Some random movie quotes, cartoons, links, etc.
From: “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest” (2006):
Will Turner: What vexes all men?
Tia Dalma: What, indeed.
Gibbs: The sea…?
Pintel: Sums…?
Ragetti: The dichotomy of good and evil…?
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From: “Oh Brother, Where Art Thou” (2000)
(Finally, an example of a discrete metric!)
Store clerk: I can get the part from Bristol. It’ll take two weeks, here’s your pomade.
Ulysses Everett McGill: Two weeks? That don’t do me no good.
Store clerk: Nearest Ford auto man’s Bristol.
Ulysses Everett McGill: Hold on, I don’t want this pomade. I want Dapper Dan.
Store clerk: I don’t carry Dapper Dan, I carry Fop.
Ulysses Everett McGill: Well, I don’t want Fop, goddamn it! I’m a Dapper Dan man!
Store clerk: Watch your language, young feller, this is a public market. Now if you want Dapper Dan, I can order it for you, have it in a couple of weeks.
Ulysses Everett McGill: Well, ain’t this place a geographical oddity. Two weeks from everywhere!
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Some sneaky math in “The Simpsons”:
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Don’t mess with Eggbert:
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Interested in keyboard instruments? Here’s the way they were meant to be:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jank%C3%B3_keyboard
https://blog.rmwinslow.com/art/isomorphic.html
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Here’s a nice intro to the mathematics of juggling:
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-mathematics-of-juggling-20170524/