Not Funny

Professor: I’ve heard from students that have taken my exams that they’re generally considered ‘thinking’ exams.  Rather than just have you recite the law, I try to throw questions in there that will make you examine the policies behind it…yes?
Law student: What would you say the ratio of thinking questions to normal questions is going to be?
Professor: Hmmm… really, I don’t know if I can answer that.  I mean, what to one person would be a thinking-type question, to another might not be, you know?
[Person raises hand again]
Professor: Usually I’m reluctant to let a person who asks a question like that ask another question, so let me ask you first — how many of your questions are thinking-type questions?

Sitting around in the student lounge today, it occurred to me that the word "procrastinate," at first blush, seems to have an inherent contradiction:  its first part, "pro," is generally used with words that have positive, work-related connotations.  "Pro-duce." "Pro-tect." "Pro-create." "Pro-liferate."  What was it doing in a word that meant doing the least possible? 

I spent the next ten minutes discussing it with the random assortment of people around me, who were, as I’d anticipated, no help at all.  I then opened up trusty ol’ Wikipedia (all lies, of course, but convincing lies nonetheless), and discovered the following:

"The word itself comes from the Latin word procrastinatus: pro- (forward) and crastinus (of tomorrow)."

AMAZING!  "Procrastination" literally means "to put off until tomorrow." 
Latin is great.
Procrastination is great.