Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Gender Cliché Fun: (Mathematical!) Proof That Girls Are Evil

From Pursuit of Serenity, who always brings the funny:



Caveat: The nerd in me can't resist pointing out that technically, according to 1 Timothy 6:10, it is the love of money that is the root of all evil. Oh, well. I'm still really amused!

7 comments:

Marian said...

Oh, I'm sorry that I let you think I would be the author of this!

1.) I'm not the author.

2.) I found it in my twitter stream (from twitter user "weirdchina". I kid you not.)

3.) Google tells me that this joke is at least two years old; we simply missed it at that time.

Most importantly:

4.) I think, this "proof" is deeply flawed. Beyond repair!

There is even a youtube version of this joke, and in the comments of one of those vids, I found a spot-on remark:

I've always contended that Girls = Time and Money, so Girls = Time + Money, not Girls = Time x Money. Therefore, the theorem goes nowhere. Okay fine. It goes to 2(Evil)^0.5.

And btw, IMHO the equation is:

girls = (time + money) / (insight + happiness)

Mad Minerva said...

"Weirdchina"? Sounds like a source for all kinds of funny stuff! ;-)

Marian said...

Whoah, that's all you gotta say? ;-) I mean, I like worked my butt off to do you justice and stuff... and you, you just slur over it! Outrageous!

Btw, "weirdchina" is so not meeting your expectations. Then again, since when does China need a twitter account to deliver all kinds of ... stuff?!

Mad Minerva said...

Oh, Marian! Maybe girls really are evil...and I am a girl! ;-)

lumpy said...

Hm, let's see.

So, the wages of sin = death. Now, wages also = time x money, and so:

wages (death) = time x money = girls

therefore, girls are going to be the death of me yet, poor sinner that I am. QED.

Of course, that could also explain why girls go for bad boys:

wages (of sin, i.e. bad boyness) = time x money = girls

I wonder what the wages of cosin are? Or would that lead us off on a ...

no, we shan't go there.

lumpy said...

Oh, so I found my crystal Google and it revealed the wages of cosin as the square root of 1-death^2(theta).

From the very bottom of this page:

http://echochamber.me/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=34163&start=0&sid=355314a57751512040931fe13c1dab45

Mad Minerva said...

LOL! Nerds DO have more fun.