Meles’s Probing Question of the Week

All right Rose-Hulman! I read you loud and clear! Point taken! My bad!

In the hopes of having a bit of fun, I made the fatal mistake of inquiring into your love lives, and for that I sincerely apologize. Over the past week, I have seen the darkest side of human nature, and that side is the ability to convey loneliness through the use of out-of-context movie dialogue. While the piece of paper containing this week’s Grand Prize Probe Winning Submission has been locked safely away in a secret underground bunker so that no one ever has to witness the horrors I’ve beheld, I do have several honorable mentions for you. Remember, these are all in response to the prompt Describe your love life using only a movie quote.

The “The longer I think about it, the harder I cringe” Award

This award is given to the submission that, while simply disturbing at first, forever plagues the remainder of my day by occasionally resurfacing in my head and bringing with it a new and more twisted meaning than before until the end of the day hits and I end up throwing up a little bit in my mouth every time I look at it in my e-mail inbox. The award goes to Dave Schluneker, whose submission of “GOOOOOOOOOSE!” yelled by Maverick in the movie Top Gun will leave me forever favoring the sitting position or standing with my back to a wall. Thank you Dave, for truly showing us the “Highway to the Danger Zone.”





The Stanley Kubrick “Profundity in confusion” Award

This award is dedicated to those who, like the late director and his Space Odyssey, inspired thousands of people to watch something they couldn’t possibly make sense of, then pretentiously brag to others about how deep they thought the movie was. The winner of this award goes to David Bander’s submission of “When I’m good, I’m very, very good, but when I’m bad, I’m better,” from I’m No Angel. I see your game, David. You might have everyone else fooled, but just because I didn’t understand what you just said and you can summon up movie quotes from 1933 doesn’t mean I think you’re a deep thinker. Take your award and leave me.

Now that that’s behind us, it’s time to introduce this week’s question! This one has been carefully calculated to be a surefire winner! Here it is:



If your academic major was to have a theme song, what would it be?



Be sure to include your name, major, song name, and the artist who wrote it when you send your submission to flipside@rose-hulman.edu.