[Boatanchors] [BoatAnchors] Pi Are Round...

[Marshall Dues (K5MMD)]

(Groan)....shades of Brother Dave Gardner from the '60s.

Marshall Dues,  K5MMD


On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 1:38 AM, mac <w7qho at aol.com> wrote:

> The story as I remember it went something like this:
>
> A boy from way back in the hills somewhere left home, went to college
> and majored in Electrical Engineering.  His father was very proud of
> him inasmuch as simply graduating from grade school was an uncommon
> achievement  in those parts.  Accordingly, the family held a party for
> him at Christmas break and invited all their friends and neighbors.
> During the course of the celebration and in front of all the guests
> the proud father said "son, say something in Engineering."  Caught by
> surprise the kid blurts out, "er.... Pi R squared"-- and everyone
> bursts out laughing.
>
> After the party the father angrily confronts his son.  "I have never
> been so embarrassed in my life!  Pie are square?  Everybody knows pie
> are round....  CORNBREAD are square.  This is what the teach you at
> that expensive school?!"
>
> Dennis D.  W7QHO
> Glendale, CA
>
> *************
> On Jul 5, 2011, at 4:24 PM, David Stinson wrote:
>
> > Hi Larry and Tom.
> >
> > http://home.netcom.com/~arc5/cbread.jpg
> >
> > reads like this:
> >
> > Pi are square?
> >
> > Pi are not square.
> >
> > Pi are round.
> >
> > Cornbread are square!
> >
> > (No the ! ain't factoral)
> >
> > (Robert: I know about making it in an iron skillet,
> > but my momma's was square ;-)
> >
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