the "10 dogs with spots" theory...

i'm not going to lie to you, i am not good at math. while i quite fondly recall saying, "when the hell am i ever going to use this stuff?" in high school (and now realizing that i got to the ripe old age of 29 without actually using most of it), i did struggle.

today i got this in an email:

which made me laugh so hard because i am quite confident that i actually put this on an assignment in mr. eaton's legendary grade 10 math class. the class where the same kid was sent EVERY DAY to the office accompanied by the entire class singing "na na na nah, na na na nah, hey hey hey, good bye!" the same class where ashley and i were allowed to write our tests together because our combined efforts were still hit-or-miss on a passing grade. the very class where the "10 dogs with spots" theory was born. allow me to explain.

mr. eaton posed the question: 10x - x = ?

now, the correct answer is 9x. mine and ashley's answer was 10. our explanation? if you have 10 dogs with spots, and you take away the spots, you still have 10 dogs. made sense to us. i think mr. eaton thought we'd make great trailer park wives one day.

are you rotting inside?

tv has no shame. not that it did before but my god. i just flipped past an infomercial discussing how our digestive systems are rotting and that is why our farts and breath smell so bad. no, i'm not kidding. as i type this, they are now discussing the size, consistency, and formation of bowel movements. the visual of a loaf surfing through the g.i. tract was especially pleasing.

yesterday, i attended a session on bill 51 at the oakville convention centre. nice place, good session, lots of important info, go to see some ex-OMB staffers and catch up. it was good. the drive home, not so good. it took 6.75 hours to get home. it took only an hour and twenty minutes to get there, and that was during morning rush hour. people were running out of gas and just abandoning their cars in the middle of lanes. it was horrendous, ridiculous, and road cleaning crews from halton/peel region need to take some lessons from york region. 'nuff said.