OT Schoolteacher arrested

A public school teacher was arrested today at John F. Kennedy International Airport as he attempted to board a flight while in possession of a ruler, a protractor, a compass, a slide-rule and a calculator. At a morning press conference, the Attorney General said he believes the man is a member of the notorious Al-Gebra movement.

He did not identify the man, who has been charged by the FBI with carrying weapons of math instruction. "Al-Gebra is a problem for us," the Attorney General said. "They derive solutions by means and extremes, and sometimes go off on tangents in search of absolute values. They use secret code names like 'X' and 'Y' and refer to themselves as 'unknowns', but we have determined that 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 Obama said, "If God had wanted us to have better weapons of math instruction, he would have given us more fingers and toes."

White House aides told reporters they could not recall a more intelligent or profound statement by the President. It is believed that the Nobel Prize for Physics will follow.

Reply to
Don Foreman
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LOL That's a keeper Don.

Reply to
John R. Carroll

this has been going around for a very long time - maybe some day the guys who are amused by retooling old jokes will have an original idea? we can hope

Reply to
Bill Noble

Said deniably to avoid accountability by snipped-for-privacy@nowhere.invalid. Very long time? Cites please?

Reply to
Don Foreman

First time I've heard it. Good one too Don.

Wes

Reply to
Wes

Wes, you've been out of the loop. My Boss dropped a copy of that on my bench only a few weeks after 9/11.

Reply to
Stuart Wheaton

I had this on my algebra wiki page snice 17 Oct 2008. The joke now is just as funny as when it was first distributed, so nothing wrong with reposting it.

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Reply to
Ignoramus27261

Old joke, nicely refurbed.

Reply to
John Husvar

No cite but I did hear it about 6 months or so ago. BUT in any case it can stand being re-told every month or so to keep it current in our memory. :-) ...lew...

Reply to
Lewis Hartswick

Yeah, Don, same here; first timer also. I guess some of us aren't as well read as others, huh?

First time I've heard it. Good one too Don.

Wes

Reply to
Robert Swinney

I had this on my algebra wiki page snice 17 Oct 2008. The joke now is just as funny as when it was first distributed, so nothing wrong with reposting it.

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Reply to
Robert Swinney

read as others, huh?

Finally got out from under that Bush Admin. Rock 'eh? A quick google found one on Dec 22, 2003. Certainly not the first instance of it.

Reply to
Stuart Wheaton

I actually did think about Ig when I saw the joke, but didn't think to check his web page.

Reply to
Don Foreman

I hadn't seen it either. Gave me enough of a chuckle to forward to my daughter who's actually a member of an Al-Gebra indoctrination team. She runs a camp in a northern town of a northern state which shall remain nameless lest the intel brings more drones in.

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Steve Ackman

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