Take The New York Times' Employee Entrance Exam over at The Nose On Your Face. Proficiency at writing fiction preferred; the ability to ignore inconvenient facts required.
My favorite question:
10. Karl Rove leaves Washington DC in an over-sized, gas guzzling SUV traveling west at 1:30pm EST. Meanwhile, Donald Rumsfeld departs from San Francisco heading east in a fully armed Blackhawk helicopter that receives even more dreadful gas mileage at 2:25pm PST. Assuming there is a 15 mph wind blowing north to east, where will they meet up to plot the rape and destruction of yet another defenseless Third World country populated entirely by brown-skinned people?
This, and the rest, at the link above. Don't miss the "True or Not False" questions, either . . .
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Comments (7)
Are you serious? Is this r... (Below threshold)1. Posted by Thor-Zone | October 20, 2007 2:45 AM | Score: -1 (1 votes cast)
Are you serious? Is this really true?
1. Posted by Thor-Zone | October 20, 2007 2:45 AM |
Score: -1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on October 20, 2007 02:45
2. Posted by Jim Addison | October 20, 2007 3:24 AM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Note the "humor" tag . . . of course, it is hardly far off . . .
2. Posted by Jim Addison | October 20, 2007 3:24 AM |
Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Posted on October 20, 2007 03:24
3. Posted by Sophie | October 20, 2007 3:33 AM | Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
This is a trick question....Since when have people at The New York Times been capable of solving word problems?
3. Posted by Sophie | October 20, 2007 3:33 AM |
Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Posted on October 20, 2007 03:33
4. Posted by Jim Addison | October 20, 2007 3:39 AM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Sophie ~ Multiple choice . . . ;-)
4. Posted by Jim Addison | October 20, 2007 3:39 AM |
Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on October 20, 2007 03:39
5. Posted by Eric | October 20, 2007 10:56 AM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Two stories about zombies, I'm sensing a theme here.
5. Posted by Eric | October 20, 2007 10:56 AM |
Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on October 20, 2007 10:56
6. Posted by George | October 20, 2007 1:10 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Karl Rove's gas guzzling SUV gets 10 MPG. It takes 100 gallons per day to heat Al Gore's mansion. Sandy Berger has to drive 50 miles to shred a batch of stolen, classified documents. Berger will use Rove's SUV with the fuel saved by shutting down Al Gore's mansion for a week. Hillary needs 60 batches of classified documents shredded to be a viable candidate for the presidential election. After these classified documents are shredded, how many more trips will Berger be able to make in order to additionally shred Rose Law Firm records?
6. Posted by George | October 20, 2007 1:10 PM |
Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on October 20, 2007 13:10
7. Posted by Rovin | October 20, 2007 2:56 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Speaking of shredded memos, I hear this one might not make it into daylight:
Hillary: "When I am elected President, one of my first acts will be to provide chasity belts to every women working at the White House at the taxpayers expense"
"This will be called the "Preventative Sexual Harrassment Act" also known as the KPIP (keep penis in pants) Act."
Hillary also added that this act would save the government billions in potential/probable lawsuits. Historians will later record that this is what got Clinton "over the hump" in her quest to lead this nation.
(I made this one up this morning)
7. Posted by Rovin | October 20, 2007 2:56 PM |
Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on October 20, 2007 14:56