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Pi Guy's avatar

And I was just hoping that "Hey, Baby - I've found Closed Form Solutions to Navier-Stokes Equations." was going to be a bigger hit with the ladies.

But, alas, no. *sigh*

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St. Alia the Knife's avatar

"I wish I were your derivative, so I could lie tangent to your curves."

"I memorized the first 300 digits of π. If you gimme a chance, I bet I could memorize the first 7 digits of your phone number, too." (Evidently an old line as everyone uses 10 digit dialing now)

I hope this helps!

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Pi Guy's avatar

"I wish I were your derivative, so I could lie tangent to your curves."

NERDS!

*fist bump*

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Guttermouth's avatar

I broke up with a guy in college by saying we were an asymptote.

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Pi Guy's avatar

"But... but... We're *holds thumb and forefinger 1 cm apart* this close!"

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TIOK's avatar

The difference between mathematics and engineering.

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Pi Guy's avatar

The engineer looks at math and says, "A #2 Phillips screwdriver will do the trick."

The mathematician looks at math and says, *slowly rotates tool in hand, views from all angles, sheds tear* "This it the most beautiful 3/8" drive, 10 mm Ratcheting Socket Driver I've ever seen."

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Guttermouth's avatar

Yep. As a metaphor it's very poignant, actually.

I smiled when they did it on Longmire to represent Longmire and Henry's friendship- they'd never be able to perfectly understand each other because they were White and Indian.

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TIOK's avatar

And that is how you got your pseudonym :-)

I had a physics professor who gave extra credit to students who learned to swear without detection from administrators (some of whom read Latin). Yes I earned my way into this club ;-)

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Guttermouth's avatar

My husband, a Latin scholar in a former life, was delighted when I informed him "all of girl is divided into three parts" early in our courtship.

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Pi Guy's avatar

Crap. Looks like I'm gonna be Googling Dirty Latin Phrases and Clauses the rest of the afternoon...

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Navyo Ericsen's avatar

Would that make you an asymptote bag?

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Guttermouth's avatar

Cute :) Not too argue with the shark, but that's more accurately Zeno's paradox. An asymptote is a slope, Zeno's paradox is about identical increments.

Why did I just correct that? Please beat me up and take my lunch money.

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Moonspinner's avatar

*I* would have considered you fun at parties ...

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Guttermouth's avatar

In all modesty, I'm amazing at parties.

I will waste centuries of valuable training time dancing on tables in Valhalla.

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