Jesus Math

While driving earlier today, I saw the following bumper sticker :




Which means if you want to solve the above formula to determine the value of a single nail, you’d get this :



Then again, it’s been about ten years since I’ve taken any math classes or gone to Sunday school, so I could be wrong about this one.


posted by greg on April 19, 2005 @ 2:43 pm

10 comments

  1. I hope the S stands for “Stewardesses.”

    Comment by dAnimal — April 19, 2005 @ 2:52 pm

  2. Did you remember to carry the bum?

    Comment by ConceptAlbum — April 19, 2005 @ 3:25 pm

  3. GVN = Good Virtueless Nurses right?

    Comment by Fr33d0m — April 19, 2005 @ 5:19 pm

  4. Couldn’t that be simplified further to

    NAIL = 4/3GVN – 1/3CROSS

    Now where am I going to find 1.25GVN to test this out. I love applied math.

    Comment by Joshua — April 19, 2005 @ 7:52 pm

  5. 3 nails? I’m no theologian, but where exactly did they put the third nail? These romans sound like twisted bastards.

    Comment by Matt of the Open Range — April 19, 2005 @ 10:34 pm

  6. The real answer is that Roman Crucifixion tended to use one peg for both feet. It was more agonizingly painful, apparently. The better answer is that they put it “downtown” where you can go where you always know, downtown.

    EW.

    Comment by Ross — April 20, 2005 @ 12:17 am

  7. What is GVN ?

    Comment by BigAl — April 20, 2005 @ 7:08 am

  8. Oh, you are so very going to hell.

    Save me a seat.

    Comment by Stephen — April 20, 2005 @ 7:52 am

  9. I love these things. I used to drive by a church daily that had the best cheesey religious lines. My favorite was always, “Give satan an inch and he’ll become a ruler.”

    Comment by k — April 20, 2005 @ 8:19 am

  10. k,

    Does that imply that Satan is 11 inches?

    Comment by Joshua — April 20, 2005 @ 10:34 pm

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