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randr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-10-04 11:39 AM
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Fuzzy Math?
I know they are having a hard time finding and counting the total number of people who are out of work but do they have to prove how stupid they think we are?
Yesterday it was reported that the unemployment rate fell from 5.9% to 5.7% by the creation of only 1000 jobs. Using this math there would only be 28,500 people unemployed at this time.
Are these the same people doing the accounting for Enron?
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Ivote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-10-04 11:45 AM
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1. MATH INSTRUCTION


Weapons of Math Instruction discovered

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 protractor, a T-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,"
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 dis-integrate 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.
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lovedems Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-10-04 12:17 PM
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2. That's a keeper! n/t
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yagotme Donating Member (56 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-10-04 12:23 PM
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3. Math Instruction Weapons
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA (thunk). (Me falling off chair).
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Ivote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-10-04 12:53 PM
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4. THUNK
Hope you didnt hurt yourself.
I busted (figurativly), myself.
By the way, WELCOME ABOARD.
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