Wepons of math instruction

[lady rose]

At New York's Kennedy airport, yesterday, an individual – later discovered to once have been a teacher at a boys' school in Essex – was arrested trying to board a flight while in possession of a
ruler, a protractor, a set square, a slide rule, and a piece of chalk.

At a morning press conference Attorney General John Ashcroft
Said he believes the man to be a member of the notorious Al-gebra movement.

He is being charged by the FBI with carrying Weapons of Math Instruction.

"Al-gebra is a fearsome cult." Ashcroft said. "They desire
average solutions by means and extremes, and sometimes go off on
tangents in a search of absolute value."

"They use secret code names like 'x' and 'y' and refer to themselves as 'unknowns', but we have determined that they belong to a common denominator of the axis of medieval with coordinates in every country."

"As the Greek philanderer Isosceles used to say, there are 3
sides to every triangle." Ashcroft declared.

When asked to comment on the arrest President Bush said "If God had wanted us to have better weapons of math instruction He would have given us more fingers and toes.

"I am gratified that our government has given us a sine that it
is intent on protracting us from these math-dogs who are willing to disintegrate us with calculus disregard. Murky statisticians love to inflict plane on every sphere of influence." the President said, adding
"Under the circumferences, we must differentiate their root, make our point, and draw the line."

President Bush warned "These weapons of math instruction have the potential to decimal everything in their math on a scalene never before seen unless we become exponents of a Higher Power and begin to factor-in random facts of vertex."

Attorney General Ashcroft said "As our Great Leader would say, read my ellipse. Here is one principle he is uncertainty of: though they continue to multiply, their days are numbered as the hypotenuse tightens around their necks."