Free Range by Bill Whitehead for November 21, 2024

She’s out buying “{P}avé” diamonds.

I had no idea that Maria could be reduced to equations.

For a long time, I kept reading it as “solve .. Malaria.” I couldn’t think of what tie there was between malaria and The Sound of Music.

Maria is actually the code name for a nuclear bomb.

Maria was Nun the Wiser.

Eh? Un dos tres, she the best mathemateecian Maria?

Ehh, just another Sister Act.

If the only ladder they have is that short stepladder, they must have had the flying nun in there to write at the top of the blackboard.

People cannot be “solved” mathematically.

Nun of these equations will help.

Someone said Maria could “throw a whirling dervish out of whirl.” Funny.

“No luck so far?”

“Nun.”

Figures!

Nah it’s easy just Climb Every Mountain.

Maybe this Maria was in West Side Story.

how to you make her stay??

Maybe she’ll respond to the sound of music.

Worked the problem on the board. The answer is “2.”

The hills are alive with the sound of fingernails on a blackboard.

wow… that’s a whirling dervish of a problem there!