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From: weemba@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (Matthew P. Wiener)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: Miss Poly's adventures
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Date: Wed, 5-Mar-86 21:50:12 EST
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In article <1224@oddjob.UUCP> apak@oddjob.UUCP (Adrian Kent) writes:
>> Many people know about the following piece about Poly Nomial.
>>I am curious about its origin !
>      I saw it circa 1980 in an edition of EUREKA, the journal of the 
>      Archimedeans (the Cambridge University math society). I don't think
>      it was attributed to an earlier source, so that may be the original
>      version. 

I first saw it in 1975 or so on a computer printout.  It's been around for
years and years and years and....  Sort of like the jokes on net.jokes.

Math jokes?

What is purple and commutes?
	na noryvna tencr
What is purple and commutes and has a small number of followers?
	n svavgryl irarengrq noryvna tencr
What is yellow and equivalent to the axiom of choice?
	Mbea'f yrzba
What do you call typical net.humor?
	Ghevat'f wrfg
What goes to church with quadratic convergence?
	Arjgba'f Zrgubqvfgf
What topology paper did the Beach Boys write?
	Tbbq Svoengvbaf
What does a Valley Girl say when she doesn't like your proof?
	Rhu, tnt zr jvgu n pbshapgbe.
How many finite simple groups does it take to change a light bulb?
	Jryy, vg gbbx 30 lrnef gb svaq bhg, naq nyy gur rkcregf fnl gur
	ohyo jnf punatrq, ohg fbzr zvfgnxrf unir orra sbhaq, fb jr'er abg
	ernyyl pregnva bs gur chapuyvar lrg.

ucbvax!brahms!weemba	Matthew P Wiener/UCB Math Dept/Berkeley CA 94720