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WTF Are People Saying
z on The Very Short Bus Phil on Barbie’s Revenge papa wheelie on Still Better A Love Story Than… Industrial Pelican on Quadruple Rainbow All the… moarqq on Just Taking the Baby out for a…
You know I am sure I have seen this scene before… wasn’t it on the pythons…
Oh, those wacky Pythagoreans..
Let the nightmares begin.
Hmmm… some things never change.
Where can I get a hat like that?
Where did you get that hat
Where did you get that tile,
Isn’t it a nobby one
And just the proper style
I should like to have one
Just the same as that
Wherever I go they’d shout “Hello”
Where did you get that hat
math has never been so frightening D:
The answer is wrong because it looks like they forgot to carry the two.
I STUDYIED CALCUU IN SKEWL NOW I DONT GOT A JOB SKOLE SUX I DIDDEN LERN N E THING!
I can’t imagine why not.
In very old England students had to leave the class two by two because the last student out of the class would lose his soul. They also executed people for doing math, specifically “Magic numbers”. This looks like a very old propaganda piece, except that they stopped executing people long before calculus was discovered.
It could be an anti-education propaganda piece from the early 1900′s.
I lol’d
That is the funniest piece of misinformation I’ve ever read!
This is why I don’t study while drunk anymore.
Yup, I’ve had nightmares like this.
Me too.
But in mine, I was naked.
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Don’t miss the series finale of Lost. Tonight at 8.
This picture was taken at Vassar college.
Math is scary.
Larnin is evil!
Gosh-darn honor students! It’s all fun in games till someone gets sacrificed to Pythagoras…
Never did I think Math could scare me more than it already did. Imma have nightmares with all my old math teachers cackling and dancing in silly hats and dresses…Even Mr. Boat.
They were just making an offering to their god, Calcul’lu.
The Monad wants you to stop eating beans.
Looks like a cut scene from The Forbidden Zone. I would LOVE to see the context of this.
I want a dress like that.
Taking from the above comment on this being a piece of anti-education propaganda, I’m going to take it a step further and guess that this is a propaganda piece against the education of african americans based on the fact that the dancers appear to be black, and the “bodies” are white. Don’t know how they managed that though.
Cuddlefish makes an interesting point, though it looks to me like they’re either wearing black (as in the color) masks or have painted their faces black.
However, since I’m a huge geek and it’s the intartubes, I shall now explain what’s really going on. I’ve done a lot of research and reading regarding the history of women as students/faculty back in the day when “Bluestocking” was an insult and the male-centric medical establishment were questioning whether women in academia had the intellectual capacity of a man.
From the clothing and photography technique, I would say this is the 1870s to 1900 in vintage. It seems like people today forget that people back then had senses of humor. Just like today, where young people take silly pictures and pass then around, that’s pretty much what young and old have done since the advent of photography.
These look like college-age ladies in the grasp of a common dream/nightmare that everyone who has ever been a student has had at some point. The women in black are scholastic subjects who are bedeviling and draining their victims.
And it doesn’t look like a pleasant experience for them, either. It’s also very easy to see that this photo is lighthearted, though whether it’s pro- or anti- education for women is up in the air. It was thought that academia and the pursuit of knowledge were a masculine area and any women who pursued it were seen as terribly unfeminine, as well as “against nature.”
But I can see where Cuddlefish sees the racial undertones. Even if they’re portraying demons or devils, the implicit implication is that white=good, black=evil/bad. It’s a binary concept that, while fuzzy, is still very strong in our culture.
Sorry for the rambling post, it wasn’t terribly funny or clever. I just wanted to clarify something that a lot of people misjudge (not discounting Cuddlefish’s interpretation, because that’s a pretty insightful reading of this photo) in an area that I’m really knowledgeable in for a change^.^
So yeah, I’m not trying to be a killjoy or anything of the sort. Love the site, can’t wait to see what’s posted tomorrow!
I doubt it was at all racial. It was the typical demon look of the period. At the time this was taken there were no black people being educated in any university in any country people that white were living in that I can think of. It wasn’t a debate. They were still struggling to allow white women to be educated…a black woman (or man) wasn’t even a thought or an option, much less a political statement. Likewise, countries with dark-skinned people had higher education only for males for the most part.