i still have two slide-rules... one was my fathers
Posted on 11/01/2011 3:25:07 PM PDT by MindBender26
A public school teacher was arrested today at John F. Kennedy International airport as he attempted to board a flight while in possession of a ruler, a protractor, a compass, a ancient wooden device called a "slide-rule" and a calculator.
At a morning press conference, Attorney General Eric Holder said he believes the man is a member of the notorious Al-Gebra movement. He did not identify the man, who has been charged by the FBI with carrying weapons of math instruction.
"Al-Gebra is a problem for us," the Attorney General said. "Al-Gebra has terrorized many young people for years. They derive solutions by means and extremes, and sometimes go off on tangents in search of absolute values. 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 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 Obama said, "If God had wanted us to have better weapons of math instruction, he would have given us more fingers and toes."
White House aides told reporters they could not recall a more intelligent or profound statement by the President.
It is believed that another Nobel Prize will follow.
Very cute!
I laughed
You had me going for a full 30 seconds! :)
i still have two slide-rules... one was my fathers
They thought she was knitting an Afghan.
:) !
Oh look, another terror scare just when Hussein’s regime is being scrutinized. What a coincidence.
Okay, smart ass! :-)
There are 10 kinds of people.
Those who understand binary, and those who don’t
“Math Teacher Arrested At JFK Airport. Suspected Of Belonging To Secret Terror Society”
The NEA?
Tangentally, did they arrest the person who co-sined for his ticket?
The Dali Lama walked into a pizza joint and said,
“Can you make me one with everything?”
Take away the calculator, use Saxon Math, starting when they’re young (around 6 or 7), and you’ll have them through Calculus before they’re 14 (even earlier for one of my kids).
Of course that means parents have to take the HUGE STEP of mistrusting our educational system - which is why next to no one asks me about how to do it (other than a few immigrants that I know).
And by the way, we did buy them slide rules and teach them how to use them, like any real prepper would.
Can you still get batteries for them?
Six Whiskey Tango
They’re talking about ya, Dude!
Very clever!
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