Overheard (June 2020)
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Overheard Monday 6/29/20
"A new week to be less weak at math." --- S.
"Why gray shirt again?!" --- S.
"I like drinking my hot dogs." --- K.
"I just ate a 16th of a watermelon in 20 minutes." --- A.
"Bumpy lumpy lump." --- S.
"To everyone who are speed, I am velocity." --- V.
"The opposite of gold is trash. This is the trash ratio." (Speaking about \( \frac{1}{\phi}\)) --- Prof. Loh
"It's not the trash ratio, it's the homeless ratio." --- C.
"I wrote "Pow" for "Power"! Pow!" --- Prof. Loh
"Prof. Loh uses a stylus pen with style." --- V.
"MAKE A VIDEO OF YOU EATING BANANAS." --- I.
"It's Fibonacci inside Fibonacci." --- P.
""Let's just Fibonacci our way through." --- Prof. Loh" --- D.
"A daily challenge a day keeps the virus away." --- M.
"Hmmm... I would not want to be in that car." --- M.
"That truck is actually speed." --- P.
"This magical truck... okay, it's not magical, but I think it is magical..." --- Prof. Loh
"This truck broke the speed limit... It broke the universal speed limit... It broke Einstein's speed limit. It should get a massive ticket." --- Prof. Loh
"Gets a ticket but you can't catch him." --- K.
"German highways don't even have speed limits." --- S.
"It would need a different universe." --- A.
"All the roads in the world aren't even that long." --- P.
"Your mass gets HUGE (if you go at the speed of light)." --- R.
"You would rip apart the space-time continuum." --- J.
"Fix Your Broken Calculators with Po-Shen Loh the Calculator Fixer." --- C.
"Cut, physics teacher! This is an Ask Math Anything class, not an Ask Physics Anything class!" --- V. -
@debbie I only care about the shirt comments...
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Overheard Tue 6/30/20
"[The number of minutes left on the countdown timer is] the second perfect number minus the quantity "the second perfect number divided by four."" --- M.
"Complementary counting! Oh, that's where you ask a bunch of senators to count themselves for you, and then you compliment them on their good efforts. Oh, that's a different complimentary. Spelling-wise, it's spelled different. Complementary counting means that someone else does the counting, and it's free! Ah, that's not the kind of complimentary you're talking about, is it?" --- Prof. Loh doing the Senators problem
"Let's see, how can you find all the dogs and cats in America using math? Am I supposed to find all the dogs and cats in America who know how to use math? The way I would do that is I would attempt to run a live stream covering the type of math that dogs and cats like to do, and we'll see how many of them tune in." --- Prof. Loh
"For every 3 people there is like \(\frac{1}{3}\) of a pet." --- Prof. Loh
"That's amazing! So there are like \(300\) million people in the U.S., and like \(120\) million dogs and cats." --- Prof. Loh
"Are there actually more pets than people in the U.S.? Wow, I've just learned something new!" --- Prof. Loh
"And if anyone wants to have pet bacteria, then those will outnumber us very soon. Please do not grow pet bacteria. Please do not do that at home." --- Prof. Loh
"Last Sunday I saw a person walking a guinea pig in a park." --- V.
"In Australia there are more kangaroos than people." --- V.
"I just like killing bugs, of the computer variant." --- T."[On "What if it literally rained cats and dogs?"] If it were raining cats and dogs, then it would probably also be raining TVs, dishes, refrigerators, etc. because that means there would have to be a tornado." --- Prof. Loh
"The first time I saw a spider on a book, I nearly threw the book in the trash can, no lie, no lie." --- S.
"I'm bad at math; what's the point of listening to Prof. Loh if I can't understand?" --- C.
"To learn about bananas, lumps, and art." --- H. -
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@debbie
The one about a guinea pig being walked in a park (I did that), it is actually true.
I got such a surprise.
I was like that:
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@debbie Where is the new overheard post for today?
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@CoherentMango Wow you are so observant!!
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@debbie It's totally fine, I was just curious
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@The-Rogue-Blade
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Lol $$$$
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THE FINAL COUNTDOWN!!!
