quote: I have been mostly trying to diffuse by absurdity which can then deteriorate to "death by fluff".
I'm a big admirer of this method. I've tried it in class, however, and it's not quite as effective for some reason. Posts: 8504 | Registered: Aug 1999
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Actually, what I like about the joke is that you need to know a bit of math/physics AND a little biology. Or at least know why a mosquito would be termed a "vector."
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I sent this joke to my Mathemetician Friend to Whom I Send Math Jokes. He usually manages at least a polite laugh for most of them, but this was outright booed. I didn't get it completely, so he explained and booed some more. It was so sad. I refuse to consider than his change of behavior from polite laughter to irritated scorn has ANYTHING to do with a date I went on with his friend that he found out about last week in the middle of a party during the rest of which he refused to speak to me. I'm sorry. That's probably more information than y'all want. I'm just so sad that I don't have an audience for mathemetician jokes anymore.
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CT, you are a genius with the heart of an angel, and I worship you. Your new method is a brilliant response to suspected trolls.
1) If they are truly only interested in trolling, they will go away bored, nauseated, and feeling rather outmaneuvered.
2) If they are mainly trolling but there is a spark of something more going on inside, this method will tend to fan it into a flame. Many people through the years who have initially come to hatrack with big chips on their shoulders and lots of disdain and disrespect have stayed and grown and eventually become valuable and beloved members of our jeesh.
3) If they are simply ignorant and misguided then they will take up the spirit of the place with enthusiasm, and their awkward first phase will be short lived and quickly forgotten.
<bows in awed reverence>
<repudiates shunning>
<repents of past shunnings>
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I don't see why this is a "mathematician" joke. Each facet requires at most a high school level of knowledge.
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Tom, because in my sad experience, most people promptly forget such details as vectors and scalars as soon as the class is over (if not sooner). Unless it's a field they are interested in.
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Come to think of it, I don't think I learned about them in HS either. A series of complicated and frustrating events resulted in no physics class in my senior year. And I think I learned the word "vector" in the disease sense in college.
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Three countries were going to war. The first sent ten knights and ten squires, the second sent five knights and five squires, and the third sent a single knight and his squire. The knights were feeling rather lazy that day, so they decided to make the squires fight for them. Before the battle, the lone squire hung a cauldron from the branch of a tree. He later tied in battle, thus proving that the squire of the high pot in noose is equal to the squires of the other two sides.
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