earthdog
Cave Dweller
Don't eat yellow snow
Member since June 2006
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Post by earthdog on Aug 9, 2007 9:31:24 GMT -5
A husband wrote the following letter for his wife and left it on the dining room table: "To My Dear Wife, You will surely understand that I have certain needs that you, being 54 years old, can no longer satisfy. I am very happy with you and I value you as a good wife. Therefore, after reading this letter, I hope you will not wrongly interpret the fact that I will be spending the evening with my 18-year-old secretary at the Comfort Inn Hotel. Please don't be upset. I shall be back home before midnight." When the man came home late that night he found the following letter on the dining room table: "To My Dear Husband, I received your letter and thank you for your honesty about my being 54 years old. I would like to take this opportunity to remind you that you are also 54 years old. As you know, I am a math teacher at our local college. I would like to inform you that while you read this, I will be at the Ritz Carlton with Michael, one of my students, who is also the assistant tennis coach. He is young, virile, and like your secretary, is 18 years old. As a successful businessman with an excellent knowledge of math, you will understand that we are in the same situation, although with one small difference; 18 goes into 54 a lot more times than 54 goes into 18. Therefore I will not be home until sometime tomorrow."
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blarneystone
spending too much on rocks
Rocks in my head
Member since March 2010
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Post by blarneystone on Aug 9, 2007 9:47:01 GMT -5
Ha! Reminds me of that old saying: "I'm not as good as I once was but I'm as good once as I ever was"
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Post by Lady B on Aug 9, 2007 10:59:31 GMT -5
This has got to be one of the best analogies ever for helping students understand complex math problems...like "multiplication" and "division". What a HOOT!!!
Loved it!!!
And this is another great one!: "I'm not as good as I once was but I'm as good once as I ever was."
Have to stop laughing so hard now; I'm getting tears on my keyboard.
Lady B
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