Thursday, December 13, 2007

numbers aren't absolute...


I like how this one is ambiguous about the Arabic numerals, but fairly confident with the illustrations. Thanks, Alden in Atlanta!

10 comments:

  1. Shouldn't it be (pretzel + pretzel + pretzel)=4(pretzel) because you're buying three and getting 4? Seems to me the sign is telling me that if I put 3 pretzels in, I'll get 1.

    ...or maybe I'm just crazy because I just finished my math final.

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  2. Yeah, I was going to say the same thing. I think the secret meaning of this sign is that buying 9 pretzels nets you 3 free ones.

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  3. I just almost spit out my pop, I laughed so hard about this one. I don't know that I have seen anything that funny in a long, long time.

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  4. Also, it sounds like buying "3" orders of pretzel bites would get you "1" free order of pretzel bites, but the picture shows a free pretzel (or a pair of scissors).

    And the letter Fs are odd, too.

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  5. Ah, it's the old buy-one-pretzel-for-the-price-of-three gimmick. I've seen it "a hundred" times.

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  6. Looks like if you buy three cups of pretzels they'll tie your shoelaces for you.

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  7. I wonder if they can also do arithmetic using complex/imaginary pretzels.

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  8. yeah, those definitely aren't F's. they're telephone poles. and, of course, the bombastic flat-bottomed y.

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  9. I'm going to have to go with my first reaction (and Jeff) here, that's some seriously bad math.

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