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From: "Shelley Corcoran" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "ossb" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 3:49 PM
Subject: math funny



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, The US attorney general 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, the attorney general said.  "They desire average solutions by
means and extremes, and sometimes go off on tangents in a search of absolute
values.  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."



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