Comments on: Joke About The Last Fifty Years of Math 1958-2008

By: Julie

Julie — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:57:42 +0000

Well how about Science?
‘Astronomers approve new guidelines under which distant Pluto is no longer defined as a planet’…
So now Pluto isn’t a planet.
I guess they aren’t selling as many of that size styrofoam
ball now.
What next, we didn’t really land on the moon?

By: lauri

lauri — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 02:46:05 +0000

LMAO! now this is funny! i was at a sonic drive-in just this after noon and the girl came out with my receipt in hand showing the .87 cents she needed to give as change and she stood there trying to give me .87 cents, even after i gave her .13 cents and explained to her three times all she needed to give me was a full dollar. i originally wanted to give her the dollar as a tip for bringing me out my soda, but needless to say, i told her, “keep the change ” and she walked away happily with her $1.87. now i LMAO!!!

By: B

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:10:29 +0000

Congratulations for your pitiful Spanish.

By: david

david — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:13:49 +0000

How can you not get the Spanish one? The thing is to everyone who got the joke, Schools Across the U.S. have to accommodate to another language. this proves that yes the cashier probably didn’t understand the 8 cent problem. This joke is so true.

By: Anonnymouse

Anonnymouse — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:07:26 +0000

I just gotta say this. I remember math back when I was just starting highschool, I remember asking my dad for help and he couldn’t. I now stand as an adult, helping my younger brother, who is at the same grade level I’m in. I help him with his homework, and I’ve found that he’s only up to math I learned back in 7th grade, rather than 10th or higher for him.

The sad truth is that the educational system (which the original joke explained and didn’t have the last part) is on a steady decline in the US. People are learning less of the world around them, kids are getting A’s and B’s for things that would’ve gotten me an F. They are graduating more and more, making a high-school education more common than toilet paper. In the school district I live in, they have omitted the constitution from history for gods sake. My brother in 10th grade doesn’t know the bill of rights! These kids are going to be the adults of tomorrow, and they are not being mentally challenged as they should, and it’ll only come back to bite us old farts in the ass!

By: Jose

Jose — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:49:43 +0000

No, Joe, it means that there are so many mexicans in the US, everything is turning to Spanish!

By: Danny Biffle

Danny Biffle — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:22:08 +0000

One time I visited Burger King and told the girl at the window that they had shorted me a “value meal” at lunch a few hours earlier. She apologized then gave me the food without charging me.

About 4 years later, I married her. When I reminded her about that day she turned me in to the police and started divorce proceedings. I was arrested, spent 5 days in jail, and had to do 8 hours of community service picking up beer bottles on the busiest corner in our town.

I will never do that again. I still can’t believe Ann divorced me over that.

By: Jasper Focker

Jasper Focker — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:10:08 +0000

Stupidity diguised as tolerance.

By: salty

salty — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:28:38 +0000

Twas not a joke —- is in fact a very sad story of decayed education in our country….
students of today are acquainted with technology, calculators and computers but sadly their brains are not analitacly cultivated…. If the machine quits or dies they are dead in the water.

The spanish/mexican ending is sadly representative of our deterioriating English only country. And thus indicates the next chapter in the slide of education as ILLEGAL imigration takes its toll of our integrity and security.

And sadly some of the comments posted are a window into this problem which could eventually slip the US of A into the status of a THIRD WORLD country. Many persons of the younger generations are not literate enough to appreciate what they enjoy or see it slipping away…
GOD BLESS AMERICA —- LOVE IT OR LEAVE……………

By: Ridiculous

Ridiculous — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 01:01:45 +0000

This is just ridiculous. Today’s students are doing harder math at a younger age. If a student in the 50s decided to go to high school (many didn’t) he’d be doing the same math that today’s student does in the 5th grade. I’m so tired of hearing crap like this.