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Leroy Lizard
6/9/2010, 11:58 PM
I am checking the accuracy of a textbook for a publisher. The author meant to say the following:

"The cluster function is defined by..."

However, the author left the "n" out of "function."

:D

Hmmm... I could let it go and imagine the blood draining from his face when he reads it out loud. Or, I could be the responsible editor and make the correction.


What would you do?

SanJoaquinSooner
6/10/2010, 12:36 AM
A topologist walks into a bar and orders a drink. The
bartender, being a number theorist, says, "I'm sorry, but
we don't serve topologists here."

The disgruntled topologist walks outside, but then gets an
idea and performs Dahn surgery upon herself. She walks
into the bar, and the bartender, who does not recognize
her since she is now a different manifold, serves her a
drink. However, the bartender thinks she looks familiar,
or at least locally similar, and asks, "Aren't you that
topologist that just came in here?"

To which she responds, "No, I'm a frayed knot."

Leroy Lizard
6/10/2010, 12:47 AM
Brilliant joke. Jerry Seinfeld should consider that one for his next routine.

Maybe we could turn my story into a joke. Here's the punchline: "It's not that they have anything against cluster functions, but you left out the 'n'."

Ka-ching!

StoopTroup
6/10/2010, 03:45 AM
I am checking the accuracy of a textbook for a publisher. The author meant to say the following:

"The cluster function is defined by...well...It's not that they have anything against cluster functions, but you left out the 'n'."



Oh yeah that's a real knee slapper

Oldnslo
6/10/2010, 11:24 AM
I'm laughing. On the inside. Where it counts.