Ok, was reading a bit of LIAGB, and suddenly noticed the title of one of Daphne Farquahr's books (as mentioned by the Unitary Authority of Warrington Cat)

The Squire of High Potternews.


Now, is it just me who was wondering if his wealth was equal to the sum of the Squires on the other two sides?

Look, it's the only piece of maths theory I know. Incidentally, if this came up whilst I was off fforum, sorry for bringing it up again...



My reality check has just bounced again.......

Point of order: Isn't it Daphne Farquitt?

EDIT--> Yup, definitely Farquitt. I keep wondering whether Farquitt is meant as a rather rude pun or whether it's just me.



Post Edited (04-29-03 23:01)

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This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.

<giggle>
i never thought of that.

And now i'm going to think of it every time i see the name.

I think I did notice the squire of high potternews one, it sounds vaguely familiar...

I can remember various bits of maths theory - including THE formula (minus b plus or minus the square root of b squared minus 4ac all over 2a)

Can't say I've used much of it though... (and neither would it make a very good gag)



PSD

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This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.

I can remember soh-cah-toa. Still don't know what sines, coses and tans actually *are*, though.



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Do something pretty while you can...

a cos is a type of lettuce, if that helps.

Tans is the god of a dyselxic devil worshipper, and sines is what gets blocked when you have a cold. No wonder i struggled fr maths A-Level...



PSD

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This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.

I ended up with 3 'o' levels in maths, grade A, C, and B (in that order). Got a 'D' at 'a' level. It seemed appropriate.

LOLOLOL
(for all puns)

Yep, as I recall Jasper mentioned that particular pun (the squire one) when I saw him in Dayton.

And I'd always assumed the Daphne's name was a rude pun on her intelligence (or lack thereof) myself.



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I thought tans were what people got after being out in the sun too long...

I got the lowest mark ever recorded at my school in my maths mock o-level ... so low that they decided it wasn't worth me entering the real thing. I am very proud of this.

And can I point out that the Squire gag *is* mentioned in the Annotations, thank-you very much. I've never been sure whether to list the Farquitt one ... I don't want to accuse Jasper of having a dirty mind (unless he has one, of course).



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Re Maths O-level results:
One of the people with whom I was at school was absolutely brilliant at Maths, so we reckoned that he HAD to get an 'A' (or at the worst, if he was ill during the exams, or they gave us really weird questions, a 'B'). And the results came back... 'F'. So his parents came in to the school saying that they didn't belive this, and asking for his paper to be checked again. And the headmaster said that the Maths teachers didn't believe it either, and that the school would pay the fee for the re-check. And the revised result came back... 'A' ... with an explanation.
Apparently that had been the first year in which, although the exam papers were still marked by people as usual, the results for all of each candidate's papers were then fed into a computer & multiplied by the appropriate fractions to give their overall results. He had actually managed to score 100% for each paper, and thus 100% overall... Unfortunately whoever wrote the computer programme hadn't expected anybody to do this and had set it to only recognise the first two digits in front of the decimal point, so that the machine thought that he'd scored only "00%" instead!

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"Some days I diet, other days they serve lasagne."

I took my O level maths the first year they let calculators be used in exams - I still stuck to my log tables!

Halfway through the second paper (a 3 hour exam) I felt very ill and asked to leave the room else the floor would be pebbledashed. Of course I couldn't re-enter the exam and thought I'd failed as the second paper held the majority of the marks.

I got a C!

Still can't balance my cheque book though!

I got the "High Potternews" joke straight away, but then I am a mathematician when I'm not selling knickers.

And I can actually _prove_ the quadratic formula as quoted by PSD... and recite pi to 21 decimal places. Unfortunately such things weren't covered on the sanity test, or I'm sure I'd have come out more than a mere 11.36% insane.

PSD: just for you... 5/16, 21/37, 4/9, 10/11.



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That which does not kill us makes us stranger.
(Llewelyn the dragon, Ozy and Millie)

Sarah

And 50-1 bar. I'll have a fiver on the favourite at 9 to 4 on.



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I am very interested in the Universe. I am specialising in the Universe and everything surrounding it. - E. L. Wisty

Our history teacher at High School never passed his maths O'level, in spite of sitting it 6 times.
He once took us for an English lesson, as the regular teacher was ill, and set us all to write limericks using the names of the villages we lived in.
Great Melton, Hethersett, Mulbarton, Swardeston, Ketteringham, Cringleford...

There was an old man from Great Melton
Who left the house with no belt on
His trousers fell down
whilst walking in town


damn. It was going so well up to that point.

Whilst out walking in old Hethersett
An old man, with a dog, I met
It was a shizu
which peed on my shoe
and I squelched on home, all wet.

Whilst shopping one day in Mulbarton
I spotted a man wearing tartan
it was quite a nice kilt
all edged in gilt
and in his sporran, poking out, a milk carton

oooh, this is fun.