Terrorist Alert!!!! :-)

[Larry Dighera]

Subject: Terrorist Alert!!!!


At New York's Kennedy Airport today, an individual that was 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 John Ashcroft said he believes that 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 search of absolute value. They use
secret code names like x and y and refer to themselves as unknowns,
but we have determined that they belong to a common denominator -- the
axis of medieval, with coordinates in every country. As the Greek
philanderer Isosceles used to say, there are three sides to every
triangle, Ashcroft declared. 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.

[jsmith]

Old news Larry. Keep up.

Larry Dighera wrote:
>
> Subject: Terrorist Alert!!!!
>
> At New York's Kennedy Airport today, an individual that was 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 John Ashcroft said he believes that 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 search of absolute value. They use
> secret code names like x and y and refer to themselves as unknowns,
> but we have determined that they belong to a common denominator -- the
> axis of medieval, with coordinates in every country. As the Greek
> philanderer Isosceles used to say, there are three sides to every
> triangle, Ashcroft declared. 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.

[Dylan Smith]

In article >, Larry Dighera wrote:
> President Bush said, If God had wanted us to have better weapons of
> math instruction, he would have given us more fingers and toes.

Hey, I can count to 1023 on my fingers.

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On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 18:25:06 -0000, Dylan Smith
> wrote:

>In article >, Larry Dighera wrote:
>> President Bush said, If God had wanted us to have better weapons of
>> math instruction, he would have given us more fingers and toes.
>
>Hey, I can count to 1023 on my fingers.

Using that same logic, but a different modulo the sky's the limit.
:-)

[Gerry Caron]

> wrote in message
...
> On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 18:25:06 -0000, Dylan Smith
> > wrote:
>
> >In article >, Larry Dighera
wrote:
> >> President Bush said, If God had wanted us to have better weapons of
> >> math instruction, he would have given us more fingers and toes.
> >
> >Hey, I can count to 1023 on my fingers.
>
> Using that same logic, but a different modulo the sky's the limit.
> :-)
>
There are 10 kinds of people in the world. Those that understand binary,
and those who don't.
;-)

[jsmith]

Nine out of ten are zeros.

Gerry Caron wrote:
>
> > wrote in message
> ...
> > On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 18:25:06 -0000, Dylan Smith
> > > wrote:
> >
> > >In article >, Larry Dighera
> wrote:
> > >> President Bush said, If God had wanted us to have better weapons of
> > >> math instruction, he would have given us more fingers and toes.
> > >
> > >Hey, I can count to 1023 on my fingers.
> >
> > Using that same logic, but a different modulo the sky's the limit.
> > :-)
> >
> There are 10 kinds of people in the world. Those that understand binary,
> and those who don't.
> ;-)

[Dan Truesdell]

Gerry Caron wrote:
<snip>


> There are 10 kinds of people in the world. Those that understand binary,
> and those who don't.
> ;-)
>

ROTFLMAO. That is a classic!!! It reminds me of the answering machine
greeting that I saw on the internet:

"You've reached an imaginary number. Please hang up, rotate your phone
90 degrees, and try again."



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[Ash Wyllie]

Dan Truesdell opined

>Gerry Caron wrote:
><snip>


>> There are 10 kinds of people in the world. Those that understand binary,
>> and those who don't.
>> ;-)
>>

>ROTFLMAO. That is a classic!!! It reminds me of the answering machine
>greeting that I saw on the internet:

>"You've reached an imaginary number. Please hang up, rotate your phone
>90 degrees, and try again."


Around which axis?



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