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The Sushi Bandit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-27-04 03:25 PM
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Teacher arrested for carrying weapons of math instruction
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 John Ashcroft 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," Ashcroft 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," 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”.

"I am gratified that our government has given us a sine that it is intent on protracting us from these math-dogs who are willing to disintegrate us with calculus disregard. Murky statisticians love to inflict plane on every sphere of influence," the President said, adding: "Under the circumferences, we must differentiate their root, make our point, and draw the line."

President Bush warned, "These weapons of math instruction have the potential to decimal everything in their math on a scalene never before seen unless we become exponents of a Higher Power and begin to factor-in random facts of vertex."

Attorney General Ashcroft said, "As our Great Leader would say, read my ellipse. Here is one principle he is uncertainty of: though they continue to multiply, their days are numbered as the hypotenuse tightens around their necks."
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sinkingfeeling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-27-04 03:28 PM
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1. Very funny, but check your last sentence.."uncertainty" ??
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The Sushi Bandit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-27-04 03:47 PM
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3. As in the "uncertainty principle" !
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Brucey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-27-04 03:29 PM
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2. "Also,
we need to divide and conquer, subtract them from society, and multiply our efforts against the al-gebra enemy," the President added.
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LWolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-28-04 09:02 AM
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4. heh, heh.
That's the way to start the day. Thanks, Sushi Bandit. I'm off to my first staff meeting of the day.
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Ilsa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-28-04 09:32 AM
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5. Love it! Thanks for the laugh! n/t
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waterman Donating Member (585 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-28-04 12:22 PM
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6. Nice one, SB, maybe you should contribute that one to the Onion
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The Sushi Bandit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-28-04 07:37 PM
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7. Maybe I should.. I "Borrow" from them all the time!
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