From: J. Wiehe (j.wiehe@sympatico.ca)
Date: Fri Aug 20 2004 - 08:24:46 PDT
Better yet that the US is the only place with
people that can do math (all good strong crypto
really is).
-- -- Ryan Gill rmgill@SPAMmindspring.comAll this talk about math reminds me...
Subject: New terrorist group: Al- Gebra.
At New York's Kennedy airport today, an individual discovered to be a public school teacher was arrested for trying to board a flight while in possession of a ruler, a protractor, a set square, a slide rule, and a calculator. At a morning press conference, on this subject, Attorney General John Ashcroft said he believes the man is a member of the notorious Al-gebra movement.
The man is being charged by the FBI with carrying weapons of math instruction. "Al-gebra is a fearsome sleeper network," Ashcroft said. "They desire average solutions by means and extremes, and sometimes go off on tangents in a search for absolute value. 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, or geometry, 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."
Jim Wiehe VA3JHW j.wiehe@sympatico.ca
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