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Terrorist Nabbed at Airport!

Posted: 2004-06-09 03:04pm
by jegs2
If this has already been posted, then here it is again!

From a forwarded e-mail:
At New York's International Airport today, an individual, later
discovered to be a public school teacher, was arrested trying to
board a flight while in the possession of a ruler, a protractor, a
set square, a slide rule and a calculator. Attorney General Ashcroft
believes the man is a member of the notorious Al-gebra movement. The
man is being charged with carrying weapons of math instruction.
Al-gebra is a very fearsome cult, indeed, "Ashcroft said. "They
desire average solutions by means and extremes, and sometimes go off
on a tangent in search of absolute value. They consist of quite
shadowy figures, with names like "X" and "Y," and though they are
frequently referred to as "unknowns," we know they really belong to a
common denominator and are part of the axis of medieval with
coordinates in every country. As the great Greek philanderer,
Isosceles, used to say, "There are three sides to every triangle."
When asked to comment on the arrest, a White House spoke person
said, "If God had wanted us to have weapons of math instruction, He
would have given us more fingers and toes."
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Posted: 2004-06-09 03:27pm
by IndustrialNoise
:lol: heh heh, that's cool.

Posted: 2004-06-09 03:34pm
by Darth Wong
Where did you find that?

Posted: 2004-06-09 03:52pm
by Bob the Gunslinger
That's right up there with Al Gore inventing the al-gor-ithm.

Posted: 2004-06-09 06:12pm
by SWPIGWANG
Seen it before, it has been circulating weboards for months now.....

I'm surprised that is hasn't been posted here before.

Posted: 2004-06-09 07:10pm
by Montcalm
Once again a dangerous mathematician has been captured. :mrgreen:

Posted: 2004-06-09 07:29pm
by Mitth`raw`nuruodo
Lmfao, nice :lol:

Does anyone know where that originated?

Posted: 2004-06-09 09:09pm
by Sea Skimmer
SWPIGWANG wrote:Seen it before, it has been circulating weboards for months now.....
More like two years.
I'm surprised that is hasn't been posted here before.
It has been.

Posted: 2004-06-10 02:24am
by Sarevok
I believe this was posted here before.

Posted: 2004-06-10 02:45am
by Bob McDob
If mathematics isn't terror-fying, I don't know what is.

Posted: 2004-06-10 10:27am
by jegs2
Darth Wong wrote:Where did you find that?
Got it in a forwarded e-mail from my dad.

Posted: 2004-06-11 01:45am
by Kuja
:lol:

That's great. And it's the first time I've seen it.

Posted: 2004-06-11 02:02am
by Wicked Pilot
Only a true geek could appreciate a math joke. That was funny.