Posted by IsoM on February 11, 2002, at 2:03:35
In reply to The Mental Illness Suffering Conversion Table., posted by jane d on February 11, 2002, at 0:38:18
Jane, I loved it too! Thanks so much.
I just finishing posting a comment in PB Admin about some trying to outdo others in who feels the most pain. :-)I'm not nearly as good at math as Elizabeth in PB & Sid is. They're much better.
Perhaps we can graph our suffering with time on the y-axis - years (or maybe months) being the unit measurement & pain on the x-axis. Or maybe a logrithmic scale instead. Then we could work out formulas using gender (male or female) & age as variables.
Before we know it, Dr. Bob's got another forum going - Psycho-Babble Math! As various members work out complicated calculations & develop new theories, a whole new branch of math is opened up called Neurotransmathematics & Dr. Bob wins the Nobel prize in math instead of medicine!
I collect science cartoons - math ones are the best. One of my favourites show some mathematician adding two huge numbers together on a blackboard while another shakes his head & says "No, George. Adding two numbers together that no one's added before does NOT constitute a new breakthrough in math."
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