I received on Facebook the pictured request above… go ahead and click for detail. It was a request from my wife’s Facebook account to confirm that indeed we are married. This is what we would call a “no-brainer”… but it just struck me as quite exceptional to be asked by my wife - via social network - to confirm our marriage. It must be the 21st century. 
This also got me thinking about my days as a civilian supervisor/instructor at a nuclear training platform. We would have to train and nuclear-qualify sailors to go out and operate the nuclear fleet. In the training process we graded students on a 4.0 scale, with a 2.5 always being the “passing” grade.
Long story short, an instructor questions a student on some topic to determine if they demonstrate at least a passing level of knowledge. Sometimes (or quite often) the instructor feels like they are having to pull the knowledge out of a student… perhaps because the student doesn’t really have all the facts tied together in their mind as nicely as they should. Eventually the instructor can get to the point of straight out “telling” the student the right answer to see if they at least recognize it as correct… to see if their face brightens but a little… the slightest gaze of familiarity… no attempt at refutation.
If the student can muster enough where-with-all to recognize the correct answer when it’s placed right in front of them, then an instructor will (usually) pass them with the minimum 2.5 and write down on their grading sheet, “Knows right answer when told”.
Among graduates of the Nuclear Operations Program it becomes a colloquialism of sorts, when faced with a decision where the right answer is obvious and the wrong answer is not desirable, to spout out, “Two point five - knows right answer when told”.
“Shall I take your wallet out of your jeans before I throw them in the wash?” “I’ll have to upgrade your seats to first class for free, okay?” “Do you want to take your keys out of the ignition before locking the car?” “Would you like to confirm your relationship with your wife?”
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Dude, this has nothing to do with your blog, but since you’re leaving myspace, I came here to leave you a comment, which is actually a question. Will you please sometime work a piece of the guitar solo from Firth of Fifth in to some song @ Terra? I LOVE it, even though I shouldn’t admit it.
Ahem… KAPL’s Nuclear Operations program…
@ tara :: I’ll have to listen a little more to some older Genesis before I can pull out any of it in solos… but it’s a worthy idea!
@ Madman :: Point taken.. I’ll make the change.