Lets make Friday 'Joke Day'!

With the British defense budget being a bit short, it was decided to replace the Red Arrows with the Red Barrows for the rest of the airshow calendar:

 
AV8R_87 said:
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Very relatable.

There was a hilariously awful class I took called "The Sustainable Enterprise" (mandatory class in the business school, which essentially tells you not to dump toxic waste in ponds, or cheat on your emissions paperwork like VW).

Anywho, the professor (who sucked) loved to publish articles with dense mathematical equations in the footnotes of every page. As a math guy pursuing a double major in chemistry -- I actually took the time to read the equations b/c they were more interesting than the rest of his crap. It was worse than gibberish. It was just basic ideas conveyed in the most convoluted format possible. In one case I recall it essentially saying the expected value formula he used is valid because here's the proof that the sum of probabilities = 1. Rather than saying "sum of Pr=1 because duh", he did it with so many integrals, derivatives, partial derivatives and sigmas floating around that it looked like he was proving out einstein field equations.

But I'm sure submitting it to a social sciences magazine in economics, it looked so well researched and irrefutable that they just had to publish it!
 
ArrowFlyer86 said:
Very relatable.

There was a hilariously awful class I took called "The Sustainable Enterprise" (mandatory class in the business school, which essentially tells you not to dump toxic waste in ponds, or cheat on your emissions paperwork like VW).

Anywho, the professor (who sucked) loved to publish articles with dense mathematical equations in the footnotes of every page. As a math guy pursuing a double major in chemistry -- I actually took the time to read the equations b/c they were more interesting than the rest of his crap. It was worse than gibberish. It was just basic ideas conveyed in the most convoluted format possible. In one case I recall it essentially saying the expected value formula he used is valid because here's the proof that the sum of probabilities = 1. Rather than saying "sum of Pr=1 because duh", he did it with so many integrals, derivatives, partial derivatives and sigmas floating around that it looked like he was proving out einstein field equations.

But I'm sure submitting it to a social sciences magazine in economics, it looked so well researched and irrefutable that they just had to publish it!
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If you can't dazzle them with brilliance...baffle them with bullsh1+.
 
I remember the first time I heard William F Buckley speak, on some sort of talk show. I think I was about 10. Someone asked what I thought of him, and I responded with "he's an idiot, but he uses a lot of big words so people won't catch on as quickly." If you've never heard him speak, it's the calculus above but done by beating up the English language. Or at least that was my take the last time I heard him. Which may have been when I was about 10.
 
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Not bad, but it's conventional to use letters like x, y, and z for cartesian variables and Greek letters for angle variables. The equation's appearance could be improved by using theta instead of x and psi instead of y.

Sometimes obfuscation is intentional. I've read patents where the protected idea is presented quite cryptically to obscure it from competitors, and I've provided write-ups to a gov't customer, when I had legitimate reason to believe the gov't would share it with our competition, that would require someone with two PhDs, one in math and one in Latin, and fluency in Sanskrit to decipher.
 
ArrowFlyer86 said:
As a shareholder of Wendy's, I approve.
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They changed the spicy chicken sandwich AND they don't offer mustard as a condiment in at least some locations here. You should get them on the stick.

Meanwhile, I haven't been to a Wendy's in a year and I'm good with that. My apologies that I've affected your retirement fund by about a penny and a half.
 
Albany Tom said:
Meanwhile, I haven't been to a Wendy's in a year and I'm good with that. My apologies that I've affected your retirement fund by about a penny and a half.
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Personally, I love Wendys. I have loved it since I was a kid. I think b/c they had one across from my high school, and after sophomore year you were allowed to leave the building for lunch, but ONLY to go to Wendys :) So somewhere in my brain: Wendys == Freedom. And freedom always tastes good.
 
Heh. A buddy works for Garmin. A few years ago I saw an ad, probably in the AOPA magazine. An interior cockpit shot of an aircraft in flight. Except they forgot to remove the reflection in his sunglasses that gave it all away. He said he got so much grief about that as soon as the ad was released.
 
Years ago, there was a TV ad that showed a student pilot and instructor in something like a Cherokee, and it was taxiing backwards!
 
Palmpilot said:
Years ago, there was a TV ad that showed a student pilot and instructor in something like a Cherokee, and it was taxiing backwards!
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Did the student properly adjust his outside rear view mirror?
 
Chrisgoesflying said:
All the 150s I've flown had that mirror. I never knew why. Now it makes sense - thanks for having enlightened me!
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Yeah, it’s not for eyeballing cute students. Just like Beech didn’t put the 5 (or more) way fuel valve low on the right sidewall of the Staggerwing so you could look up your secretary’s skirt several times during a flight.
 
MauleSkinner said:
Yeah, it’s not for eyeballing cute students. Just like Beech didn’t put the 5 (or more) way fuel valve low on the right sidewall of the Staggerwing so you could look up your secretary’s skirt several times during a flight.
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My grandfather said I have to learn to drive a stick shift. So you can miss the stick and grab your ladies knee.
My grandmother said to not listen to him; with a great big smile and twinkle in her eyes.

Tim
 
For some reason, that reminds me of ancient cave paintings, which are some of the most hauntingly beautiful art I've ever seen.
 
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