When in doubt with alchemy
Just recall the Rule of Three
Thrice the same ingredient
Forms an extract excellent
An Oxford professor named Hall
Possessed an octagonal ball
The square of its weight
Divided by eight
Was pi times the root of sod all
There once was a comic named Susan… #QI
Reminds me of the Math Song by Darkest of the Hillside Thickets.
Pretty sure this is what an aneurysm feels like.
As stated by cracked after hours
Math is the power to destroy nice things with logic
Man I loved that show
5 and 11 are also called a hand and a span
Not a fan of the second one. The first line doesn’t have enough syllables and the whole rhyme scheme requires that you mispronounce Z.
Zee was zee long before posh English twats decided to say zed.
Source: my ass
Zed technically came first. Greek Zeta -> French Zede -> English Zed.
But I’ll do anything to get away from French influence on my language
I respectfully submit that the US should send tutors to teach English to our wayward Anglophone brothers.
No u
“mispronounce” Z. Yeah no, anyone who calls it “Zed” are the ones mispronouncing it. Z rhymes with G, P, and V in the alphabet song. End of story.
Good story, now back to reality, please.
The reality is that American english pronunciation of “Zee” is globally more popular than british english “Zed”. As a descriptivist for linguistics, I believe language IS how it’s used, not how it ought to be used. So I was being over-the-top calling “Zed” a mispronunciation. But it’s just as, if not more, wrong to call “Zee” the mispronunciation too.
That’s reasonable; I’ll take it.
Zeds dead
Oh dear. That’s definitely going to summon something bad.
Yea, like my highschool pre-calculus teacher
!Just kidding he was a great teacher!<
Oldie but goodie:
< > ! * ’ ’ #
^ " ` $ $ -
! * = @ $ _
% * < > ~ # 4
& [ ] . . /
| { , , SYSTEM HALTEDWaka waka bang splat tick tick hash,
Caret quote back-tick dollar dollar dash,
Bang splat equal at dollar under-score,
Percent splat waka waka tilde number four,
Ampersand bracket bracket dot dot slash,
Vertical-bar curly-bracket comma comma CRASH!“waka” didn’t gain popularity among people, at least not among any I ever heard about, usually it’s angle bracket. I’m quite partial to ‘tic’ and ‘tac’. The rest is standard or at least common, IMO | is pipe and {} braces. * is often called asterisk or star but splash is just better. And # is most definitely not “hashtag”. Here’s an overview of what’s out in the wild.
Limerics are supposed to be filthy.
These are just limerish.
Why does “kicking it up a notch” have to entail completely butchering the meter? Actually infuriating.
See top comment to kick your fury up a notch.
4 + (6! - 0.5(12^2 + (403 + 1))) = 2(15^2)
Four plus the difference between
The factorial of six and the mean
Of twelve squared and four
Hundred three (plus one more)
Equals double the square of fifteen.
3 × sqrt(4), or 6 like we call it the hood.
These are the best poems I’ve ever read.