Or as better known for today, medium joke Sunday.
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A medieval king was hunting in Africa.
He killed a lion, an elephant, and a hippopotamus, and awarded the skins to his three squires back home in his kingdom.
Thus, the three squires became known as the Lion Squire, the Elephant Squire, and the Hippo Squire.
As the years passed, the Lion Squire and the Elephant Squire became very jealous of the Hippo Squire because they wanted the hippo skin too.
So, they hatched a plan to assassinate the Hippo Squire and divide the hippo skin between them equally.
Now the Lion Squire had eight sons, and the Elephant Squire had ten sons, but the Hippo Squire was childless.
The Lion Squire and the Elephant Squire sent their eighteen sons to kill the Hippo Squire, but the Hippo Squire drew his sword and single-handedly slaughtered all eighteen of them.
And thus, it was proven once and for all that the squire of the hippopotamus is equal to the sons of the squires of the other two hides.
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Groan.
It perhaps also proves that having multitudes of children tires and weakens you...
Pythagoras would be pleased!
Sue - It also shows how to get rid of all those mouths to feed.
John - Did you know it was Pythagoras? Or did you look it up? Because I didn't look it up this time. I just assumed it was true.
This is a different version of a classic shaggy dog story. I hadn't heard this one before. Thanks!
I wondered where the hell this one was going and now I'm sorry I found out. GROAN!
I love nerdy math jokes!
HA!
So it seems like you took offense at the combination of spices I used in the dish in my last blog post. What would you recommend?
Bill - "I hadn't heard this one before." WHAT! I'm shocked!
Deb - Did it make you want to go hide?
Shaw - Me too. As long as I understand them.
Kathy - My insides take offense to caffeine, alcohol, and spices per my gastro doc. But I've never been a fan of spices. When I'm at a restaurant (from the long ago time), and a server walks by me with a plate full of spicy stuff, I can feel it in my eyes.
Ha. I am going to have to share this with my son, who is a math nerd. He will love it. Thanks, Mike.
Matt - This can create a nerd high.
Hahaha...ouch...hahaha...ouch! Knew it was headed somewhere in that directions but didn't see it anyway. Thanks!
Allen - Surprises are good, right?
Rather long way around dear ;)
Uninterestingly, Pythagoras Theorem is always taught with squares.
But it remains true for any regular polygon, even for semicircles. So you could say :
A semicircle in the hypoteneuse is equal in area to the sum of the semicircles on the other two sides.
But that makes it harder to round off the joke. . .
Cloudia - So the math made the joke seem longer than it was? I guess that made up for the joke being on the short side for long joke Sunday.
Stu - That's stretching the math a little too far for sum.
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