Say what you see, Mr Chips, etc. etc.

Er, let's put it this way Tom, it's hard to tell what's going on there. By the way, is CJ's catchphrase "sign of the times?" If I can think of a little catchphrase, I'll post one. Let's make a rule that no one do "Zorn's Lemon" though.

Late night posting has its drawbacks- my apologies, that was abundantly uncouth and has been unpublished.

The answer, to anyone interested, was 'group action'.

haha, did you draw it yourself?

It was beautiful... I especially appreciated the attention to perspective detail on the legs

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Blood from my wrsits and I'm dying
Pain from my wrsits and I'm dying
I'm dying
I'm dying
YOU KILLED ME

Er, CJ are you allright? I'm beginning to regret my comment about spelling now.

Here's and easy one to keep the thread rolling:

Oh good grief!

Gotcha at a glance. I wish I could have seen group action. I'll post one of my own when I have a wave of my own inspiration.

This may be a bit hypocritical after I said we shouldn't do anything like zorn's lemon, but can you guess what this is? How do you show it as a picture?

you put the link, then exclamation marks either side.

Zorn's Lemon?

Try this.

I'm stumped. That is P for probability, right? On the plus side, I now know how to do images. This is such a fun picture that I'll try it out as my image. To give you a hint - you need to figure out what that object actually is. Not easy, because this is a terrible pun. I thought of the terrible pun and did a google image search for it. This lovely picture came up. I had to crop it because the text of the whole pun was actually in the image. If no one figures it out by sometime tomorrow, I'll post the entire thing. Have fun guessing.

Edit: Oh, it turns out the cropped image is one pixel too short to use as my picture. Oh well.

Hold on Tom, I've been thinking: "pool"-ian - Boolean?

Oh and I've just noticed, someone's fixed the website's clock. Thanks for that.

although it's a snooker table, so it might not be that. this certainly is a toughie.

Any pool player named ian?

He's obviously referring to Ian Pooley.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Pooley

You're looking far too deep... the answer is just on the surface...

P.S. Has colin posted a vampire blackcurrant...? Perhaps it's AC: Edison, who supported DC, created a smear campaign against it calling it 'the killer current' (sice DC can pass right through you with little more than a tingle...)

I think I've just suddenly figured it out. We're looking at the start of a snooker game. What's about to happen is the 'big break'; one of the players will smack the white ball into that big squmodge of red balls in the centre and scatter the lot of them all over the table. The answer is probability distribution, right?

By the way Tom, you're quite close. When you think you've worked out what the pun is, try a google image search and see. And when the whole image does appear in a succeeding post, we'll all see how flagrantly I've broken my own rule about no 'zorn's lemon' type pictures. Either we'll have to revoke the rule, or I shall have to be banned from this particular forum thread.

Monster grape/group.

Doooooooooh

Eurghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Eurghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Concurred.

Not quite there I'm afraid Colin. Remember: the anwer is on the surface.

Gah!

Bayesian (Baize-ian) Probability?

LMAO

This took too long to do, but i did it anyway. shouldn't be too hard:

Lmao, I got it :D Won't post it though, will let the catchphrase noobs have a go at it

Is Rich's the same as this?

(needed rescaling- couldn't be bothered)

What!?!?!

After searching American DIY comedians for 30 minutes I finally remember who the guy is.

That's not even maths xoxoXBloodFallinFromUrTearStanedEyesXoxox.

I'd post his name but that litterally spoils xoxoXBloodFallinFromUrTearStanedEyesXoxox's picture puzzle thingy. Dont spend too long on it though.

Well, if you look at my original post, you'll see the thread was meant to be mathy ways of expressing non-mathy stuff :P But w/e. Appreciating all these pics, we should get a couple in the mathemagician?

Meh, here's my attempt, i've possibly got the idea of this the round way wrong.

These pictures are getting really tricky, aren't they? I've have a vague idea what tom might be getting at. I'm not sure where robbie williams comes into it, but in the penultimate picture, the poor badger has evidently come to a sticky end. The red arrow points at the empty sett.

Robbie Williams comes into everything

Indeed... He ruined my cake mix...

btw

After searching American DIY comedians for 30 minutes I finally remember who the guy is.

How many are there?!?!?!?!!!

Aaargh, the cropping....

I'm too lazy to put these lame attempts in a nice format:
http://img215.imageshack.us/my.php?image=math1uu1.jpg
http://img223.imageshack.us/my.php?image=math2rw5.jpg

Unfortunately wiki and google have no page relating to american DIY comedians so I had to go through a load of american comedy series actors before I found him. I've no idea what orry and tom are doing, are they maths related?

btw you need to know the name of the golfer for mine.

Tom: Why do two bruce lee's make ninja action, he's got nothing to do with ninjas.

Ah, but you're discounting the skills of the twin Lees' ninjitsu trained adversaries...

Had yours down as Doctor Wood (look at the club), am stumped on naming golfers.

Orry: is one of yours fish scaler? The other one looks like fag plug (possibly something to do with galois?...)

is the fish one the poisson distribution?

Ahh yes, nice one. I wonder how you manage though, I can't seem to find any, ever.

Ah, I got that one straight away. The other one might include the word filter, which is just visible on the packet. We have too many pictures now to keep track of. Some of them need to be answered. Richard, yours is the oldest unanswered one and CJ says he knows what the answer is. I conjectured that tom's might be empty set, and he thought yours might be the same as his, whatever his may be. Is a disco dancefloor called a set?

Nope.. but the DJ is playing a set

Got Orry's 2nd one (with thanks to Tom, Sam and Colin), it's Galois Connection. If it's not, then it should be. Hah.

Jeb

yes indeed, my dj is playing a set to an empty room hence the empty set as is toms one.

Since no one has got mine, the golfers name is Greg Norman.

Surface normal? :P

Nope.

Supremum norm?

Nope. DG? People are asking me.

There's nothing planned so it's a free for all I guess.

Are you not going to it then? Time.

Crap.

Just 2 so far inc. me.

I'm going. Jamie too, and we've both semi-got stuff prepared...

Operator norm!

Perhaps I should be at Dg.

I commented this morning that there were too many unresolved pictures. Now there aren't any at all, as far as I can tell. Tom hasn't posted it yet, but apparently the answer to his latest one is Lie algebra. We'll need to come up with some new pictures.

CJ, digging out Tom's old group action picture isn't very smart you know.

By the way, you'll never guess what I cut my finger on on Saturday.

Correct for me.

I'm guessing Colin, you cut your finger on some group action, an orgy, lil bit o' public back and fourth, stirring the giants, baiting the fishes, dibling the fiddler.

Don't know where the algebra part comes into Tom's puzzle. Then again I dont know where galois comes into orrys puzzle.

Indeed.... amazing what a little prick can do...

But yes, lie algebra: it sucked, but i was bored. The cigarettes in Orry's are galioses.

Gauloises, actually, but that's good enough :p

haha, came back via maths from the WORST score evar just to post this on the forums in case anyone else tried to do it when they got home.

Genius.

Awesome. :D

Not sure who that is, but I bet I could guess the name pretty quickly if I could be bothered.

I have no idea who it is so I'm guessing jacobian?

Nope.

Josef Hermitia

I have no idea who it is so I'm guessing jacobian?

Quite a nice guess seeing as you don't know who it is, I would've been totally unable to guess anything had I not known of the pun beforehand.
Think second partials instead of first :p

Not really, he just named the first matrix with a common name that came to mind. :P

Well that's already better than what I would've done :D

Jacobian is a common name is it. I think the most common would probably be Gauss, but I figured Jacobian would be more likely to have inspired the matrix thingy.

PS anyone who has not got this by now, go hang your head in shame in the nearest corner, move something if you have to because now both parts of the word have been mentioned on the forum.

This one really is unfairly obscure, I'll be pleasantly surprised if anyone gets it.

Sorry, I'm confused by the system at the moment. The only way I know how to get a picture is to include it as an attatchment as well.

w.r.t. OP post

FUKN SAVED

Could be Column Vector. I'm guessing its something more specific though.

So which way round is it? Bird then cliff or cliff then bird?

Jacobian is a common name is it. I think the most common would probably be Gauss, but I figured Jacobian would be more likely to have inspired the matrix thingy.

The most common matrix with a name arguably is the Jacobian...

Jacobian isn't even a name! There isn't anyone called Jacobian. Arguably this...

Also that was quite delayed.

Tell that to Carl Gustav Jakob Jacobi...

Indeed.

That's Jacobi not Jacobian, which was my point to begin with.

I knew that and it's incredibly pedantic of you to say it as I assumed you'd understand that by "matrix with a name" I meant matrix named after someone and not a matrix named John or something similar. My point is literal. Thank you.

The Cosmin robotics team

Right, I see you two have had your usual sort of night. The 'cliff' is supposed to be the first word. I wasn't expecting the attatchments to appear the other way round.

By the way CJ, could you please get rid of the group action picture? I'm sorry CJ, I must have had a go at you at least three or four times on these forums now. I don't imagine I'd dare be so rude to your face.

Why?

Cus I'm SCARY AS HECK

~ rips phone book in half, and flicks long hair out of eyes ~

Also, I can't remove the image as I don't have edit permissions for old posts like that :( Thatcher's Britain, I'm telling ya

He is you know, that was my copy of yellow pages... ...he is also an eighties labour activist; and once punched William Whitelaw for suggesting that in a monetarist democracy with little to no primary resources, teetering on the brink of decline, our decaying mining industry was little but irrelevant to the sane management our economy, but that's another story...

...By the by, why won't someone make a fuss over my link? It's to Jacob Ian's Myspace :(

Edit: unless that bird's called a "fordalgebra" I am stumped.

I was expecting Alex to do so since you had proved him wrong quite nicely. :P

Inaccessible Cardinal. Oh yes.
I don't even know what one is by the way.

Sometimes ecclesiastical matters get on top of them, sure you can leave messages but they'll never call [bursts into tears].

Wow, someone got it. I'm not entirely sure what one is, but I came across the term when doing my essay. Naturally it would be almost impossible for a first year to guess that one. Yes, I did a google image search for the two words and found these pictures. The bird is a cardinal and the top picture is of the 'inaccessible pinacle', a landmark on the isle of skye. I'm amazed anyone figured this out. Well done, Orry.

Yes, CJ can be one scary guy. Especially since I can't understand half his posts. That's my problem for not knowing his language.

Yeah, I don't click on links any more. Since most links are rickrolls, or the like.

Using the cunning that only a drunk person has, I google searched 'red bird' and saw what came up. That was the hardest bit. :P

a better one. I hate star trek, just to be perfectly clear.

I must make a resolution not to wind CJ up in future. Nor, if any of his posts annoy me for some reason, to rise to it. It's bad enough having to put up with Alex's and Cosmin's night-long forum battles every now and then. Can you imagine if a second war were to break out on the forums?

Meantime, here's a piss-easy one.

Aha. Jack-cob-bean. Jacobian.

Nonono, you don't wind me up :) My xoxo thing was just trolling practise

I've done a censored version of the group action photo, to all the sensitive viewers out there. however since it was cj's idea i'm going to let him post his one first.

Colin, is yours "Commutative ring" ?

Obviously.

It's bad enough having to put up with Alex's and Cosmin's night-long forum battles every now and then.

Really? :p

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