[3718] in Humor
Re: Teaching Math
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (amittai axelrod {obscured})
Tue Aug 20 17:46:05 2002
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To: Lex <lnemzer@MIT.EDU>
cc: humor@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 20 Aug 2002 15:36:11 EDT."
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Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 17:44:54 -0400
From: amittai axelrod {obscured} <amittai@MIT.EDU>
fwiw, i first read that over a decade ago, except at the time the 1990
entry was the last one. But, because humor is in the eye of the
beholder:
> Teaching Math in 2010:
> El hachero vende un camion carga por $100. La cuesta de oduction es....
El hachero vende un cargamento de madera por $100. ?Cuanto fue el costo
de produccion?
it's hard to tell which is funnier: that the sentence was in Spanish,
that it was wrong, or that it doesn't have a reasonable answer.
oh, them wacky hispanics...
~amittai
