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Sun Dec-05-04 06:06 PM
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Teacher Arrested At JFK For Carrying Ruler, Protractor, Calculator |
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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 set square, 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'."
When asked to comment on the arrest, President Bush said, "If God had wanted us to have better weapons of math instruction, God would have give us more fingers and toes."
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Sun Dec-05-04 06:07 PM
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Sun Dec-05-04 06:08 PM
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2. Can someone figure out the ODDS of that happening? |
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Sun Dec-05-04 06:09 PM
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3. Wow, we really have some funny people |
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Sun Dec-05-04 06:27 PM
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5. I'm not a funny person. I just play one on DU. |
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Sun Dec-05-04 06:13 PM
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4. And they postulate the existence of... |
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A null concept which they label "zero." It is their illogical faith in the existence of this concept which causes them to resort to the use of the WMI.
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