I vote to take it down and for the moderator to help stop things like this from being on the page. It's not just a repository for EVERY thought that hits your head.
Ah, the good old College Misery is back, with all the back-biting, infighting, and assorted other horseshit....and it is good to hear from the secret world of emails. Only here could a simple math joke blow up into World War III.
It also seems to me that it is (1) quite understandable for an adjunct to be preoccupied with loaves of bread, and how to divide them or not, at this time of year (post- the beginning of teaching; pre-, in most places, the first pay date after the long summer drought) and (2) vaguely appropriate to the day to talk about dividing loaves of bread (an activity which has theological overtones, at least for Christians, though I'm not sure there's a mathematical way to represent what happens when someone divides a loaf of bread and comes up with more bread than he started with. But that's sort of the point of the story).
I took it as a comment on teaching to a whole roomful of student not one of whom has a clue what you're saying.
ReplyDeletei agree with merely academic. plus its funny.
ReplyDeleteI vote to take it down and for the moderator to help stop things like this from being on the page. It's not just a repository for EVERY thought that hits your head.
ReplyDeleteI think it's funny. HOw many days have I stood in front of a class wondering why no one is taking my bread?!
ReplyDeleteAh, the good old College Misery is back, with all the back-biting, infighting, and assorted other horseshit....and it is good to hear from the secret world of emails. Only here could a simple math joke blow up into World War III.
ReplyDeleteIt also seems to me that it is (1) quite understandable for an adjunct to be preoccupied with loaves of bread, and how to divide them or not, at this time of year (post- the beginning of teaching; pre-, in most places, the first pay date after the long summer drought) and (2) vaguely appropriate to the day to talk about dividing loaves of bread (an activity which has theological overtones, at least for Christians, though I'm not sure there's a mathematical way to represent what happens when someone divides a loaf of bread and comes up with more bread than he started with. But that's sort of the point of the story).
ReplyDeleteWhere else can you see a math joke like this?
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