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From: marco@andromeda.RUTGERS.EDU (the wharf rat)
Newsgroups: net.jokes,net.math
Subject: Re: "the run-on joke"
Message-ID: <151@andromeda.RUTGERS.EDU>
Date: Sat, 22-Mar-86 10:18:54 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar 22 10:18:54 1986
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In article <443@excalibur.UUCP>, 188622462@excalibur.UUCP (Greene T Richard) writes:
> From: imd@ihlpl.UUCP (Ira M. Dworkin )
> 
> >In article cagordon@watnot.UUCP (Chris Gordon) <11462@watnot.UUCP> writes:
> >>In article <1773@jhunix.UUCP> ins_aaaw@jhunix.UUCP (Adlai A. Waksman) writes:
> >>>>>>> What was the first math lesson?
> >>>>>>> God told Adam to multiply...
> >>>>>> If you keep telling old math jokes, I'll have to dis-integrate you.
> >>>>> How did you derive that line?
> >>>> Oh, it makes no differential...
> >>>This is at best a partial excuse for humor.
> >>When will these math jokes stop? Please give me a sine!
> >Notice how these jokes tend to send people off on tangents?
> If you're not careful, telling a run-on joke like this at a social function
>   could divde your set of friends into limited groups.
> And, quite frankly, only squares would not like these irrational jokes.
 Aha! Now we can get to the root of the problem
  by a simple application of the quadratic formula .