Wednesday, March 18, 2009

When the Educated Laugh




I love this entry from failblog.org! I want to know:

a. What happened before this check was sent (with a cell phone company I can only imagine)
b. What the backlash was

But it made me smile. I'm sure the poor sap that opened the envelope was really confused!




6 comments:

Spider said...

They may have to hire a mathematician to figure it out, but he did pay. (LOL)

"Grammie" or whatever name he wants to call me!! said...

Did any of you know how to solve this problem? I sure didn't. Wonder if Poots knew how? Where is Poots anyway?

Blue said...

e^(2pie) = 535.491
the limit of (1/2^n) as n goes to infinity is = 1


So 0.002 + 535.491 + 1 = 536.49 dollars and cents

Anonymous said...

mmmmm - pie - drooooool

Jimbo said...

OT -
Schteveo - It seems I remember you being a fan of "Ice Road Truckers":
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Four injured in 'Ice Road' crash
HISTORY CHANNEL: Pickup strikes semi in 70 mph blizzard near Prudhoe.

Published: March 17th, 2009 06:47 PM
Last Modified: March 17th, 2009 10:42 PM

Two members of a History Channel crew working on a new season of "Ice Road Truckers" were seriously injured when their pickup crashed into a semi during a blizzard on a remote Alaska highway.

The pickup smashed into a Carlyle Trucking tanker Thursday on the Dalton Highway about 22 miles south of Prudhoe Bay, the largest oil field in North America, according to North Slope Borough police.

The Dalton Highway is a mostly gravel road used by suppliers to haul gear and supplies to North Slope oil fields.

North Slope Borough Police Lt. Jeff Brown said the crash occurred Thursday morning. Winds were blowing at 70 mph and visibility was near zero, he said.

"It appears (the rig) may have been stopped in the roadway, because the weather was so bad," Brown said. Drifting snow made it almost impossible to see, he said.

It took police almost three hours to drive 10 miles to reach the accident scene, Brown said.
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This gives me the shivers thinking about it. I've been on that stretch of road, and I've been in Prudhoe during white-out conditions. In 1984 we (the company I worked for) lost two members of a suvey crew to a head-on collision with a snow plow very near there.

FYI - The stopped trucker was following the rules of the road for white-outs. You stop until you can see.

"Grammie" or whatever name he wants to call me!! said...

Well Blue. I don't know about that since the explanation was on the website. :-)