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Basic Algebra
FOUND by Ellen Kokontis
in Galesburg, Illinois
This was the only copy of this sign hanging up around the Knox College campus. I felt a little bad taking it down, so I scanned it, then put it back. I hope he got his pants back.
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Ellen, you are a very good girl for replacing that sign! How very odd that it was just hanging up somewhere on campus, rather than like.. in their dorm or something.. presumably the slacks stealer knows the guy who wrote it.. maybe he took the pants and was never seen or heard from again.
I do think this is more of a 2nd grade story problem than an Algebra problem.
Give this some thought if you have to question the answer to 4-3 you probably are retarded and have lost your own pants .....dumb ass! P.s go shopping you need more than 4 pairs of pants anyways.
all that to say.....YOU STOLE MY DRAWS BIOTCH
wait. let me get this straight. are they pants? slacks? draws? trousers? It's so very important... especially if they're missing and he has to go pants-less. (bad defense, by the way. judge won't like that one.)
Haha, this belongs on passiveaggressivenotes.com too. If the sign-writer knows that Roger is the thief, why doesn't s/he just confront him directly instead of communicating through signage?
I so hope a woman made this sign and left it in public as a sweet inside joke for her lover. I was thinking earlier this evening about how sad it is when people graduate (or even leave for the summer) and disappear from our lives, sometimes forever. We have rituals for many types of loss, but not for this. It hurts just the same. It makes you want to ask for those pants back that you had such a great time ruining together.
If you only have four pares of pants how long would it take you to notice you were missing one?
If Roger takes a bus ride with four pairs of pants at 60 mph to spend an evening at the Pants-Off-Dance-Off, how many pairs of pants will Roger have by the following morning?
That Roger! Why, he stole a pair of my pants just last week…
He got through 2 semesters with only 4 pairs of pants?
How did it take them so long to realize someone stole a quarter of their pants supply? And why didn't they just tell them directly? Or maybe is the "Roger" a reference to something...?
i've lost panties before, but never pants.
Clearly this guy is having some sort of a breakdown... ("I want my two dollars!") And since he allready 'left' should Roger Fed Ex him some pants?
This is just pants
http://www.worldwidewords.org/topicalwords/tw-
Since my husband's name is Roger, I am going to prin this out and leave it in random places. If it was his choice, he'd only have 4 pairs of pants: one dress, two casual and one jeans. But since I'm not going to do laundry every day, he has more. He hasn't stolen any pairs from anyone, to my knowledge. But you never know what he's really doing when he says he's going to work. Hmmmmmm.
Okay let me get this straight. He arrived in fall with FOUR pairs of pants and left in the spring with THREE pairs of pants, right? So why does the little math problem at the bottom say 4 - 3? Shouldn't it say 4 - 1?
Maybe this is a meeting girls/free pants scam. Post this all over campus, chicks feel bad for him ("he only had 4 pants and someone stole one, poor guy") and bring him pants and maybe a little companionship. Bonus: he gets to needle Roger, his nemesis, who is going to have people coming up to him the whole next semester saying "Why would you steal another guy's pants?" Brilliant. There is more to this story than just pants.
Funny! But kind of a wimpy way to demand your pants back. Wonder why the writer didn't hunt Robert down and confront him face to face? Or sneak in Robert's place and take them back. If I had somebody's pants and saw a note like this I'd just laugh.
WAIT a minute!
"Pants" or "SLACKS ?!"
He had better be specific, as there IS a BIIIIIG difference.
I bet Roger was confused.
Roger is such a slacker.
Maybe he stole his lucky date pants and now he is dateless and pantless while Roger reaps the benefits.. er.. yeah.
Looks like Salt is missing a pair of pants.
Johnathan, you are a wealth of useless websites. I love it.
If I wrote that it would read: Roger, you owe me one pair of slacks, an iced coffee, and a gift certificate for $25 to Olive Garden.
If someone takes your pants, you collect interest on that bitch.
I did not know that pants are not actually pants in England. Or, from the English point of view, pants are not actually pants in America. Gee, sometimes we are not speaking the language we think we are speaking, are we? Merci, Jonathan!
ROFL! This girl stole my lavender doc johnson watervibe once; maybe I should have posted a sign?
I smell a new spam protection question.
I have lost my underwear
I dont care
I'll go bare
bye bye longjohns
They were very good to me
Tickled me
Hee hee hee
bye bye longjohns....
an old camp song my friend the camp counsellor sings....
This find is the pants.
To the author of this note, I think it's time you moved on. Obviously these britches were more important to Roger since you managed to make it a year without them and Roger couldn't find the strength to return them. I think if you search the sales racks you could easily find a replacement pair for your Thursday/Sunday rotation.
"You're invited to my pant's party."
Bring back my britches, bitches!
That Roger, always getting into EVERYBODYS pants!!!
That's fabulous, someone should send it to passiveaggressivenotes.com!
guess he scared the pants off his roommate.
ba-da-bum-ching!
Rube, I loved that movie!
Tori, if he's trying to figure out how many pairs are missing, then the math is correct.
Y'know, I often find other ppl's "pants" (in the British sense) in my laundry -- gotta love apartment life! Just last night a hot-pink flowery thong found its way into our load of clothes...maybe Roger's not at fault after all, and his former roommate's got some 'splainin to do! (And yes, we returned the hideous flowered thing to the laundry room. I ain't about stealin' other people's draws.)
poor guy, now girls can only get into his pants 3/4 of the time...the rest is up to him ;0)
Well it seems to me like Rogers might be stealing a wearing his girl friends pants, which isn’t bad because I were my girl friends pants. Some people absolutely hate seeing guys wearing girls pants but whatever. Apparently the person who wrote the note doesn’t know how to do math, because if the notes says “ I came here in the fall of 2005 with four pairs of pants” and “ I left in the spring of 2006 with three pairs of pants” the equation would not be 4-3 because 4-3=1 and whoever wrote the note did not leave with one pair of slacks. The correct equation should be 4-1 because 4-1=3.
PANT RANT: Seriously, If it was me, I would not be making such a big deal of this. Clothes are just pieces of cloth stitched together. It's not the end of the world. It all depends on how much money the pants are worth I guess. This is why it's just plain stupid to spend lots of money on fancy clothes.
I buy all my clothes on sale at Target, Goodwill, or Kohl's and if the pants are more than a couple of months old, I could really care less if someone swiped them, because Roger obviously needs them more than the other guy. It is better to give than to covet ones pants. Why should some have so many pants while other should have so few pants? It just isn't fair. And to be honest, I wouldn't want them back after someone named Roger wore them. People who spend lots of money on designer jeans and expensive namebrand clothing should all be rounded up, stripped, and forced to wear potato sacks. Then just maybe they will learn that ones physical appearance means very little, and it's what's in here that matters (points to heart). This guy needs to learn to share. I would give someone the shirt off my back. He should stop being such a prick.
There's a party in my pants, and everyone's coming.
It's clearly to an ex gay lover.
how petty. roger is better off without this kind of scheister for a friend.
Offspring the Younger by 8 Minutes,(you know who you are) you should send this find to Paul.
I think that these two guys got into a fight which ended up in one guy named Roger, destroying his friend's slacks and now his friend has stormed out and sent him a hate note.
4-3=? sounds like one of the spam filter questions found asks...
Who survives with only 4 pairs of pants for 2 years??? All the washing and wearing repeatedly would make the seat wear out!
Dear 4-3=?,
It's just a pair of pants. You should be the bigger person. Going around posting signs to Roger, in your "it's not about the pants, it's about the principle" way, doesn't make you look superior, it makes you look like a douche nozzle.
Your BFF,
terrieissovery
Douche nozzle? LOL! I gotta remember that one.
I've got a party in my pants!
i've got one hand in my pocket, it is politically incorrect to say "scheister," it's what the Germans used to call the Jews during the Holocaust. It means shitter. My jewish friend ripped me a new one when I used that word.
How come slackers never wear slacks?
Everyone wearks polka dots, but no one does the polka...
mmm mmm, scotch.. missing pants person is just doing the equation the other way 'round. either is correct. I had four, I now have only three, therefore you owe me.. ?.. one. It really works either way. AT least that's what I learned in the second grade. (is that reciprocity?)
.oO0(in a thought bubble) that is the Best.Posting.name.EVER.
Christina, how do you figure 2 years?
Oh, and Marque, "I do not think it means.. what you think it means."
..end transmssion
Mona, you have twins? How cool!
Definately an Interesting find! My question is were the pants "stolen" or "borrowed"? If stolen why steal pants?? If borrow why would a guy borrow another guys pants?? Hmmmm....
Buy your own clothes...come on people!
Oh, Sand. you saw through my clever cryptic message. lol. yes. I have twins. One twin's bf borrowed the other one's pants, after they walked home in the raid. Older twin broke up with said bf before Younger got her pants back. I believe he has a t shirt too. But, we've got his copy of the Rocky Horror Picture Show, a ring, and ... some other horror movie. So its all good. Gosh i hope he doesnt read this, he'll know about all the loot we've got.
the rain. they walked home in the rain.
Would have been really good if it had been signed "Lucy".
the 4-3=? part doesn't even make sense. he said he had four and now he has 3, so he lost one pair not 3....
Plastic, that was freakin' hysterical!!! Clever girl (or boy). Abby, I love that movie too!
Math!!! I hate math!! It's not about the math?????
OK, time for my tiny usage rant of the day. <Please feel free to skip this post.> An "imposter" is someone who claims to be someone or something they are not. In that sense, anyone here who doesn't use his or her real name is technically an imposter. An "impersonator," on the other hand, is an asshole who assumes another person's identity; i.e., posting under someone else's handle here for the sole purpose of disrupting the board, sometimes call "stirring the shit." The latter is also known as a troll. The only way to deal effectively with trolls is to delete all their posts and isolate them by not responding to anything they say. Eventually they tire of not getting the thrill of wrecking other people's experience and go away. Other trolls (frequently the same impersonators)create "sock puppets" to support and dialog with themselves in a lame attempt to gain credibility. Again, the best thing to do is to ignore them. Don't respond to trolls! <End of rant.>
Hear, hear, Midlife.
Midlife, midlife, he's our man....
i hate trolls too, and impersonators...
Maybe Roger told a joke so funny that Mr. Mathematician shit his pants?
i wear the same pair of pants everyday.
4 is plenty. 3 is plenty.
I go to Knox College! That's pretty ridamndiculous.
4-3= 1 pair of pants Roger needs to give up.
I don't think the writer failed elementary math.
How can one survive with only four pairs of pants anyway? Defineitly not A girl.
Yes, but the question is, what happened to the owner while the pants were off?
Sounds like Roger's gonna be a daddy.
roger isn't a roommate or ex or friend. it's a reference to roger taylor, the president of knox college. that's why it's funny. as in 'i came to your college and lost a pair of pants. as president you should reimburse me.
I thought it was much funnier when I didn't know who Roger was.
The real question is: Are those Bugle Boy pants Roger is wearing?
Oh, oh, I know!! Four minus three equals one, right? Is that it? One? See, I is smart. Smart enough not to lose my pants, anyway. Take that, Roger, you rogue.
:)
So, Knox alum, you mean the writer really lost his shirt?
Dude's upset because those were his last pair of Parachute Pants.
STOP! Hammertime cuts one in his big shiny pants...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/totp2/ugotthelook/images/
They're actually your fluorescent Jams. So bright and roomy, you know I can't give them back. No hard feelings?
Christina, how do you get two years? It was only a few months. And what do you mean, how do you survive with four pairs of pants? Haven't you ever known any men?
Knox Alum, don't be silly. Everyone knows that Roger Taylor is from Duran Duran.
L said: "Haven't you ever known any men?" Good one, L! "But honey, I like these pants - why shouldn't I wear them every day? It doesn't make sense to change them. And besides, I have three other identical pairs."
Ghost: I had just taken a drink of water and your comment made me spray my monitor! They took his pants and he lost his shirt. With "total comprehensive fees" for Knox College for the 2007-2008 academic year totaling $35,478, who can afford clothes?
Actually, "scheister" is absolutely not an ethnic slur. Nope. Uh-uh. It is a slang word for dishonest lawyers or salesmen. It is a word of German origin meaning "sidewalk" (not "shitter"). It is also spelled "shyster." There is nothing about it that makes it an ethnic slur. Sorry, but you are WRONG.
Knox alum, your explanation makes it funnier! Thanks (sorry, Terrie-is-so).
What happened to Nightingale's comment? Was that an imposter, sorry, troll?
Mona, they *were* walking home in the raid. Must have been 1944? Those V1s sure blow your pants off. Blame those German Fokkers, I mean shysters.
killer klown:
thanks! ^^
it's totally normal for guys to have a small wardrobe. it's when the wardrobe shrinks that they get all freaked out.
(ps. the jams comment just made me pee my pants a little.)
they told me it was fussgangerzone.
I am thinking these were leather pants, left to air out and then stolen by Roger Taylor for the big Duran Duran come back tour.
Roger was framed. Stephen Colbert took the pants when he was there accepting his honorary degree. I have proof.
Kinda makes ya wonder what happened to that one pair of pants...did they once own a pet goat and the pet goat ate them? Did they get ripped? Did Roger try to wear them, only to find women's and mens pants are NOT the same? And...who uses the term "slacks" nowadays?
I read found when I can, and don't post very often....but how do you know when someone is a troll?
That is AWESOME.
lol! that is something i would do :]
Ellen, just wanted to say I was really impressed by your thoughtfulness, scanning this cool sign for us, and putting th sign back for this guy. this is the first time I was more moved by the finder than the note itself.
Jonathan, the Fokker aircraft were Dutch! The company Fokker, a.k.a. the company with the embarrassing name, was taken over by Deutche Aerospace DASA in the nineties whereupon DASA became known as the Motherfokker in the low countries.