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><channel><title>Dan's Blog &#187; Knowledge</title> <atom:link href="http://www.despite.org/blog/tag/knowledge/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.despite.org/blog</link> <description>Despite.Org - Despise Everything!</description> <lastBuildDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:23:15 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1</generator> <xhtml:meta xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" name="robots" content="noindex" /> <item><title>A Lesson in Math</title><link>http://www.despite.org/blog/2009/05/a-lesson-in-math/</link> <comments>http://www.despite.org/blog/2009/05/a-lesson-in-math/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 13:09:35 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Daniel Clark</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Comedy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jokes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Rated]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Rated: PG-13]]></category> <category><![CDATA[18 Years]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Amp]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Comfort Hotel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Comfort Inn Hotel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Dear Wife]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Dining Room Table]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Dining Table]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Good Wife]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Honesty]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Knowledge]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Local College]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Lot]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Marriot Hotel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Math Teacher]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Old Secretary]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Successful Businessman]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tennis Team]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.despite.org/blog/?p=237</guid> <description><![CDATA[A husband wrote the following letter for his wife and left it on the dining room table: &#8220;To My Dear Wife, You will surely understand that I have certain needs that you, being 54 years old, can no longer satisfy. I am very happy with you &#38; I value you as a good wife. Therefore,]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A husband wrote the following letter for his wife and left it on the <a
href="http://www.despite.org/blog/tag/dining-room-table/" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with Dining Room Table">dining room table</a>:</p><blockquote><p>&#8220;To My <a
href="http://www.despite.org/blog/tag/dear-wife/" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with Dear Wife">Dear Wife</a>,</p><p>You will surely understand that I have certain needs that you, being 54 years old, can no longer satisfy. I am very happy with you &<a
href="http://www.despite.org/blog/tag/amp/" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with Amp">amp</a>; I value you as a <a
href="http://www.despite.org/blog/tag/good-wife/" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with Good Wife">good wife</a>. Therefore, after reading this letter, I hope that you will not wrongly interpret the fact that I will be spending the evening with my 18 year <a
href="http://www.despite.org/blog/tag/old-secretary/" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with Old Secretary">old secretary</a> at the <a
href="http://www.despite.org/blog/tag/comfort-inn-hotel/" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with Comfort Inn Hotel">Comfort Inn Hotel</a>. Please don&#8217;t be upset &#8211; I shall be home before midnight.&#8221;</p></blockquote><p>When the man came home late that night, he found the following letter on the <a
href="http://www.despite.org/blog/tag/dining-room-table/" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with Dining Room Table">dining room table</a>:</p><blockquote><p>&#8220;My Dear Husband,</p><p>I received your letter and thank you for your <a
href="http://www.despite.org/blog/tag/honesty/" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with Honesty">honesty</a> about my being 54 years old. I would like to take this opportunity to remind you that you are also 54 years old. As you know, I am a <a
href="http://www.despite.org/blog/tag/math-teacher/" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with Math Teacher">math teacher</a> at our <a
href="http://www.despite.org/blog/tag/local-college/" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with Local College">local college</a>. I would like to inform you that while you read this, I will be at the <a
href="http://www.despite.org/blog/tag/marriot-hotel/" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with Marriot Hotel">Marriot Hotel</a> with Michael, one of my students, who is also on the <a
href="http://www.despite.org/blog/tag/tennis-team/" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with Tennis Team">tennis team</a>. He is young, virile, and like your secretary, is <a
href="http://www.despite.org/blog/tag/18-years/" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with 18 Years">18 years</a> old.       As a <a
href="http://www.despite.org/blog/tag/successful-businessman/" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with Successful Businessman">successful businessman</a> who has an excellent <a
href="http://www.despite.org/blog/tag/knowledge/" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with Knowledge">knowledge</a> of Math, you will understand although it may appear that we are in the same situation, there is one mathematical difference: 18 goes into 54 a <a
href="http://www.despite.org/blog/tag/lot/" class="st_tag internal_tag" rel="tag" title="Posts tagged with Lot">lot</a> more times than 54 goes into 18. Therefore, I will not be home until sometime tomorrow.&#8221;</p></blockquote><p>-Dan</p>Tags: <a
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