• eestileib@sh.itjust.works
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    10 months ago

    Jonathan Swift got there first:

    “If they would, for example, praise the beauty of a woman, or any other animal, they describe it by rhombs, circles, parallelograms, ellipses, and other geometrical terms, or by words of art drawn from music, needless here to repeat.”

    Gulliver’s Travels, Part 3 Chapter 2

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    10 months ago

    Before everyone was on the Internet; before everyone recorded everything; and before she would get absolutely in trouble, I had a 7th grade math teacher with a shirt that had the quadratic formula across the chest area.

    One day when teaching this topic, she wore a jacket over it and when introducing the formula, she unzips the jacket and with great enthusiasm, reveals her formula to the whole class. To this day I have that formula hardcoded into my brain and, on occasion, use it (mostly on bullshit employment tests but still.)

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      10 months ago

      I had a sexy engineering physics TA in uni that wore tight white pants. Her sessions were full and the other TA’s was empty. I think she kept a lot of guys motivated to not flunk out

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      10 months ago

      I thought it was uncredited Perry Bible Fellowship!

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        10 months ago

        The PBF artist, Nicholas Gurewitch, has his signature on the comic (bottom right, sideways)

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          10 months ago

          Ah, I only knew the name of the comic and not the artist’s name. Thank you for the info!