Teacher arrested!
Published Fri, Jan 15 2010 7:24 PM
A friend of mine sent this to me in e-mail a few days ago. I forwarded it off to a few of my other friends, and more than a few of you got a chuckle out of it. Now I’ve been asked to post it online, but it’s too large to go where it was requested. So instead I’m posting it here and providing a link to it where I was asked to post it.
Teacher arrested!
A math 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.
Thanks to Glenn for sending this to me in the first place, and Karma who asked that I post it.
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T F Stern responded with:
 | This came in my email earlier in the week, always fun to see it come around again. |
David responded with:
 | Sadly, this is in the realm of the believable... One knows it HAS to be humor, but it could happen in today's society... |
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