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TheMarshMan1

How pure are you?

By TheMarshMan1, in The Bonfire

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indyz    1

indyz
That isn't a purity test, this is. :)these guys have a longer one, at 500 questions. And this purity test is the longest I've ever seen with 1500 questions (and a bunch of other tests).
[old man]I remember back in the day when you had to tally your scores by hand, because the web was brand new and CGI was only for scientific types![/old man]
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billvon    3,006

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Of all the things to come back and haunt you . . .
In 1982 I visited Baker House at MIT for the first time. It would come to be my home for the next 4 years. It was an odd hybrid between a dorm and a frat - we were owned by MIT, but had a "social budget" of $25K a year, and we could levy a "tax" on residents (which got folded into the tuition bill.) I became the house VP, and ended up doing way more stuff than I can write about here - although ordering the 64 kegs of beer, dropping the pianos off the roof, and rebuilding the elevator there come to mind.
Anyway, my first year there, two guys spent a drunken weekend writing a purity test while I interjected with helpful comments and drank their beer. It was just for fun, and was full of typos (including at least two instances of "nopple.") The next year I inherited it and expanded it to about 150 questions, made a female and male version, and sent copies to a few people via email. I immediately caused a big stink (I think one of the questions was "have you ever been raped?" which of course is non-PC in a huge way) and I edited it, and re-emailed it at least once. Note that in 1983, email (and the web in general) was in its infancy, and I was greatly amused when I saw it appear at Bucknell, Harvard, Wellesley (where it caused an even bigger stink) and Hamilton College. I ended up with half a dozen versions, which were relegated to the bottom of some box when I finally moved out in 1987.
About five years later I saw a reference to "the purity test." I looked at it (it was on the web) and recognized it as one of the ones I'd done. Since then I have been amazed at how many times it's popped up, in how many different places. Sometimes it's called the baker house purity test, sometimes just the test. It's evolved and changed a hundred ways, but it sure feels strange to see something I did as a college freshman take on a life of its own. In a way, it's the most effective 'virus' I ever wrote - one that's now evolving on its own. Kinda cool.
-bill von

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AndyMan    7

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We have the same purity and I match your earlier requirements. Coincidence??? I think not!


You're forgetting, the low score WAS a requirement. Remember "sexualy adventuresome" was how she put it, I think...
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