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	Lube deoridhe 2004-03-10 10:41 pm UTC (link)
	*offers you the vanilla scented lube* Might want to prepare, just in case. 8) (Reply to this)(Thread)

	Re: Lube baskinglizard 2004-03-11 02:31 am UTC (link)
	Aww, thanks, vanilla's my favourite! How'd you guess? :D (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Lube deoridhe 2004-03-11 03:22 am UTC (link)
	I'm psychic like that. Welcome to Deoridhe's Psychic Network!!! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	schuldig 2004-03-10 11:21 pm UTC (link)
	Ach! You missed the wank/maths-debate cheap laugh! (Reply to this)

aloysius 2004-03-11 12:37 am UTC (link)

I want to strangle that guy, but only because I know someone just like him. What good does it do to your life when you have won however-many math championships, but you fail to realize that utterances like "Of course, often I imply things because I think that people will get what I mean" and "If I made it in a maths forum, then maybe it would have worked. For some reason, I thought that there would be a lot of maths geeks in here. Instead, we have a lot of people who fake and pretend that they know maths, when they don't" are wanky like hell and bound to get people to think you're an arrogant moron? *strangles self to get away from him* (Reply to this)(Thread)

	baskinglizard 2004-03-11 02:38 am UTC (link)
	No kidding. He's not really going out of his way to make friends, is he? (Reply to this)(Parent)

	dawnswalker 2004-03-11 07:07 am UTC (link)
	Word. Because that's what people read the "Fox Trot" feed for, mathematic discussion! Why, I heard that over in the "Far Side" feed, they discuss Plato! The debate over what would be the ideal form of "Cow" was pretty heated, let me tell you. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	smo 2004-03-11 04:54 pm UTC (link)
	Why, I hear that over Calvin and Hobbes way, they're talking religion and economics as we speak! (Hobbes was an economist, right?) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

littleshebear 2004-03-11 05:56 pm UTC (link)

Hobbes: Political philosopher who posited a social contract form of government based on the idea that it's in everyone's best interests to submit to a single higher authority rather than exist in an anarchic state of nature, which inevitably leads to a state of war. This would work because according to Hobbes, human beings are inherently selfish and will naturally do what's in their best interests. Isn't fandom_wank edukashonal? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	smo 2004-03-11 06:01 pm UTC (link)
	Damn right. One day you're learning about Hobbesian philosophy, the next it's the finer points of buttsex. Something for everyone. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: littleshebear 2004-03-11 06:12 pm UTC (link)
	Absolutely. Fun for all the family. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	smo 2004-03-11 07:34 pm UTC (link)
	ICON LOVE! I would so vote for Elrond. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	littleshebear 2004-03-11 12:40 am UTC (link)
	Awwww, you beat me to it! Thank god for this voice of reason. That's quite possibly the best icon/comment partnership I've ever seen. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	baskinglizard 2004-03-11 02:13 am UTC (link)
	I give props to the voice of reason. Some people in the thread don't seem to understand that a) not everyone is a math genius, and 2) it's a comic strip. You get a chuckle from it, or not, and move on. (also, I love your icon. :) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	littleshebear 2004-03-11 02:25 am UTC (link)
	I'm glad this got posted because this is one of the most bizarre wanks I've ever seen. Math's wank because of a comic strip. Buh? *returns the icon love* *pets aggravated!Elrond and his eyebrows* (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

naeelah 2004-03-11 04:08 am UTC (link)

Oh, you have no idea. This kind of thing happens routinely at fox trot. Half of the jokes in general spark wank, and math jokes rarely pass without casualties. The fact there wasn't a real statistics joke in this strip (unlike the pi joke from a couple months ago) and it *still* sparked a math/statistics wank is a true testament to their wankiness. We ought to start making digital plaques... Come to think of it, why isn't there an anual wank award? It would be a great to do along with the Oscars-- best leading male wanker, best supporting male (i.e. sockpuppet), best original wank... we could even come up with technical awards... (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Technical awards lessis 2004-03-11 04:21 am UTC (link)
	Best use of creative spelling. Most intelligently worded insult. Best roundabout and convorted logic. Any others? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Technical awards lemone 2004-03-11 06:16 am UTC (link)
	Best icon as a result of a wank... (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Technical awards lessis 2004-03-11 08:14 am UTC (link)
	Most Jurisprudence Laws broken in a single rant (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Technical awards smo 2004-03-11 04:56 pm UTC (link)
	Most gratuitously unironic use of 1337-speak in a single post. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	electricchick 2004-03-11 07:16 pm UTC (link)
	Don't forget wanker with the most faked diseases... "I have Leukimia and ADD and am close to dying from tuberculosis, so you'd better be nice to me!!" (Reply to this)(Parent)

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judyhazeleyes 2004-03-11 03:29 am UTC (link)

Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe and not make messes in the house. --Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love", (Robert A. Heinlein) Well, jeez. Now I'm not even HUMAN. It's truly amazing, the things you can learn about yourself from higher-order human beings such as these. Perhaps we should've thought of the consequences of deriving someone of their ignorance-derived bliss. How can we live with ourselves, now? Suppose Heinlein has any quotable quotes about "anyone who cannot cope with the english language?" (Reply to this)(Thread)

	pipssister 2004-03-11 03:41 am UTC (link)
	Why do those words strike me as coming from a bunch of embittered teachers who get pissed off when their students aren't really interested in the subject? (Reply to this)(Parent)

	naeelah 2004-03-11 04:10 am UTC (link)
	Chances are, given that he's a Mathematical Genius, he's just more accustomed to writing "derive" and forgot the p. ;) (Reply to this)(Parent)

iczer6 2004-03-11 06:05 am UTC (link)

Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe and not make messes in the house. --Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love", (Robert A. Heinlein) Really? Cause I always figured the folks who got hard-on for the math must be evil androids sent to conquer earth by inflicting this irritating subject on mankind. [No offense meant to math geeks. The fact that I add, subtract, divde and mutiply is nothing short of miracle.] (Reply to this)(Parent)

	jfpbookworm 2004-03-11 07:42 am UTC (link)
	Well, jeez. Now I'm not even HUMAN. It's truly amazing, the things you can learn about yourself from higher-order human beings such as these. According to Heinlein, everyone except Heinlein and ridiculously oversexed redheads isn't fully human. And even they have to be libertarians. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	michmatch 2004-03-11 09:54 am UTC (link)
	According to Heinlein, everyone except Heinlein and ridiculously oversexed redheads isn't fully human. And even they have to be libertarians. Libertarian? Can I skate by on Green Party/Socialist? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	psychofangirl 2004-03-12 08:46 am UTC (link)
	Nope. Gotta be right Libertarian. Left Libs need not apply. Too bad. (Reply to this)(Parent)

doctorcal 2004-03-12 10:44 am UTC (link)

According to Heinlein, everyone except Heinlein and ridiculously oversexed redheads isn't fully human. And even they have to be libertarians. You've got to be desperate to get married and pop out baby oversexed redheads, too. Can't forget the babies. I like a lot of Heinlein, but the neverending parade of clever busty redheads gives me the shits. And I am a clever busty redhead. (Reply to this)(Parent)

naeelah 2004-03-11 03:58 am UTC (link)

I'm with the guy who said, "It's a fucking comic strip." Especially concerning the first comment from realadrian in this thread. I love that he gave this serious analysis of Paige's intent following an obvious joke, and then proceeds to flame dantesdad for not reading the comments "properly," when dantesdad's response, apart from being a joke, is not directed at anyone in particular. He could have done a lot better though. What will happen when his parents find out, and he has to pay the money back? That is the problem when you only have 1 person in the sample size. That just kills me. (Reply to this)

Because I know too much about sports... eris 2004-03-11 04:29 am UTC (link)

The really amusing part is the NCAA Men's basketball tournament actually has 64 games, not 63. (A few years ago they expanded the field to 65.) So, not only are they wanking about math, but they're wanking while using the wrong numbers. ;) (Unless, of course, they're talking about the women's tournament, which still has 64 teams and consists of 63 games. In which case I'll just slink into the corner.) (Reply to this)(Thread)

	Re: Because I know too much about sports... beccastareyes 2004-03-11 08:14 am UTC (link)
	Oh, that is funny. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	dawnswalker 2004-03-11 07:14 am UTC (link)
	Do people actually write letters to Bill Amend, filled with subject-based wankery such as this? I know that Gary Larson used to get questions about some of his more obtuse comics. If so, what does he say? What can one say? "Good for you, but you're still a loser." (Oh, and ICON! XD) (Reply to this)(Thread)

baskinglizard 2004-03-11 04:11 pm UTC (link)

Heh, I remember in the 'Prehistory of the Far Side' reading some of the comments he'd get after a particularly puzzling or 'offensive' strip. I would really love to know what Amend would say about stuff like this, but I have a feeling you're pretty on the mark there (even if he doesn't say it, I bet he thinks it!) (thanks! misswindy made it, there's a bunch more in fw_icons. :) (Reply to this)(Parent)

sagralisse 2004-03-11 05:51 pm UTC (link)

I don't get that math genius boy has any particular point. Uh, yeah, the probability isn't 1/2^63 (or whatever) because some teams are stronger than others. If the odds aren't 50-50 for any particular team, you just have to adjust the 1/2 part. If you usually can guess the outcome of 2/3 tournament games, rather than 1/2, then the probability for you to guess all of them would be 2/3^63. Even if you can guess 5/6 correctly, by the time you do the ^63 part you're still going to get a lot of zeros after the decimal place. (Reply to this)

	machiavellian 2004-03-11 06:40 pm UTC (link)
	This is the funniest thing I've ever seen. It's a comic strip but all the math professors (they have to be wearing white laboratory coats) are in an arguement with their scientific calculators and pocket protectors. This is like a Far Side comic. (Reply to this)