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Kitana85
12-09-2003, 11:16 AM
Hot off the wires: Notorious Al-gebra Movement

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 uncertain of: though they continue to multiply, their days are numbered as the hypotenuse tightens around their necks."

Dark Samurai
12-09-2003, 11:47 AM
that HI-larious!!!

is this true?? really is it?

Neo
12-09-2003, 11:59 AM
painful

Yoda9864
12-09-2003, 12:39 PM
Lol, wow.... :lol:

Happydude
12-09-2003, 01:26 PM
....uh....huh:wtf:

DimHalo
12-09-2003, 01:53 PM
that's hilarious!

Vampyr
12-09-2003, 03:37 PM
I really hope thats not true. :rolleyes:

The Germanator
12-09-2003, 03:39 PM
That's the kind of thing that's a math teacher's dream because they can be "cool" with the kids. They can be all like, "see, math can be funny"...or something...

bobcat
12-09-2003, 04:00 PM
I told u Algebra was evil dammit!

CAN'T be true

Ironfoot
12-09-2003, 04:05 PM
I really hope thats not true. :rolleyes:

Yeah, bad article, though somewhat creative...

Alex
12-09-2003, 04:28 PM
Yeah, bad article, though somewhat creative... I wouldn't say creative...

Bond
12-09-2003, 05:00 PM
That was idiotic. :(

One Winged Angel
12-09-2003, 05:08 PM
weapons of "math" destruction?

...

I'm sorry

Happydude
12-09-2003, 06:57 PM
weapons of "math" destruction?

...

I'm sorry
"math instruction" not destruction lol

Ginkasa
12-09-2003, 07:06 PM
Erm....Sure...Okay...



*shrugs and slowly backs away*

Jonbo298
12-09-2003, 07:18 PM
I only read half of that and I had to stop. This can't be true....

Kitana85
12-09-2003, 07:19 PM
ummm... its not true... ITS A JOKE

The Germanator
12-09-2003, 09:41 PM
Yeah, the fact that lots of you weren't sure if was true or not makes you look sillier than the silly article itself.

GameMaster
12-09-2003, 10:43 PM
Given: The article is silly.

Given: Some people are unsure if the article is true or not.

Given: Unsureness of the whether the article is true or not makes one sillier than the silly article itself.

Therefore: Being sure that the article isn't true makes one less silly than the silly article itself.

Therefore: I am less silly than the silly article.

Jonbo298
12-09-2003, 10:53 PM
What intrigue GM...+rep just for the effort:p

Jewels
12-09-2003, 11:08 PM
lol that's great.... LOLOLOLOLOLOL!!

The Germanator
12-09-2003, 11:24 PM
Given: The article is silly.

Given: Some people are unsure if the article is true or not.

Given: Unsureness of the whether the article is true or not makes one sillier than the silly article itself.

Therefore: Being sure that the article isn't true makes one less silly than the silly article itself.

Therefore: I am less silly than the silly article.

You hit it right on the head, you crazy pony.

Dyne
12-10-2003, 01:27 AM
Heh, nice.. now I want to see them write something about calculus and school shootings. That could be entertaining.

Vampyr
12-10-2003, 07:06 PM
Heh...I was reading this at school, and only got to read the first paragraph or so. I had to get off the computer soon (for various reasons) so i went ahead and made a reply.

The first little bit is actually believble....But then it starts getting rediculus, as I see now.

But still really funny. :D

Canyarion
12-11-2003, 07:00 AM
I knew it wasn't true when I read 'math instruction'. :rolleyes:
Funny read though. :p