{"id":660,"date":"2025-07-25T12:45:59","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T12:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/?p=660"},"modified":"2025-07-25T12:45:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T12:45:59","slug":"a-dollar-per-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/?p=660","title":{"rendered":"A dollar per point."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>A professor was giving a big test one day to his students.<\/h2>\n<p>He handed out all of the tests and went back to his desk to wait.<\/p>\n<p>Once the test was over the students all handed the tests back in.<\/p>\n<p>The professor noticed that one of the students had attached a $100 bill to his test with a note saying \u201cA dollar per point.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The next class the professor handed the graded tests back out.<\/p>\n<p>This student got back his test, his test grade, and $64 change.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-18522 size-full td-animation-stack-type2-2\" src=\"https:\/\/teachmelife.b-cdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/w3.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/teachmelife.b-cdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/w3.jpg 400w, https:\/\/teachmelife.b-cdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/w3-300x233.jpg 300w\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"311\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>A linguistics professor was lecturing to his class one day.<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cIn English,\u201d he said, \u201cA double negative forms a positive. In some languages, though, such as Russian, a double negative is still a negative. However, there is no language wherein a double positive can form a negative.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A voice from the back of the room piped up, \u201cYeah, right.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>The teacher asks Joanie,<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cIf you had a million dollars and gave away one quarter and another quarter and then another quarter, how much would you have left?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Joanie replies, \u201cA million dollars minus 75 cents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>The woman was very rich and the man was poor but honest.<\/h2>\n<p>She liked him, but that was all, and he knew it.<\/p>\n<p>One night he had been a little more tender than usual. \u201cYou are very rich,\u201d he ventured.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes,\u201d she replied frankly, I\u2019m worth 1.25 million dollars.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I\u2019m poor,\u201d he replied. \u201cWill you marry me?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought you would say no.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen why did you ask me?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cOh, just to see how a man feels when he loses 1.25 million dollars.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A professor was giving a big test one day to his students. He handed out all of the tests and went back to his desk to wait. Once the test was over the students all handed the tests back in. The professor noticed that one of the students had attached a $100 bill to his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":555,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jokes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":661,"href":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions\/661"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}