Monday, September 26, 2011

Einstein & football

Saturday’s offering by Peter Brookes, political cartoonist to the Times-reading classes, showed David-Cameron-as-Einstein, wild of hair, tieless & wearing a v-neck pullover in Lib Dem yellow adorned by a badge proclaiming E=mc3, finger wagging as he proclaims that Our ‘Plan A’ Theory Is Total Genius!

Behind him is a blackboard covered with mathematical squiggles. Careful inspection reveals some disguised daydreams.
QPR 4 Chelsea 0
QPR 6 Villa 0
Arsenal 1 QPR 5
QPR 3 Man U 1
QPR 2 Mega 0


Is Peter Brookes a secret fan of the club which is newly promoted to the Premier League or this is just another way of telling Cameron to Dream On?

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My best friend at school was guaranteed a mark of at least 3% in geometry exams, so long as she spelled her name correctly, put the right date at the top of the paper & wrote her answers neatly.

Her most bitter complaint about the unfairness of it all was that, although she learned the theorems off by heart & could cope with the teacher trying to catch her out by labelling ∆ABC as ∆PQR, they would then fight dirty by rotating the triangle in question, turning it upside down, or changing the ordering of the letters to make it ∆QPR.

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