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[james_davis_nicoll]

Comments

[malnpudl]

This is my new favorite thing. At least for today.

[kgbooklog]

It's their own fault for doing things like "buy 2, get 3 free" sales.

[scott_sanford]

Many years ago my father was at a festival booth selling sausages three for a dollar or twenty-five cents each. He said it was a good way to tell who read and did math.

[nelc]

CASE NIGHTMARE GREEN is upon us, clearly. Just chatting about math summons horrible things from alternative spaces who eat the customers and zombify the staff. The latter isn't so bad, but....

[thewayne]

It's possible that the deli was in a pocket of unreal space and that if someone started solving differential equations out loud that it could cause the pocket to collapse, trapping everyone inside.

We wouldn't want that to happen, just think of the insurance adjusters!

[eub]

"A Subway(TM) Named Mobius"

[ekaterinn]

I can't see it? And clicking on either link just brings me back to this page...

[james_davis_nicoll]

does this work?

[ekaterinn]

Yes, merci! And HAHAHAHA! Wonder if there was a fistfight among math profs in that line...

[(Anonymous)]

I would guess that a regular customer was probably using it to puncture some deceptive bit of marketing for other people waiting in line, causing them to change their mind about buying things.

[graydon]

https://twitter.com/extremefriday

Top three tweets, currently.

"Apparently, it's inefficient to order a turkey sandwich & discuss embeddings in SL2(Z) at the same time. The owner, Cynthia, took note."