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Well, duh, Sturm-<strike>Abteilung</strike>Liouville theory.

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Steer clear of the Lord of Rings.

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Fish?

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Mmm, I used to know what a cubic was.

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Al Cohol.

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Isn't that just the chat pages at conservapedia, every day?

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They don't have The Math any more.

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And don't forget, allowing right wing nutjobs to speak is right-wing-nutjob-<a href="http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2013\/01\/08\/glenn-beck-piers-morgan-making-gun-advocates-look-crazy\/" target="_blank">libel!</a>!!one!

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I suppose the disconnected kind of conic section <em>does</em> have asymptotic limits.

No need to use calculus to get to hyperbolae though, geometry is perfectly adequate.

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But the South used to love itself some differentiation, and would like to get back to it.

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What are the properties of left(ist) angles?

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Bisecting. The word is <em>bi</em>secting.

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Ever considered trying a cubic?

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Just wait till they hear that colleges teach mathematical ANALysis

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I feel compelled to point out, Bolling was complaining about a <em>5th Grade</em> piece of perfectly unremarkable math.

Where's Jeff Foxworthy when you <strike>need him</strike> might have something vaguely approximating a use for him?

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Texas has ways of shutting that whole thing down.

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