Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for May 02, 2024

But in school, the numbers never hit back.

These numbers are deceptive. They don’t look like it, but actually they are irrational.

There are I0 types of people in the world: those who understand binary numbers and those who don’t.

There are II types of people in the world: those who understand Roman numerals and those who don’t.

I belong to that third group, as well.

I belonged to those who aren’t especially when it came to algebra, geometry, and trigonometry. Thankfully, my high school closed before I could take calculus in my senior year.

There is three types of peoples, me friend. One who has guns and one who digs. The third one is occupies the unnamed grave.

If you didn’t learn to do simple arithmetic, you can potentially be cheated in every financial transaction you make for the rest of your life. Most people won’t take advantage of you, but some will, and when they get away with it, they’ll do it again and again.

Reminds me of an old joke, a HS had an alumni day and a math teacher ran into one of his old students. He said to him, “I’m surprised you did so well with your business, you were one of my worst students.” The former student replied, “I got lucky, I was able to make a widget for $1 and sell it for $1.50 and after a while that 10% really adds up!”

How many digits is he holding up?

Number Two: “Hey, Number One, he’s giving you the fingers!”

Number Three: “I’ll make him eat that insult! Right up to the nines!”

The Nines: “Hey! What did we do?”

Are Pam and Brewster going to go the whole 9 yards?

Sure enough, you can’t count on Brewster.

There are 2 types of people:

the ones who are good with math,

the ones who are good with language,

and the ones what ain’t good with neither.

The groups of polymaths?

Time to do a number on them.

I’ve seen that joke going around Facebook. Might have been on MeWe as well.

Four out of three ppl can’t do fractions

There are cartoonist that are good at continuity and there are those who forget that Brewster was once smart.

See “Pearls Before Swine”- 1/19/2009.