Can you get your Private Pilot's license in just 48 days?

[timejim]

If I did something, does that mean you can too? Or can you do something that no one else can do or has tried to do? Let's see, tell us what you did or can do that is special or unique. Let's see what talents are out there.

Here's what I did:

From the start of my very first flying lesson until I had my Private Pilot's license, year 1962, was exactly 48 days.

 

[Andy]

I can lick my elbow.

 

[Zero]

I can lick my own nose.

 

[Lonewolf]

I would tell you what I can lick, but it'd only make you feel ill

 

[Monique]

I grew my hair long, down 'till my waist, will you?

 

[Sting]

I can recite the English alphabet forwards AND backwards after downing 7 bottles of Heineken.

I can also work University-level Physics while drunk but I guess anybody can do that...

I can impersonate a good percentage of the professors at my college with amazing accuracy (I can do that both drunk and sober).

 

[Sting]

I grew my hair long, down 'till my waist, will you?

Talk to my mother. She's against me having long hair and facial hair.

Even though I have a beard now and my hair is growing pretty long, it's hard to get by my mother.

 

[Lonewolf]

Talk to my mother. She's against me having long hair and facial hair.

I can sympathise. I managed to grow a 3 inch long beard over the summer. It didn't go down well with many people. Some just have no taste.

I keep trying for long hair, but I get sick of the mullet stage inbetween short and long hair. Any hair tips?

 

[enigma]

Originally posted by Lonewolf
I keep trying for long hair, but I get sick of the mullet stage inbetween short and long hair. Any hair tips?

Yeah, that's the worst.

I've got shoulder length hair which I've had since high school. I am sick of it, but I'm afraid to cut it off because growing it out is so nasty (in case I change my mind).

What I did in high school was wear a baseball cap. All the time.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

One of my proudest moments in college was not in physics [though there were one or two] but in a political science class. While handing out our newly graded term papers, 1/2 the grade for the class, and then after asking who I was, and then announcing that I had the top grade in the class, the professor announced to everyone that I was scary. Funny, my mother used to say that.


Edit: OK, mom didn't really say that... I think she used other words that the PF editer wouldn't allow.

 

[KLscilevothma]

I can eat, do homework, talk on a phone and get on to the internet at the same time!

 

[zoobyshoe]

I can sing the following song vivace:

I am the very model of a modern Major General,
I've information ve-ge-ta-ble, animal, and mineral,
I know the Kings of England; I can quote the fights historical,
From Marathon to Waterloo, in order catagorical.

I am very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical,
I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical,
About binomiel theorem I am teaming with a lot of news,
With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypoteneuse.

And I can write a washing bill in Babylonic Cuneiform,
And tell you every detail of Caratucus' uniform,
In short; in matters veg-e-ta-ble, animal, and mineral,
I am the very model of a modern Major General.

etc...

 

[one_raven]

Originally posted by zoobyshoe
I can sing the following song vivace:

I am the very model of a modern Major General,
etc...

So can Side-Show Bob.
What else you got?

 

[zoobyshoe]

Originally posted by one_raven
So can Side-Show Bob.
What else you got?

Your boats not even in the water and you're accusing me of sandbagging?

 

[one_raven]

Originally posted by zoobyshoe
Your boats not even in the water and you're accusing me of sandbagging?

Why deprive someone with no unique talents of his own the hollow joy of bringing down the achievements of those more talented than he?

 

[zoobyshoe]

Originally posted by one_raven
Why deprive someone with no unique talents of his own the hollow joy of bringing down the achievements of those more talented than he?

I won't. Instead I will offer you this song to use as the description of your talent:If you listen very carefully, I'll tell you what I am.
I'm a genuine philanthropist,
all other kinds are sham.
Each little fault of temper,
and each social defect
In my erring fellow creatures
I endeavor to correct.

To all their little weaknesses I open peoples eyes,
And little plans to snub the self sufficient I devise,
I love my fellow creatures,
I do all the good I can,
Yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man.

And I can't think why!

etc...

 

[Adam]

I grew up on a farm, no other kids my age around, only my brothers. My brothers and I used to make weapons. Staff, bow, crossbow, sling, sligshot. We'd run around in the bush having war games, and fight with each other. Many bruises.

I could hit a chicken with my sling stones at a hundred yards. Yeah, it's mean, but I was just a little kid.

 

[one_raven]

Originally posted by zoobyshoe
I won't. Instead I will offer you this song to use as the description of your talent:

Actually, that is pretty accurate.

I am even planning to write a book telling everybody about their faults and short comings and providing convincing explanations why.
(to be fair, the last chapter is going to be aimed at me.)

I guess that's my unique talent.
The ability to aim the probe of my excruciatingly high standards and the judgemental opinions & constructive criticisms* that inevitably follow at myself objectively.


*Aren't all criticisms constructive in their own right?

 

[recon]

I can lodge my thumb at the back of my hand at a 90 degree angle. Not really a crowning achievement, but only two other people I know can do it.

I am also proud of the fact that I scored 7 out of 10 possible points for homework during the previous school term despite not having done ANY homework at all. :)

 

[Adam]

Originally posted by recon

I am also proud of the fact that I scored 7 out of 10 possible points for homework during the previous school term despite not having done ANY homework at all. :)

Now that is talent.

 

[Monique]

Originally posted by Ivan Seeking
One of my proudest moments in college was not in physics [though there were one or two] but in a political science class. While handing out our newly graded term papers, 1/2 the grade for the class, and then after asking who I was, and then announcing that I had the top grade in the class, the professor announced to everyone that I was scary.

Isn't there always someone with a top grade? A dubious term, everyone got a C- and you a C?

I my physics high school class I once received a short tutor by the teacher when I had missed the first hour of class (had to visit the dentist). At the end he kindly told me I should ask more questions in class, I was too quiet.

At the exam a few weeks later I got full score, that should've teached him!

 

[Monique]

I had full score at my college level Metabolism exam (the hardest course of all). I did it, can you?

Actually, I was one of the 10% that actually passed it (yes, it IS a hard course).

 

[recon]

Since we are on the subject, I probably should mention that I don't attend Calculus class (consequently not doing any homework) and yet still managed to score 100% on the final test, i.e. way higher than anyone else in the class (the 2nd highest score came in at 82% and subsequent scores were in the low 70's). More than half the class failed and one person pulled an amazingly low 6%.

Most of the people in my class learning Calculus are around 15 years old, and I think that they are a little too mathematically inexperienced to learn Calculus even though they are considered by the school to be among the mathematical elite (we were all selected based on our performance on a maths test all of us had to take at 14). At what age do people start learning Calculus in your country? Note that by people, I mean ordinary people because I know that there are plenty of you smart asses around here.

 

[Monique]

What is calculus? 1+1=2? Probably somewhere in primary school :P

 

[Monique]

Originally posted by Monique
I had full score at my college level Metabolism exam (the hardest course of all). I did it, can you?

Actually, I was one of the 10% that actually passed it (yes, it IS a hard course).

Actually, my teacher wasn't too happy with me, I think he thought I cheated in some way, WHICH I didn't :)

 

[Njorl]

I solved the "Albatross soup" riddle in less than a mintue.

Njorl

 

[KLscilevothma]

originally posted by recon
At what age do people start learning Calculus in your country?

In Hong Kong, at about 15 years old, we have to choose whether we'll pursue our studies in science stream or arts stream. If you want to be in the science stream, you'll have to learn calculus in form 4 and form 5 (grade 10-11). If you are a science student but you really hate math when you're in forms 4 and 5, you can choose to be in "biology group" when promoted to form 6 and form 7 in which you can choose not to study pure math.

 

[Monique]

Is alpha and beta type math a mainstream distinction?

 

[KLscilevothma]

Originally posted by Monique
Is alpha and beta type math a mainstream distinction?

Um..I'm not sure what you mean by alpha and beta type math.

 

[Kalimaa23]

It's Dutch lingo. Alpha is arts and Beta is science.