What I was actually going for but didn't express well is things like the 'arf, arf' joke require a knowledge of knot theory that I was never officially taught, and yet everyone seems to pick up from somewhere. It requires either mathematically knowlegably laymen, maths-joke-loving laymen, or phd students with a sense of humour, not of which are common :)
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Date: 2005-04-05 12:34 pm (UTC)What I was actually going for but didn't express well is things like the 'arf, arf' joke require a knowledge of knot theory that I was never officially taught, and yet everyone seems to pick up from somewhere. It requires either mathematically knowlegably laymen, maths-joke-loving laymen, or phd students with a sense of humour, not of which are common :)