The Humor Thread

[Jeff Boudman]

 

[Mark Silver]

 

[ChuckO]

https://imgur.com/ICMkqel

 

[Brian_D]

He was not going to let go was he!?!?

 

[Bob Bailey]

Can you imagine if he was riding a real motorcycle?

 

[Joe Anshien]

 

[Joe Anshien]

How the hell did no one ever tell me this and I did not know it? I had to sit through calculus and yet they never taught this?

 

[C Lewis]

https://imgur.com/ICMkqel

I keep picturing Police Academy. That didn't hurt. That didn't hurt. That hurt.

 

[Phil Perrin]

 

[JimK]

How the hell did no one ever tell me this and I did not know it? I had to sit through calculus and yet they never taught this?
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[Rusty James]

 

[Mark Foreman]

 

[Jeff Boudman]

 

[C Lewis]

How the hell did no one ever tell me this and I did not know it? I had to sit through calculus and yet they never taught this?
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My wife, an accountant, said "of course", and looked at me like I was an idiot when I asked her if she knew this. A close friend with a degree in mathematics though was caught completely off guard and wasn't aware. I guess my wife truly does know everything.

 

[DanHoo]

How the hell did no one ever tell me this and I did not know it? I had to sit through calculus and yet they never taught this?

When you learn multiplication, you are indirectly learning the commutative property applies:
( the order of the operands does not change the result for multiplication )

eg: A * B = B * A,

Commutative property - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

This extends to A*B*C = A*C*B etc.


I think it gets masked because English words are used along with "percent of"

"eight percent of " or "8 %" is really "8 * (1/100)" which is also the same as 8 * .01

So:

8% of 25 == 8 * .01 * 25 == 25 * .01 * 8 == 25% of 8

 

[JSaus]

I figured that out in grade school. You only had to learn about half your multiplication tables and once you knew them, you knew division already. This probably no longer applies with the new math.

 

[Timothy F. Lewis]

But, if you have a nine pound standing rib roast, seasoned and herb crusted, ambient temperature is 27* F., with a west wind of 6mph gusting to 22. How many coals per side for a classic indirect method would you require for the roast to reach 128* while finishing the third scotch?

 

[BFletcher]

 

[ChuckO]

How the hell did no one ever tell me this and I did not know it? I had to sit through calculus and yet they never taught this?
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Think of the money I could have saved. When my kids were little, I would put a dollar on the table and had a pile of coins. I would tell them "show me 45%" (or whatever % came to mind) in as few as coins as possible, or in as many coins as possible, or some other configuration. The bottomline is they got the coins if they solved the problem correctly. I always kept the dollar though, after all, the teacher has to get paid, lol

 

[JeffG]

So if I was doing 100mph when the cop pulled me over……how many feet did it take me to come to a complete stop…...just staying with the thread.