Do the Math
July 15, 2014 There are 10 kinds of people in the world:
Those who understand binary...
;)
...and those who think this is right:
;)
(How do you pronounce that? Thirty fird? Thirty onerd?)
You know, I bet we could all use a little math review.
Don't worry, I'll start with an easy one:
Find X:
;)
FOUND IT.
See? That wasn't hard. Let's try another!
What do you get when you add 2 and 5 together?
;)
CORRECT!
Now, if A = butterfly
;)
and B also = butterfly
;)
then...
someone's getting fired.
It's all coming back to you, isn't it?
Here's a harder one:
Q: What's the Commutative Property of Addition?
;)
A: If all you're doing is adding stuff, you can add it in any order.
Name a negative number.
;)
Ah, good choice.
Word problem time!
If a train leaves Cleveland traveling at 60mph, and it looks like this:
;)
How many hours would you have to run in the opposite direction to avoid certain doom?
And finally:
Can you convert the following into decimal?
;)
Because someone really missed the point.
We did it!
I don't know about you guys, but I feel smarter already.
Exponential thanks to Cameron J., Jessica F., Ginny T., Carrie R., Allison S., Jennie R., Noelle, Abigail H., Julia S., & Laurie R. Next time, we'll prove pies are usually round, but some cakes are squared.
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Reader Comments (50)
I like the one where the "butterfly" is juggling two fried eggs, using his tiny T-Rex type fore-wings.
On the "PRATY" cake - It's such a pity that there wasn't anything around with the proper spelling to aid the wreckerator.
There are 10 types of people in this world:
Those who understand binary
Those who don't
and those who didn't expect the joke to be in base 3.
I'm plumping for thirty-fird, it rolls off the the tongue easier.
The winged poo is quite cute - if I had to choose between the two.
In the UK, the word prat means an idiot....yup!
Now to the essay question for the language arts portion of our lesson:
Why are there sliced boiled eggs (possibly sunny side up eggs) on that angry stegasaurapillar in photo nine?
The last one… the B is a butt. And cannot be unseen.
ABC by the Jackson 101
You went to school to learn stuff
Things you never ever knew before
Like when spelling some words it’s important to know
The “a” comes before “r”
Now, now, now
I’d like to teach you
Teach you, teach you
How to count past ten
This isn’t hard. Wait, you’ll see
All you gotta do is repeat after me
It’s “twenty-ten.”
There’s no “two hundren ten.”
In math you’ll be 1rd. (Say that word.)
That won’t work-try it again
Pooperflies - can’t mate with fried-eggflies
That’s just biology
Now you see
That’s how simple cakes can be
Ok ... what are those things on the side of the last one? I mean, is it supposed to look fuzzy and moldy like that?
And now after that exhausting math review, I think I’ll have a piece of pi….
Thirty-fird :-D
The snow-man faced train ( possibly decorated with gummi fried eggs ) has a nice smile.
Happy Buttday Candle!
Of course, there must be parents who named their daughter Candle, right? With all those bizarre names given to children these days…
I'm not worried about the train I will just have Sabin Suplex it for me!
Here's a woed problem for you. If you add a cupcake cake to a box of legos what do you get?
Love your "pi r square" reference!
I don't see anything wrong with the PRATY one.
"Every time I see a Math word problem it looks like this to me: If I have 10 ice cubes and you have 11 apples, how many pancakes will fit on the roof?
Answer: Purple, because aliens don't wear hats."
OK, I'm getting Happey Bwithduey on that last one. But for the life of me I can't figure out what the Finance sticker is all about... And given how illegible the rest of it is, might it actually say Carolle, instead of Candle? Although the candle reference is a massive fail all unto itself.
O_o
The Happy Birthday Mary/Sean was clearly ordered pre-op. Just making be best on a non-refundable order.
Okay, I blame my migraine. I don't get the last one at all.
A new national holiday - National Butt Day!
Think of all the slogans:
A toast to the tush!
Three cheers for the rear!
Lift a glass for the a$$!
Light a candle for the love handle! (ok...maybe not that one)
Who's with me?!
It's my Praty and I'll ryc if I want too, ryc if I want to. You would ryc too if this cake was for you! DA DA DA DA DA!!!
I actually did know a girl named Kandle once...
Beautiful beautiful
Girl from the north
You burned my heart
With a flickering torch
I had a dream that no one else could see
You gave me love for free
Candle, Candle, Candle I can't let you go
All my life you're haunting me
I loved you so
happy Bwilthday????? But it's in such pretty swirly writing and I think there's chocolate somewhere ... screw it, gimme a slice of cake!!!
Hello I would like to order a cupcake cake for my 2 yr old and my 5 yr old....what do you suggest?
Ahhh one that's a two AND a five at the same time GENIUS!! Oh and that cake I ordered for my sister,
Mary?? She's now my Brother and wants to be called Sean....can you fix that??? Perfect!!!
Also, I need a HighEnd Buttday cake with a candle on it...and I don't want to pay out the A$$ for it!
What can you show me?? AWESOME! I'll take it!!! See,its all about customer service!! Lol
I really hope Sean is a girl. Ir a dude who really likes pink. Or is having a family-only party.
Why does the first butterfly have wings coming out of its head? And why are there eggs on the wings? And why are they sunny-side up? Are they supposed to be butter-fried on a butterfly?
It's a good thing the Wreckerator with the blocks wasn't looking at the image underneath and trying to spell "soiree." Otherwise, we'd be reporting injuries.
after 35 years doing cakes, I have trained a few that could't spell but wanted to be a decorator because of the pay. It's not all its cracked up to be. Colin she just wrote birthday candle where the name should be and the decorator didn't check the order. When in doubt call the person who gave or took the order. My problem is when you order a five layer wedding cake and come to pick it up in a volkswagon bug or pick up a cake made with shortening in the iceing and go play 4 sets of tennis in 90+ degrees weather with a cake in your trunk and tell me "I" need to come fix it for free.
Thomas he's the angry one! He is just so tired of Sir Topham Hat telling him where he can go and what line he can run. Thomas has snapped, so watch out!
Is the last cake turned up on its edge? Its just all around wrong.
I think the MARY X SEAN cake indicates a transgender situation with a whole new identity. I mean.... for real, I know that makes it less funny.
Maybe Sean WAS Mary and he decided to come out as transgender on his birthday? Seems like that would be a good time to do it.
Am I the only math-o-phobe who read the praty cake as "pray"?
Colin, Financier is a string of patisseries in Manhattan. I think they started in the Wall Street area, hence the name. I'm familiar with the one in Grand Central Station where I often get a delicious pastry and iced coffee to take on the train with me.
And now I know why they usually don't have any lettering on their pastries.
"What do you get when you add 2 and 5 together?"
Trogdor.
I totally pronounced it "thirty first-erd" which just can't be right.
20,010, 31rd, and 13th... That's Numberwang!
Happy Buttuthday Candle
Who would have thought there would be more than one cake in the world decorated with fried eggs?
My version of Craig's List {Where the heck did you go?!?!?}
1rd wreck ~ Somebody found the TARDIS and brought this back to share.
2th ~ I'm going with Thirty-fird.
3nd ~ Hopefully Sean has a sense of humor!
4rd (See what I did there?) ~ It's a CCC (ptooie!). You can make it any shape you want. (As we've obviously seen before here on CW) The intentionally made it a backwards 5??? My faith in humanity just slipped a little more.
5st ~ @TLC "Butter fried on a butterfly" LOL!!!
6nd ~ The purple flower is nice...
7rd ~ I wanna have a praty!
8st ~ Hugo's 12 older siblings got him a cake. How nice of them.
9nd ~ Somebody egged poor Thomas.
10st ~ The "B" looks like a bubble letter "N". Remember those from elementary school? Anyone??? At first glance I thought the black sign thingy was condom. O.O
The PRATY cake is blocks. Blocks so you can rearrange the letters to spell words with the P, R, A, T and Y. When things get boring.
And isn't 5 the new 7?
I feel really bad for Sean. How on earth did anyone look at that cake and think 'Perfect. He'll never know we forgot his birthday and this was a last minute afterthought.' And neon green? Yeah, that blends.
Is it weird that the more I look at that train, the more endearing I find it? In a 'look, he's trying ot claw my eyes out' sort of eay, of course.
I think this is the the first time I've actually enjoyed math! In all my years, I never imagined this would happen!!
@ Jodee, I did see the bubble letter 'N', but then I realized that the 'b' looked like a bum...and just can't un-see it...
I couldn't figure out #9. Is that supposed to be Charlie the Choo-Choo, or Blaine the Mono?
Now that someone has mentioned the B in the last cake I cannot unsee it lmao. I also hope Sean enjoyed his pink cake. So much pink probably turned everyone's mouths a scary new shade of pink lipstick lol.
The train cake makes me think of Blaine the Mono from Stephen King's 'The Wastelands' ...that was one angry train!
I'm still trying to figure out how y'all are seeing a "B" in the last one. I know it's probably *meant* to say "Birthday", but all I can get is "Wilthduy".
A pepto-bismol cake with dead black roses on it.
Somebody really doesn't like MarySean. Or SeanMary either.
And what's with the eggs all around the Train of Revenge? Happy Birthday...now DIE.
Such up stuff to start the day... LOL
Okay, so it was yesterday...
Thanks, maureen. i just spit my coffee all over the desk. XD
The pink/black cake does seem intentional, I mean why would you choose sickly neon green to cover up a mistake like that lol.
I vote thirty fird!
Also, I agree the Sean Mary cake looks intentional. I'm a trans person preparing to change their name, and I think I might have to steal that idea!
This may be due to my recent colon cleanse but I believe it's thirty firsterd.