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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">With a bit of wordsmithing, the obviously sexist joke would have been rendered gender-neutral. Would that have made it less humorous?</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Recall that, i<span>n old medicine, humor referred to "any of the four body fluids" (blood, phlegm, choler, and melancholy or black bile).</span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span>Barry H.</span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div><br></div>
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On Sunday, October 22, 2023 at 10:51:23 PM EDT, Michael Alexander via LCTG <lctg@lists.toku.us> wrote:
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<b> :-)</b><br clear="none"><br clear="none"> Mike A<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div id="ydpd77a2d7fyiv4356277794yqt76727" class="ydpd77a2d7fyiv4356277794yqt5963008892"><p style="font-size:15px;color:#715FFA;padding-top:15px;margin-top:0;" class="ydpd77a2d7fyiv4356277794yahoo-quoted-begin">On Sunday, October 22, 2023, 10:26 PM, John Rudy via LCTG <lctg@lists.toku.us> wrote:</p><blockquote class="ydpd77a2d7fyiv4356277794iosymail"><div id="ydpd77a2d7fyiv4356277794"><div><div class="ydpd77a2d7fyiv4356277794WordSection1"><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 0in; background-color: white; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-size: auto;" class="ydpd77a2d7fyiv4356277794q-text"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:#282829;">Two mathematicians are in a bar waiting on a friend. They call over the blonde bartender and tell her “we are going to have a little fun with our colleague when he gets here. We are going to ask you a question when he gets here. We are going to ask you ‘What is the integral of x dx?’ And you reply one half x squared. OK?” The blonde says “Got it. One half x squared”</span></p><p style="margin: 0in; background-color: white; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-size: auto; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;" class="ydpd77a2d7fyiv4356277794q-text"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:#282829;">So their friend arrives and they are discussing education and the one guy says “look the system is pretty good, I bet even the bartender gets Calculus. So they call over the bartender and ask her “what is the integral of x dx?” She says “that’s easy, one half x squared.” She walks away, turns back and says “plus an arbitrary constant.”</span></p><p class="ydpd77a2d7fyiv4356277794MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="ydpd77a2d7fyiv4356277794MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="ydpd77a2d7fyiv4356277794MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="ydpd77a2d7fyiv4356277794MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="ydpd77a2d7fyiv4356277794MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="ydpd77a2d7fyiv4356277794MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="ydpd77a2d7fyiv4356277794MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="ydpd77a2d7fyiv4356277794MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="ydpd77a2d7fyiv4356277794MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">John Rudy</span></p><p class="ydpd77a2d7fyiv4356277794MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="ydpd77a2d7fyiv4356277794MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">781-861-0402</span></p><p class="ydpd77a2d7fyiv4356277794MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">781-718-8334 cell</span></p><p class="ydpd77a2d7fyiv4356277794MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">13 Hawthorne Lane</span></p><p class="ydpd77a2d7fyiv4356277794MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">Bedford MA</span></p><p class="ydpd77a2d7fyiv4356277794MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;"><a shape="rect" href="mailto:jjrudy1@comcast.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">jjrudy1@comcast.net</a></span></p><p class="ydpd77a2d7fyiv4356277794MsoNormal"><img id="ydpd77a2d7fyiv4356277794Picture_x0020_1" border="0" style="width: 124px; max-width: 248px;" src="cid:kbw5zRh5xjJpssA1e6rH" data-inlineimagemanipulating="true"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;"></span></p><p class="ydpd77a2d7fyiv4356277794MsoNormal"> </p></div></div></div>===============================================<br clear="none">::The Lexington Computer and Technology Group Mailing List::<br clear="none">Reply goes to sender only; Reply All to send to list.<br clear="none">Send to the list: <a shape="rect" href="mailto:LCTG@lists.toku.us" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">LCTG@lists.toku.us</a> Message archives: <a shape="rect" href="http://lists.toku.us/pipermail/lctg-toku.us/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://lists.toku.us/pipermail/lctg-toku.us/</a><br clear="none">To subscribe: email <a shape="rect" href="mailto:lctg-subscribe@toku.us" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">lctg-subscribe@toku.us</a> To unsubscribe: email <a shape="rect" href="mailto:lctg-unsubscribe@toku.us" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">lctg-unsubscribe@toku.us</a><br clear="none">Future and Past meeting information: <a shape="rect" href="http://LCTG.toku.us" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://LCTG.toku.us</a><br clear="none">List information: <a shape="rect" href="http://lists.toku.us/listinfo.cgi/lctg-toku.us" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://lists.toku.us/listinfo.cgi/lctg-toku.us</a><br clear="none">This message was sent to <a shape="rect" href="mailto:mna.ma@yahoo.com." rel="nofollow" target="_blank">mna.ma@yahoo.com.</a><br clear="none">Set your list options: <a shape="rect" href="http://lists.toku.us/options.cgi/lctg-toku.us/mna.ma@yahoo.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://lists.toku.us/options.cgi/lctg-toku.us/mna.ma@yahoo.com</a><br clear="none"><blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></div>
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