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Overheard: "extra" extra-credit?

Astronomy 210L, Spring Semester 2009
Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA

(Overheard in introductory astronomy lab immediately preceding an extra-credit quiz with slightly more possible points than previously announced.)

Student: "Are these extra-extra-credit points?"

(Beat.)

Instructor: "Let's call them unexpected, unannounced points."

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