Jocularity Archives (11 entries)

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Jocularity Archives — Fun, silly, or humorous, and occassionally all three.

A Halloween Joke

· 24 October 2006 | 216 words

A man was walking home alone late one foggy night, when behind him he hears: bump...     Bump...         BUMP... Walking faster, he looks back and through the fog he makes out the image of an...

A man hiking along a road…

· 9 October 2006 | 160 words

A man hiking along a road in the countryside comes across a shepherd and his flock of sheep. The man tells the shepherd, "I will bet you $100 against one of your sheep that I can tell you the exact...

¡Santa Caca!

· 14 September 2006 | 21 words

"Holy crap!" I hear this expression occasionally from my students. I wonder, is this to be found only in Jesus' latrine?...

Bob the Painter

· 26 July 2006 | 87 words

Bob was contracted to paint the old church. To increase his profit a little, he thinned the paint. Just as Bob was finishing up the job and loading up his truck, dark storm clouds quickly appeared. It rained hard for...

Bird Flu

· 23 April 2006 | 54 words

Did you hear about the Pope? A recent Zenit report has announced the Pope may have contracted the Bird Flu. His doctors report that he is a little weak but his spirits are good. Prayers are needed for his swift...

Functions f and g

· 21 March 2006 | 197 words

Today in calculus class, we were finding the area between two curves. More specifically, as I pointed toward the graph on the board, I said, "Let's find the area between functions f and g." It sounded like, "f-n-g." Or maybe...

Motivation for Math

· 16 February 2006 | 303 words

Received this little story in an email. Being a math teacher in a Catholic high school, I naturally liked it. Little Zachary was doing very poorly in math. His parents had tried everything: tutors, mentors, flash cards, special learning centers....

If Only I Knew…

· 14 December 2004 | 114 words

Imagine yourself in a high school honors algebra two class. The intellectual who's who of your grade is in this class. Imagine further, the teacher, who in an effort to help his students around one particularly tricky question, gives a...

There were these two nuns…

· 28 January 2004 | 338 words

There were these two nuns. One was known as Sister Mathematica and the other as Sister Logica. It was getting dark, and they were still far off from the convent. Sister Mathematica: Have you noticed that a man has been...

Math Teacher Arrested

· 23 May 2003 | 54 words

At Heathrow Airport today, an individual, later discovered to be a public school teacher, was arrested trying to board a flight while in possession of a compass, a protractor, and a graphing calculator. Authorities believe he is a member of...

A Sexy Math Typo

· 14 May 2003 | 28 words

Once on a trigonometry test, I accidently transposed the letters "c" and "x" in sec x (read as "secant x") as sex c. (And the spell checker missed it too!)...