188622462@excalibur.UUCP (Greene T Richard) (03/18/86)
From: imd@ihlpl.UUCP (Ira M. Dworkin ) >In article cagordon@watnot.UUCP (Chris Gordon) <11462@watnot.UUCP> writes: >>In article <1773@jhunix.UUCP> ins_aaaw@jhunix.UUCP (Adlai A. Waksman) writes: >>>>>>> What was the first math lesson? >>>>>>> God told Adam to multiply... >>>>>> If you keep telling old math jokes, I'll have to dis-integrate you. >>>>> How did you derive that line? >>>> Oh, it makes no differential... >>>This is at best a partial excuse for humor. >>When will these math jokes stop? Please give me a sine! >Notice how these jokes tend to send people off on tangents? If you're not careful, telling a run-on joke like this at a social function could divde your set of friends into limited groups. And, quite frankly, only squares would not like these irrational jokes. -- Rick Greene ...!ihnp4!psuvax1!vu-vlsi!excalibur!188622462
weemba@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (Matthew P. Wiener) (03/22/86)
Please get these stupid run-on puns off of net.math. Thank you. ucbvax!brahms!weemba Matthew P Wiener/UCB Math Dept/Berkeley CA 94720
marco@andromeda.RUTGERS.EDU (the wharf rat) (03/22/86)
In article <443@excalibur.UUCP>, 188622462@excalibur.UUCP (Greene T Richard) writes: > From: imd@ihlpl.UUCP (Ira M. Dworkin ) > > >In article cagordon@watnot.UUCP (Chris Gordon) <11462@watnot.UUCP> writes: > >>In article <1773@jhunix.UUCP> ins_aaaw@jhunix.UUCP (Adlai A. Waksman) writes: > >>>>>>> What was the first math lesson? > >>>>>>> God told Adam to multiply... > >>>>>> If you keep telling old math jokes, I'll have to dis-integrate you. > >>>>> How did you derive that line? > >>>> Oh, it makes no differential... > >>>This is at best a partial excuse for humor. > >>When will these math jokes stop? Please give me a sine! > >Notice how these jokes tend to send people off on tangents? > If you're not careful, telling a run-on joke like this at a social function > could divde your set of friends into limited groups. > And, quite frankly, only squares would not like these irrational jokes. Aha! Now we can get to the root of the problem by a simple application of the quadratic formula .