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by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Fri Jan 11th, 2008 at 05:04:00 AM EST
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The two gentlemen at the end were having a distracting conversation about integrals over a surface for some reason or the other.
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Fri Jan 11th, 2008 at 05:05:44 AM EST
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It takes a mathematician to get distracted by eavesdropping a conversation about surface integrals :-)

We have met the enemy, and he is us — Pogo
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Jan 11th, 2008 at 05:08:36 AM EST
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Two mathematicians is worse, because then they're both distracted.
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Fri Jan 11th, 2008 at 05:13:10 AM EST
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Then you can just politely ask to join the conversation :-)

We have met the enemy, and he is us — Pogo
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Jan 11th, 2008 at 05:47:16 AM EST
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No...we just ended up distracting them when they started to get an inkling that the 2 weirdoes at the window table might understand what they were talking about...and probably began to wonder why there were possibly 2 other people in an icecream cafe who understood what they were arguing over. Quite funny really...sort of Gary Larsonish...

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. Oscar Wilde
by Sam on Fri Jan 11th, 2008 at 07:43:13 AM EST
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