Re: Breaking News...just in (OT)

[Guest guest]

This is really funny, Jan! Thanks for sending it. I'll be forwarding it

to all of the math lovers I know.

I'll tell you where to go!

Mayo Clinic in Rochester

http://www.mayoclinic.org/rochester

s Hopkins Medicine

http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org

[ ] Breaking News...just in (OT)

> Press Release: At New York's Kennedy Airport today, an individual

later discovered to be a public school teacher, was arrested trying to

board a flight while in possession of a ruler, a protractor, a

setsquare, a slide rule, and a calculator.

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> At a morning press conference, Attorney General Ashcroft said he

believes the man is a member of the notorious al-gebra movement. He is

being charged by the FBI with carrying weapons of math instruction.

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> " Al-gebra is a fearsome cult, " Ashcroft said. " They desire average

solutions by means and extremes, and sometimes go off on tangents in a

search of absolute value. They use secret code names like 'x' and 'y'

and refer to themselves as 'unknowns', but we have determined they

belong to a common denominator of the axis of medieval with coordinates

in every country. As the Greek philanderer Isosceles used to say, 'there

are 3 sides to every triangle'. "

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> When asked to comment on the arrest, President Bush said, " If God had

wanted us to have better weapons of math instruction, He would have

given us more fingers and toes. "

[Guest guest]

This is really funny, Jan! Thanks for sending it. I'll be forwarding it

to all of the math lovers I know.

I'll tell you where to go!

Mayo Clinic in Rochester

http://www.mayoclinic.org/rochester

s Hopkins Medicine

http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org

[ ] Breaking News...just in (OT)

> Press Release: At New York's Kennedy Airport today, an individual

later discovered to be a public school teacher, was arrested trying to

board a flight while in possession of a ruler, a protractor, a

setsquare, a slide rule, and a calculator.

>

>

>

>

> At a morning press conference, Attorney General Ashcroft said he

believes the man is a member of the notorious al-gebra movement. He is

being charged by the FBI with carrying weapons of math instruction.

>

> " Al-gebra is a fearsome cult, " Ashcroft said. " They desire average

solutions by means and extremes, and sometimes go off on tangents in a

search of absolute value. They use secret code names like 'x' and 'y'

and refer to themselves as 'unknowns', but we have determined they

belong to a common denominator of the axis of medieval with coordinates

in every country. As the Greek philanderer Isosceles used to say, 'there

are 3 sides to every triangle'. "

>

>

> When asked to comment on the arrest, President Bush said, " If God had

wanted us to have better weapons of math instruction, He would have

given us more fingers and toes. "