You at least got ‘biologic’ though — a whale, Beaumont, a whale.

@p4w4rr10r: Certainly! They're redeemable for anything in Gawker's fine line of products. Current products include Canon cameras and tickets for Black Swan. You may want to hang onto them though for when the vodka and the Cheetos cycle back on!

@p4w4rr10r: Many apologies; you're correct, I did rather miss the point (as a response in kind to OP). I just skimmed his(?) comment and took the REASON™ part as the gist of the whole.

@p4w4rr10r: And Hitler professed Christianity. Do you really want to share a belief system with him?

@vam_rt: Answers to your 1st and 3rd questions — discovered and derived by intelligent people by application of logic and the scientific method and supported by, ya know, evidence and shit — can be readily found with just the slightest effort at research. Holding these pathetic questions up as some sort of…

@Tristan13: This is great — someone needs to get you a column or blog stat.

I know the "snowflake (student)" problem well, but the prof's reply is overly harsh and self-important. Many universities support this sort of course-sampling or even have explicit policies that actively encourage it (Yale, for instance), though they're probably meant more for undergrads.