One loves it, or did a few years back, when one’s friends break into impromptu renditions from the movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail. A favorite bunch of lines to run through involves the eternal question, “What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?”
Then someone has to throw the monkey wrench of reality into the whole business.
I should be used, by now, to what mathematicians can get up to when they’re bored.
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