering himself into a pit to save an evil reptilian kitten. Although I thought that was quite hilarious, it seems whoever wrote the question misinterpreted the Conservative release. I think that when they called McGuinty an evil reptilian kitten eater, they didn’t mean he ate evil reptilian kittens, but he was an evil reptilian who ate kittens.

Another question had Paul Martin and Stephen Harper racing bandwagons. This was probably written before January when the Liberals just fired at will at their foot, since the question had the Liberal bandwagon accelerating half as fast but having a topspeed twice that of the Conservatives.

One last question was the Olympics question, where Cindy Klassen was going to compete in levitating at Beijing. So they have the track which fits around an international sized hockey rink, which is some metres by some metres. They have Dubbya trying to stop the “international metric conspiracy” (exact words) by pushing for a slightly smaller rink that fits around an NHL sized rink which is some feet by some feet.

I wonder how many people actually found these funny.

I remember last year, Mr. Phoenix told us a story about a conversation he had with Ouzanova. They were discussing something about physics. So he wrote the equation on a chalkboard. Ouzanova then says, “That’s wrong,” and goes up to the chalkboard and adds the vector arrows above the variables. “There. Now it’s right.” The moral of the story is that physicists are a silly people, concerned with the most minute and insignificant details. (more…)