Only two more days till the weekend my fine featherd PHriends!!!
At Phoenix Sky Harbor airport today, an individual later discovered to
be 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 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'."
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."
