Terrorist arrested!

[gridlore]

At Heathrow Airport today, an individual, later discovered to be a public school teacher, was arrested trying to board a flight while in possession of a compass, a protractor, and a graphical calculator. Authorities believe he is a member of the notorious Al Gebra movement. He is being charged with carrying weapons of math instruction.

(Seen in alt.atheism)

Comments

[the-ogre.livejournal.com]

"Seen in alt.atheism"

Heh. Elroy is at it still, hmmm?

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

Elroy is still pretty active, but this came from another poster.

[sossity.livejournal.com]

maybe i am just too geeky, but algebra actually DOES come from the middle east. in persia, it was called al jabr, as the method for manipulating numbers. the persians also brought us the number 0...