Re: OT: New terrorists - Al Gebra

[Robert L Bass <sales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The funniest part of this is that about 60% of the IB think it's
a true story.

> At New York's Kennedy airport today, 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 Alberto Gonzales 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," Gonzales 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'."
>
> 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".
>

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Robert L Bass

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