Posted on 08/06/2006 5:13:02 PM PDT by kralcmot
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 Gonzales 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," Gonzales 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."
IBFT Zot
Lighten up, I dont care who you are, this is funny.
Z*O*T=B*Y*E
As opposed to the Catholic sect composed of the set of all Cardinal numbers.
algebra
1551, from M.L. from Arabic al jebr "reunion of broken parts" as in computation, used 9c. by Baghdad mathematician Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi as the title of his famous treatise on equations ("Kitab al-Jabr w'al-Muqabala" "Rules of Reintegration and Reduction"), which also introduced Arabic numerals to the West. The accent shifted 17c. from second syllable to first. The word was used in Eng. 15c.-16c. to mean "bone-setting," probably from the Arabs in Spain.
And the anti-derivative of this post is ZOT!
Algebran?
Haha! The kitties will triangulate on your locale, and many will postulate as to an obvious lack of humor!
Al-Gore-Rhythms??
No doubt NEA member, hence desrving of arrest.
IBTZ?
I shall fight against al-gebra to my last breath.
No, it isn't funny at all.
What of Al-Gebra's wicked cousin, Cal-Culus? Any word on his capture?
too many folks need to take an asprin and go for a long walk...
What is a what?
a?
I was just a boy when the Al-gebran came to my village in their Al-gebran helicopters. The Al-gebran fired at the oil fields and they lit up like the eyes of Allah. Burning oil rained down from the sky and cooked everything it touched. I could only hide myself and cry as my goats were consumed by the firey black liquid death. In the midst of the chaos, I could swear that I heard my goats... screaming for help. As quickly as they'd come, the Al-gebran were gone. It was on that day... I put a jihad on them.... And if you don't believe it, then you better kill me now... cause I'll put a jihad on you too.
"Basketball is a peaceful planet!"
(LOL -- I love esoteric humor)
relax
the pluses are not going to minus you
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