Overheard (July 2020)
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Overheard from the Thursday 7/2/20 live stream
(Noticing that Prof. Loh wore a yellow shirt today:)
"Did you guys realize that the shirt is the banana peel and he is the banana inside?" --- T.
"....It doesn't smell like bananas..." --- Prof. Loh (when asked if his shirt was made of bananas)""These two problems have a very similar flavor." --- Prof. Loh" --- E.
"Did you guys know that potassium in bananas causes a neurochemical reaction in your brain cells that makes you better at math? The potassium triggers certain neurons in your brain. (jk)" --- M.
""20TU (pronounced "twenty tee-you") --- Prof. Loh's tongue twister of the day!" --- V.
""Bogus," -- Po-Shen Loh, 2020" --- C.
"Looks like a triangular lump." --- S.
"Why are you doing math in the bathroom anyway?" --- X. (In response to a calculator-that-fell-in-the-toilet problem)
"The square root of something disgusting." --- Prof. Loh (regarding the quadratic formula)
"Oh, you know what? I think I see a way to simplif--- Oh no, I don't." --- Po-Shen Loh" --- I.
"Is this what you guys do in school? This is apparently what everyone does in school." --- Prof. Loh (In response to the question about not getting caught while using Facebook or Instagram during class.)
"Does anybody use talking to someone else physically?" --- T. (Regarding different forms of social media communication.)
"You go to a store and buy passion fruits." --- C. (In answer to the question, "How do you find passion?")
"Blurpleplepelpel" --- A.
"Purplue." --- U.
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@debbie said in Overheard (July 2020):
(Noticing that Prof. Loh wore a yellow shirt today:)
"Did you guys realize that the shirt is the banana peel and he is the banana inside?" --- T.
"....It doesn't smell like bananas..." --- Prof. Loh (when asked if his shirt was made of bananas)
"Did you guys know that potassium in bananas causes a neurochemical reaction in your brain cells that makes you better at math? The potassium triggers certain neurons in your brain. (jk)" --- M."Oh, you know what? I think I see a way to simplif--- Oh no, I don't." --- Po-Shen Loh" --- I.
"Is this what you guys do in school? This is apparently what everyone does in school." --- Prof. Loh (In response to the question about not getting caught while using Facebook or Instagram during class.)
HE WORE A YELLOW SHIRT! ADD SOME BLUE AND ITS THE GREEN SHIRT!
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Overheard from the Friday, 7/3/20 live stream
"You're doing this on purpose..." --- J. (When Prof. Loh tried to pass off \(225\) km as the answer)
"Bob the snail goes at \(0\) km per hour. Oh, not snails. I know what I want. Bob the sloth. Do you know what sloths do? Sloths are really slow." --- Prof. Loh
"Bob the banana." --- X.
"If Prof. Loh is looking over-excited, it is either that he already solved a super hard problems, or that is pulling our leg." --- V.
"I can travel 0 km in 0 seconds." --- P.
"Oops I dropped my snail in the toilet and it mutated into a giant snail that goes at a speed of \(24\) mph." --- S.
""SHMICK ZAT LICK BUTTON!" --- E. F. 2020" --- T.
""Eyebrow lift" --- Po-Shen Loh, 2020" --- K.
""You need to un it." --- Po-Shen Loh, 2020" --- I.
""Unreciprocal it!" --- Prof. Loh adds a new word to the dictionary." --- V.
"NEW WORD -- "Unning," invented by Po-Shen Loh." --- J.
" Nehs-Op htiw gnihtyna htam ksA - The reciprocal of the title." --- T.
"It's the broken calculator apocalypse." --- Y.
"Guys, end calculator abuse." --- T.
"Ya can't argue with a suicidal calculator!" --- K.
"Y U MURDER DAT CALC" --- K.
"Things with CPUs matter!" --- T.
"CLM = Calculator Loathes Me" --- P.
"#IfYouHaveToBreakACalculatorUseACalculatorAppInstead" --- T.
"SAVE THE REMAINING CALCULATORS" --- E.
"Everybody's saying "broken calculator," so I get my name highlighted in red a lot." -- Broken Calculator
"CDHL Calculators Don't Have Lives" --- E.
"#ALotOfLivesMatterIncludingCalculatorsToastersAndRefrigerators" --- T.
"The calculator graveyard is full, no more killing calculators." --- T.
"Calculators WILL fight." --- Broken Calculator -
@debbie what about the weekend livestream?
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@RZ923 I will put Saturday's quotes in tonight.
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Overheard from the Saturday, 7/4/20 live stream
"Poor "x" -- always lost..." --- P.
"Light doesn't travel. It's a perturbation of neighboring particles giving the illusion of movement. It's taught wrongly." --- J.
"Bananas smell really bad in the car." --- D.
"War is fun until you learn an actual card game." --- E.
"Black Magic sounds sketchy..." --- Y. (Referring to the company that makes professional video recording equipment and video editing software, some of which Prof. Loh uses)
"We sometimes sneak a bit of Calculus at the AMA too..." --- S. (In answer to the question, "When should one start learning calculus?")
"You like to move it move it?" --- M. (During Prof. Loh's answer to the question, "Do you like to move?")
"100th anniversary of Prof. Loh's house." --- C.
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Overheard from the Monday 7/6/20 live stream
"BTW I just came from a virtual math circle and I'm very tempted to give my homework to Prof. Po but will not do that." --- M.
"Petition to rename livestream Ask Banana Anything." --- W.
"ASK BANANAS ANYTHING." --- J.
"ABA = Ask Banana Anything." --- M.
"Ask Farmer Po Anything." --- S."This is an i n t e r e s t i n g cream-colored shirt." --- H.
"I'm loving this." --- V.
"What?! I didn't know that bananas are clones." --- B.
"Prof. Loh is the equal of Yoda but in math." --- B.
"Me feels smart." --- C.
"If you go to National MATHCOUNTS, you get to come back with a nice TI calculator. They give all the contestants a nice graphing calculator. I guess that's why they do allow calculators on the Target Round. I mean, it would be weird if you go to a competition that doesn't allow calculators and they give you a calculator." --- Prof. Loh
"Good job, you have won a calculator that you can't ever use in this competition!" --- P.
On QWERTY calculators:
"It's literally a phone." --- B.
"A thicc phone without the coolness." --- K.""Ancient bits of history." --- Prof. Loh regarding TI-92 (from 1996 (which is not so ancient))" --- V.
""Cuz it was 1996." --- Prof. Loh, 2020" --- S.
""I can still add to 20." --- Prof. Loh, 2020" --- P.
"Googleplexian plus 1." --- P. (On the biggest number you can write down.)
"Googolplex factorialed googolplex times is VERY big." --- T."Imagine 9 is laughing at 8 for being smaller and then 8 falls over to turn into infinity." --- A.
"Get your Lohmobile today for \(\$ 9^{9^{9^{9^{9^{9^{9^{9}}}}}}}\)" --- I.
"Have a cookie!
" --- H.
"You should say, "Have a banana!"" --- C.
"The absolute value of prof Po is Prof po." --- M.
"All over 2!!! That's what it says in the quadratic formula song!!" --- M.
"Fun z time! (z = complex number)." --- V.
"Po-Shen Loh, 2020 quarantine: "I don't use calculators anymore."" --- L.
"It work under 2 if you bend space time!" --- A.
"Hopefully that person doesn't get annoyed... You know, there are people out there who just like to press the knight's tour phone number..." --- Prof. Loh, referring to the solution of the Knight's Tour question as a valid phone number
"Plot twist: That's my phone number." --- A.
"There is 1 minute left. What happens if I propose a JMO problem for Po-Shen Loh to do?" --- M.
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@debbie said in Overheard (July 2020):
Overheard from the Monday 7/6/20 live stream
"BTW I just came from a virtual math circle and I'm very tempted to give my homework to Prof. Po but will not do that." --- M.
"ASK BANANAS ANYTHING." --- J.
"If you go to National MATHCOUNTS, you get to come back with a nice TI calculator. They give all the contestants a nice graphing calculator. I guess that's why they do allow calculators on the Target Round. I mean, it would be weird if you go to a competition that doesn't allow calculators and they give you a calculator." --- Prof. Loh
"Good job, you have won a calculator that you can't ever use in this competition!" --- P.
"Googleplexian plus 1." --- P. (On the biggest number you can write down.)
"Googolplex factorialed googolplex times is VERY big." --- T.
"Imagine 9 is laughing at 8 for being smaller and then 8 falls over to turn into infinity." --- A."Get your Lohmobile today for \(\$ 9^{9^{9^{9^{9^{9^{9^{9}}}}}}}\)" --- I.
"Po-Shen Loh, 2020 quarantine: "I don't use calculators anymore."" --- L.
"There is 1 minute left. What happens if I propose a JMO problem for Po-Shen Loh to do?" --- M. -
Problem from E. W. "There is a number composed of 94 nines. There is also a number with 94 sevens. When you multiply these two numbers, what is the digit sum?"
"Wow! Who wants to do this by just multiplying? Let's go and multiply, let's write a BIG thing and multiply, anyone want to join me?" -Prof. Loh (with lots of excited arm gestures)
haha
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Prof. Loh: \(\infty+\infty=\infty\), and if you subtract infinity from both sides, \(\infty=0\). "Don't try this at home"
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We should make a math server on Discord. And then I can invite everyone to my server. oooh I can smell the profits coming in
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Lolololol
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lol $$$$
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If you're in, I'm in. Master server builder here @Potato2017 you've seen my servers
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@The-Rogue-Blade Yup
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Ok if you guys give the go ahead I'm starting in a few days
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I don't use discord.
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Overheard from the Wednesday 7/8/20 live stream
"Hello! Bananas, broken calculators, mobius bread and questions regarding the color of t-shirts await you in this live stream!" --- X.
"Keyboards DO NOT taste good." --- T.
"Late by 24 hours and 10 seconds." --- S. (After not knowing that the live stream schedule changed)
"Remember when he had live streams every day..." --- P.
"There was a time in my life when I also was afraid that I would get sucked up by a vacuum cleaner..." --- Prof. Loh, musing about vacuum cleaners
"Humans are too fat to get sucked in." --- B. (musing about Prof. Loh musing about getting sucked up by a vacuum)
"A vacuum cleaner cleans vacuums." --- C.
"Lightning bolt = 21 gigawatts." --- L.
"The final reason why kids should do chores is that it gives them other things to do than play video games and watch TV." --- P.
"Lasers can trick cats in vacuum cleaners." --- A. (The vacuum cleaner discussion gets serious.)
"Vacuum cleaners scare cats, and cats scare some humans, so therefore vacuum cleaners scare humans." --- T.
"Welcome to Ask Physics Anything! I'm your host, Po-Shen Loh, and I only know math, so now let's see if I can answer a physics question." --- Prof. Loh
"And then you have to yell at the cat to go away... actually, you don't have to do that, because the vacuum makes the cat go away." --- Prof. Loh
"I once heard that if you put your lightbulb in your mouth, you'll never pull it out again." --- M.
"Human vs. vacuum." --- Prof. Loh, doing a serious calculation
""Big motion of machines." --- Prof. Loh, 2020" --- T.
"AMA = Ask MOP Anything." --- K.
"SFFT = Simon's Fattest Fat Chicken." --- W. (Regarding Simon's Favorite Factoring Trick)
"SFFT = Simon's Favorite Fat Turkey." --- W."Does anyone know if dogs can eat onions? ik it's random but it's important." --- D.
"We need PFFT = Po's Favorite Factoring Trick." --- M.
"Did you guys know that giraffes have really long tongues and sometimes use their tongues to clean their ears!" --- M.
""So it's like bigly negative! Bigly. Bigly is a word now." --- Po-Shen Loh, 2020" --- M.
"It's better than 'hugely.'" --- E.""No, it's too pretty." --- Prof. Loh, 2020" --- W.
"In the same way, you can get better at non-math if you have a math background." --- Prof. Loh (In response to the question, "How to improve in math from being a non-math background?")
"Um.... sorry, I was eating a banana. What was this?" --- I.
""What kind of nonsense question is this?!?" --- Po-Shen Loh, 2020" --- F.
"Proof that Po-Shen Loh is a minion: He likes bananas (and so do minions), he wears yellow (and so guess what else is yellow? That's right! Minions!), and he wears glasses (one step away from goggles)." --- A.
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I would quote you on some of these, but these are all really really funny
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Prof. Loh did an AMC 8 2015 Problem 25 in the live stream today (he did this sometime in May too).
"Prof has bad memory" ---M.
