Don’t you wish stuff like this actually happened?
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Comic courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
You get bonus bragging rights if you spotted the missing precondition.
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Don’t you wish stuff like this actually happened?
Click the comic to see it on its original page.
Comic courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
You get bonus bragging rights if you spotted the missing precondition.
12 replies on “Pythagorean Pick-Up [Updated]”
pyth only applies if it’s a right angled triangle.
factually incorrect cartoon ;-)
Tsk tsk… and in a Euclidean space.
I barely made through math in high school and even *I* know the missing precondition.
er… that either/both of the two gendered characters are straight…?
Or is that too obtuse?
@Crazy Dr. M: Obtuse, perhaps — but not overly so. Well played, Doctor!
Dd y srsly nt lnk bck t th rtst? Tht mks y TRMNDS sshl. Brn n hll.
http://www.bearskinrug.co.uk/_articles/2006/05/23/pythagorea/
@Brian: Brian, Brian, B-ry! I simply had no idea where the comic came from. Your manners could use some work — hence the “disemvowelling” of your comment, but thanks for the heads-up!
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Thanks for the post, Mr. deVilla…
Hmm… correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t she holding a right-triangle?
I’m just trying to figure out what “sshl” is with vowels… oh. What a jrk.
And the obligatory Simpsons quote: “The sum of the square roots of any two sides of an isosceles triangle is equal to the square root of the remaining side!”
Randy,
that actually is used in the movie “Wizard of Oz”, when the scarecrow gets his brains, he spouts that phrase. It’s part of the social commentary. All along he has been the brains of the group, then he gets his papers, and says something really great sounding, but really wrong.
Does it really matter, I mean it’s only a cartoon, i maybe a kid but, I’m smater enough to know that normal people, don’t stree themselves over fake cartoons.