Thoughts - Explaining maths slash

[jack]

Me: That reminds me of the funniest thing, have you seen Katy's maths slash?
Friend: No.
Me: You know what maths slash is?
Friend: No.
Me: You know what slash is?
Friend: No.
Me: Hooohboy. This is going to be fun. Well, I would say it's a possibly parodic erotic story about an encounter between two non-canonically-same-specied abstract mathematical concepts.
Friend: So, it's like group sex?

Comments

[mair_in_grenderich]

should I worry about being stupidly amused by that?

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

I thought at first you said "should i be stupidly amused about that" and was here to respond "yes".

[mair_in_grenderich]

actually thinking about that, if I /should/ be, then presumably it can't be /stupidly/?

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

I wasn't being entirely serious, but you could argue that it's stupid in the sense that most people would think it was silly and pointless, and you should have in the sense that I intended you to when I wrote it.

Always practice safe maths

[delph-bunny.livejournal.com]

Make sure you dont play with a communicative group.

Re: Always practice safe maths

[the-aviator.livejournal.com]

Presumably you'd want them to be commutative though ;)
I think it is illegal otherwise...

Re: Always practice safe maths

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Always practice safe maths: don't drink and derive.

Re: Always practice safe maths

[rochvelleth.livejournal.com]

::rolls around on floor laughing::

... at that last bit, though was also amused by the interchange.

Re: Always practice safe maths

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

If I can fell one person with a joke in the day I go to bed happy. <Tom Holt>The one about three men and a dog is one of the minor arcana; it can crumple steel-reinforced concrete like tissue paper in acid.

Re: Always practice safe maths

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

1. LOL.

2. Too late. I'm an add-ict.

3. Ooh, someone I don't know found my LJ! :) But I find it ironic you presumably came to me via my conversation on the lack of personal secrecy...

Re: Always practice safe maths

[mair_in_grenderich]

sure. no one ever posts links to your LJ in random top sekrit IRC channels.

*hides*.

Re: Always practice safe maths

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Wow, I have cyberstalkers. Are you cute? :)

Re: Always practice safe maths

[mair_in_grenderich]

yeah, and i'm 14& im from alabama!!! and this LJ thing is sooooooooooooooooo cool!!!!!

Re: Always practice safe maths

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

WOW WE R SO WRITE, 4 EACH OHTER! I AM A 50, YEAR OLD CYBERPERVERT FROM EUROPE BUT THERE'S AN 'AL' IN A, CITY IN MY COUNTRY, TOOO AND I MAKE $1,000,000 WITH MY JOB IN A, DOT, COM U WANT 2 CYBER NOW EH, EH EH?