Joke for the day.

Apr 02, 2006 15:00

Okay, this one struck my funny bone in the worst way. Not in a Geoffrey Chaucer blog kind of way, but it definitely made me giggle for a bit.



At New York's John F. Kennedy Airport today, an individual later discovered to be a public school math teacher, was arrested trying to board a flight while in possession of a ruler, a protractor, a set square, a slide rule and a calculator.

At a morning press conference, Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez said he believes the man is a member of the notorious Al-Gebra movement. The FBI is charging him with carrying weapons of math instruction.

"Al-Gebra is a fearsome cult," Gonzalez 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 three 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."

silly stuff

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