For it's simpler, you see,
Than 3 point 1 4 1 5 9.
("The Lure of the Limerick" by W.S. Baring-Gould, p.5. Attributed to
Harvey L. Carter).
A statistician can have his head in an oven and his feet in ice, and
he will say that on the average he feels fine.
Math Quiz:
1. What the acorn said when he grew up ___________________ a. bisects
2. A dead parrot _________________________________________ b. center
3. What you should do when it rains_______________________ c. hypotenuse
4. A geometer who has been to the beach __________________ d. coincide
5. The set of cards is missing ___________________________ e. polygon
6. The boy has a speech defect ___________________________ f. secant
7. How they schedule gym class ___________________________ g. tangent
8. What he did when his mother-in-law wanted to go home___ h. ellipse
9. The tall kettle boiling on the stove __________________ i. geometry
10. Why the girl doesn't run a 4-minute mile______________ j. decagon
97.3% of all statistics are made up.
Did you hear the one about the statistician?
Probably....
Ralph: Dad, will you do my math for me tonight?
Dad: No, son, it wouldn't be right.
Ralph: Well, you could try.
"The reason that every major university maintains a department of
mathematics is that it is cheaper to do this than to institutionalize
all those people."
Useful Computer Acronyms
PCMCIA: People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms
ISDN: It Still Does Nothing
APPLE: Arrogance Produces Profit-Losing Entity
SCSI: System Can't See It
DOS: Defunct Operating System
BASIC: Bill's Attempt to Seize Industry Control
IBM: I Blame Microsoft
DEC: Do Expect Cuts
CD-ROM: Consumer Device, Rendered Obsolete in Months
OS/2: Obsolete Soon, Too
WWW: World Wide Wait
MACINTOSH: Most Applications Crash; If Not, The Operating System Hangs
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