Good old irregulars

Why is the plural of "roof" "roofs" instead of "rooves"? I know I pronounce it "rooves", anyway.

-Sniffnoy

--
} "The early Bird gets the Worm; the late Bird gets the fat and juicy
} Beetle that did not emerge from under a rock until the Sun heated the
} ground; both Birds will choke on their Meals and die."
-A rejected saying for Poor Richard's Almanack, Oracularity 1223-03

No topic

Not "No subject", but "no topic".

You see, I've finished all my remaining for this trimester, except. Except for the fact that over the course of the year in History, we're going to be writing a research paper, and tomorrow is the due date for our revised hypothesis.

Now, many people have just taken their original hypothesis and resubmitted it unmodified, but there's one problem with that in my case: I never came up with one. I never even picked a topic.

I'm really bad at coming up with topics from nothing. On both my big papers last year, I did one of the suggested topics. And so - not continuously, which might have worked, but only on a few certain nights - I did frantic, but light, research on random things, in an attempt to find *something* I could hypothesize about.

I found a few interesting things, but there was a problem with each of them. Either it would require too much in-depth research, or so I figured, anyway, or it was solely about American history, or it would require too much speculation, something probably to avoid in a history paper. (Voting systems are really neat, but I couldn't think of anything I could possibly hypothesize about them.)

This wasn't working. I needed to narrow it down. I needed to come up with *something* - just *something*, randomly.

And so I picked Belgium.

Unfortunately, what little research I did still left me with no hypothesis. Then, today, when I happened to mention this to Jon de Vogel:

Jon: Your topic should be "Why Belgium Should Stop Being Holland's Bitch." And the first sentence of your hypothesis should be "What the fuck, man?!!!!!1!!!"

...This is actually the best idea I've heard so far. It's something I didn't know about before, certainly. Of course that subject would become instead my hypothesis (obviously with some modification :P ), but that's besides the point. I'll get on it. And hopefully have something by the end of tonight.

-Sniffnoy
...after all, I don't *actually* have to have any research to support my hypothesis. I just have to look like I do.

Addendum: OK, nevermind, this appears to be a *bad* idea. Back to square one, I am...

--
"Rarely is the question asked: 'Is our children learning?'"
-George W. Bush