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[discountdomains]

Hi,

What does the HR 1 or HR 2 etc number mean next to the posts. Under the Avator?

I have worked out HR = Highrankings?

Clare

[qwerty]

I'm not sure I'm supposed to reveal this... top top secret, you know, but it just might have something to do with the number of posts the member has made. Don't tell anyone, though. We never had this conversation

[OldWelshGuy]

Its a tongue in cheek parody of the Google tool bar I believe

PR = Page Rank
HR = High Rank

Bob I hope your happy, I have to go and Kill her now

[qwerty]

I don't know what you're talking about, OWG. I can neither confirm nor deny the rumor that I revealed the meaning. And if I did, it was based on the best intelligence available at the time. I can't be blamed

[OldWelshGuy]

Bob thats the excuse you used when I found you stealing my logarithm tables, my dividers, slide rule and protractor. You came out with some junk about them being weapons of Math instruction or some such

[qwerty]

Maybe... but you can't deny that my actions of removing the mathman from power have made the math department, indeed the entire school, safer and more secure for those who simply want to study in peace. If you say otherwise, you're no scholar.

[JamesW]

But Bob...

...the mathman only had blunt pencils!

Cheers

James

[qwerty]

So are you saying you'd prefer it if he were still in there, teaching his classes as he pleased, striking fear in the heart of his students, giving them surprise quizzes whenever the idea hit him? Are you? Huh? Well, I don't think the people of the school would agree with you, you traitor, you. I guess you'd rather we remained unprepared for exams and cut class, sitting out in the bleachers smoking. Hmph.

[discountdomains]

LOL

Thanks - thought that might be the case.

Clare

[OldWelshGuy]

But BOB YOU put the mathman in the job in the first place, now, you say he is a member of 'AL gebra' so he has to be removed.

I do feel that the faculty is a better place, and the pupils cant now go about their daily routine without having to CALCULATE risk, in fact I have not seen a SINE of disruption, then again maybe it is a trig!

[nedguy]

OWG is not going to thank me for this, but the first version of Maths Destruction I saw was doing the rounds as a dummy news back in early Feb... and looked like this...

At New York's Kennedy 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 set square, a slide rule and a calculator.

At the following morning’s 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 maths 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 three sides to every triangle, Ashcroft declared.

When asked to comment on the arrest, President Bush said, "If we were meant to be weapons of math instruction, we would have more fingers and toes. I am gratified that our government has given us a sign that it is intent on protracting us from these math-dogs who are willing to disintegrate us with calculus disregard.

Attorney General Ashcroft said, "As our Great Leader would say, 'Read my ellipse!' Here is one principle he is uncertain of: though they continue to multiply, their days are numbered as the hypotenuse tightens around their necks.

sorry OWG... but whistle-blowing is deeply fashionable right now!

NG

[OldWelshGuy]

BRILLIANT, I had heard the weapons of maths instruction as part of a joke, but not seen it laid out like that.

may fav is "As our Great Leader would say, 'Read my ellipse!' true comic genius.

[dragonlady7]

:gigglefit:
Oh dear.
You all are too much.

I'm all against the elimination of Weapons of Maths Instruction. I hate math.

[copywriter]

Oh man! And I was so very impressed with you both for coming up with that stuff off the tops of your heads. Now I feel like I've been dupped. It wasn't your own genius... you were just plagiarizing.

[OldWelshGuy]

Variations on a Theme Karon

Are there any original thoughts left to be had I ask myself?