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True Dough

(27,298 posts) Thu Jul 11, 2024, 10:25 PM Jul 2024

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A joke for the geometry buff...

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A joke for the geometry buff... (Original Post) True Dough Jul 2024 OP

Okay that got a chuckle out of me padah513 Jul 2024 #1

You're positively radius! True Dough Jul 2024 #4

Positively radiant is how Mr. Currie described applegrove Jul 2024 #9

Huh? darkvader Jul 2024 #2

This a first for me True Dough Jul 2024 #5

There you go, darkvader! True Dough Jul 2024 #14

That one has a good angle for sure. chouchou Jul 2024 #3

It took me a second to get it. I'm not obtuse. applegrove Jul 2024 #6

How True Dough Jul 2024 #7

Where's the proof? applegrove Jul 2024 #8

Squarely in the center. 2naSalit Jul 2024 #10

The degree to which you'll go is pointed. applegrove Jul 2024 #12

It was a... 2naSalit Jul 2024 #15

That's an old line. applegrove Jul 2024 #16

Gah! 2naSalit Jul 2024 #17

Oh. I did not notice. Thanks. applegrove Jul 2024 #18

Is that a theorem or are you postulating something incongruent? wnylib Jul 2024 #21

Nice dvan Jul 2024 #11

Okay, what's your angle? MLAA Jul 2024 #13

Not to go on a tangent, but as I was reading your post in my rhombus room, I thought it acute and started... LudwigPastorius Jul 2024 #19

And you True Dough Jul 2024 #20

And thus, Sir Cumference, do I bequeath thee this land... Aristus Jul 2024 #22

Close enough to fit here as well... True Dough Sep 2024 #23

Not Funny, Because It Employs Circular Logic ProfessorGAC Sep 2024 #24

And we all know circular logic is problematic! True Dough Sep 2024 #25

This Thread Turned Out Great ProfessorGAC Sep 2024 #27

You're forgetting the lesson True Dough Sep 2024 #29

Haha! Do they still use those in math classes today? sinkingfeeling Sep 2024 #26

They Sure Do! ProfessorGAC Sep 2024 #28

I guess I'm against this kind of farming. Intractable Sep 2024 #30

Then shouldn't your DU screen name True Dough Sep 2024 #31

padah513

(2,711 posts)

1. Okay that got a chuckle out of me

Reply to True Dough (Original post)

Thu Jul 11, 2024, 10:27 PM

Jul 2024

True Dough

(27,298 posts)

4. You're positively radius!

Reply to padah513 (Reply #1)

Thu Jul 11, 2024, 10:31 PM

Jul 2024

I mean radiant!

applegrove

(133,059 posts)

9. Positively radiant is how Mr. Currie described

Reply to True Dough (Reply #4)

Thu Jul 11, 2024, 10:42 PM

Jul 2024

his wife Marie Currie.

darkvader

(2 posts)

2. Huh?

Reply to True Dough (Original post)

Thu Jul 11, 2024, 10:31 PM

Jul 2024

Duh......PRO-tractor!

True Dough

(27,298 posts)

5. This a first for me

Reply to darkvader (Reply #2)

Thu Jul 11, 2024, 10:32 PM

Jul 2024

and a first for you! Your premier post on the DU (welcome to da club) and I elicited a "Huh?" from you! It can only get better from here!

True Dough

(27,298 posts)

14. There you go, darkvader!

Reply to darkvader (Reply #2)

Thu Jul 11, 2024, 11:28 PM

Jul 2024

You stuck with it and you got it!

We'll see you back here for Typing Trivia night. Many happy returns!

chouchou

(3,300 posts)

3. That one has a good angle for sure.

Reply to True Dough (Original post)

Thu Jul 11, 2024, 10:31 PM

Jul 2024

applegrove

(133,059 posts)

6. It took me a second to get it. I'm not obtuse.

Reply to True Dough (Original post)

Thu Jul 11, 2024, 10:35 PM

Jul 2024

True Dough

(27,298 posts)

7. How

Reply to applegrove (Reply #6)

Thu Jul 11, 2024, 10:39 PM

Jul 2024

acute!

applegrove

(133,059 posts)

8. Where's the proof?

Reply to True Dough (Reply #7)

Thu Jul 11, 2024, 10:41 PM

Jul 2024

2naSalit

(103,806 posts)

10. Squarely in the center.

Reply to applegrove (Reply #8)

Thu Jul 11, 2024, 11:07 PM

Jul 2024

applegrove

(133,059 posts)

12. The degree to which you'll go is pointed.

Reply to 2naSalit (Reply #10)

Thu Jul 11, 2024, 11:13 PM

Jul 2024

2naSalit

(103,806 posts)

15. It was a...

Reply to applegrove (Reply #12)

Thu Jul 11, 2024, 11:51 PM

Jul 2024

Hard angle but that's the point!

applegrove

(133,059 posts)

16. That's an old line.

Reply to 2naSalit (Reply #15)

Thu Jul 11, 2024, 11:53 PM

Jul 2024

2naSalit

(103,806 posts)

17. Gah!

Reply to applegrove (Reply #16)

Fri Jul 12, 2024, 12:05 AM

Jul 2024

And congrats on 120K!

applegrove

(133,059 posts)

18. Oh. I did not notice. Thanks.

Reply to 2naSalit (Reply #17)

Fri Jul 12, 2024, 12:12 AM

Jul 2024

wnylib

(26,452 posts)

21. Is that a theorem or are you postulating something incongruent?

Reply to 2naSalit (Reply #10)

Fri Jul 12, 2024, 07:33 AM

Jul 2024

dvan

(84 posts)

11. Nice

Reply to True Dough (Original post)

Thu Jul 11, 2024, 11:08 PM

Jul 2024

MLAA

(19,800 posts)

13. Okay, what's your angle?

Reply to True Dough (Original post)

Thu Jul 11, 2024, 11:24 PM

Jul 2024

LudwigPastorius

(14,994 posts)

19. Not to go on a tangent, but as I was reading your post in my rhombus room, I thought it acute and started...

Reply to True Dough (Original post)

Fri Jul 12, 2024, 12:32 AM

Jul 2024

laughing to a degree that when my girlfriend asked me what was so funny, I couldn't answer.

She thought I was just being obtuse and got mad. (Now I'll never get her to cosine for that loan I need.)

True Dough

(27,298 posts)

20. And you

Reply to LudwigPastorius (Reply #19)

Fri Jul 12, 2024, 05:19 AM

Jul 2024

are the one who this thread is devoted to!

Aristus

(72,515 posts)

22. And thus, Sir Cumference, do I bequeath thee this land...

Reply to True Dough (Original post)

Fri Jul 12, 2024, 11:08 AM

Jul 2024

n/t

True Dough

(27,298 posts)

23. Close enough to fit here as well...

Reply to True Dough (Original post)

Sun Sep 1, 2024, 01:13 PM

Sep 2024

ProfessorGAC

(77,268 posts)

24. Not Funny, Because It Employs Circular Logic

Reply to True Dough (Original post)

Mon Sep 2, 2024, 06:03 PM

Sep 2024

True Dough

(27,298 posts)

25. And we all know circular logic is problematic!

Reply to ProfessorGAC (Reply #24)

Mon Sep 2, 2024, 06:09 PM

Sep 2024

ProfessorGAC

(77,268 posts)

27. This Thread Turned Out Great

Reply to True Dough (Reply #25)

Mon Sep 2, 2024, 06:33 PM

Sep 2024

Well, if you're a square

True Dough

(27,298 posts)

29. You're forgetting the lesson

Reply to ProfessorGAC (Reply #27)

Mon Sep 2, 2024, 08:12 PM

Sep 2024

taught by Huey Lewis and the News:

sinkingfeeling

(58,032 posts)

26. Haha! Do they still use those in math classes today?

Reply to True Dough (Original post)

Mon Sep 2, 2024, 06:31 PM

Sep 2024

ProfessorGAC

(77,268 posts)

28. They Sure Do!

Reply to sinkingfeeling (Reply #26)

Mon Sep 2, 2024, 06:35 PM

Sep 2024

7th & 8th graders both work on angles & the compliments/supplements.
I see it in nearly every school in which I sub.

Intractable

(2,382 posts)

30. I guess I'm against this kind of farming.

Reply to True Dough (Original post)

Mon Sep 2, 2024, 10:33 PM

Sep 2024

I've worked as a contractor.

True Dough

(27,298 posts)

31. Then shouldn't your DU screen name

Reply to Intractable (Reply #30)

Mon Sep 2, 2024, 10:40 PM

Sep 2024

be in-tractor-able?

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