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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
So does that mean that Accountants are a "special" case of applied Mathematician?? Bearing in mind that accounting may be a very limited subset of mathematics - I think there is some relationship there.
Yarr Egon. I do indeed be thinking of Mr. Biro's ingenious quill. According to that rapscallion Douglas Adams (<bows head, mutters RIP>) them thar intruments all go to a world of their own.
I still like Eddie Izzard's take on it: socks are given in sacrifice to the God of Laundromats.
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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
Was it not in Hogfather that the sock muncher was operating in the UU laundry?
As for mathematicians they always have odd socks, as when I was young, if you asked a mathematician what '2 plus 2' was you got an answer along the lines of 3.99999999999999 approximately.
At least they are not as bad as statisticians.
<old joke warning>
three statisticians in a boat at a duck hunt.
Statistician 1 fires at duck. Too high by a metre.
Statistician 2 fires at same duck: too low by a metre.
statistician 3 yells 'got him'
end of old joke. Sanity, such as you now know it, will now prevail>
Bunyip: it was. That may be another reason why socks vanish....
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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland