We've been doing a lot of math in our house lately. Amanda is working out the relationship between ATPase production and force in muscle (turns out that requires piles of math) and Julia is learning Algebra. Meanwhile, I've mainly been cooking dinner. Like this:
OK, OK, so that one does not work so well. This one is infallible:
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Nope - broccoli. Did I miss something?
I thought carrot. My wife thought green pepper.
Tomato.
"Banana". :-\
Hey, I was thinking outside the box... :-O
Dangit that second trick should have been limited to N
:)
1) I thought of eggplant. Which is a vegetable (in culinary terms anyway) that I like to eat but am allergic to. Perhaps having said number "8" in my head, eggplant was similar sounding. Or something.
2) I baffled most of my co-workers (engineers and techies) with this one a few years back, but the one guy who was a mathematician saw through it immediately (and then proceeded to explain it to everyone else).
Cabbage...
potato(e) :)
Squash.