# Pi **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 14, 1999, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pi/4892 "1999-11-14T01:09:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 1999, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pi/4892/21 "1999-11-19T13:36:00Z")
= _natural_ log cabin, let’s not forget. What’s purple and commutes? ---
**Author:** ![Cabbage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@Cabbage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabbage)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 1999, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pi/4892/22 "1999-11-19T22:53:00Z")
Are you sure it’s not a boat house? (+ C) OK, so what is purple and commutes? ---
**Author:** ![mr\_john](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@mr\_john](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mr_john)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 1999, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pi/4892/23 "1999-11-20T00:36:00Z")
Boy, Nano what got your goat, sure got me buffaloed. You got me cowed Holg,but if you were to click my email link and see my aol screen name,you’d find my real last name. Fine teutonic name.(2nd S used to be a Z with or with out the bar.) If I am any example you are right about the sanity of germans. My algebra teacher used to give me hell about me crossing 7 and z. A local cop got FIRED because he crossed his 7’s on paper work!!! mmm… Suburban eggplants ? * * * “Pardon me while I have a strange interlude.”-Marx ---
**Author:** ![John\_Kentzel-Griffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ccd318/32.png) [@John\_Kentzel-Griffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Kentzel-Griffin)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 1999, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pi/4892/24 "1999-11-22T22:02:00Z")
**CKDextHavn** asked “What’s purple and commutes?” An Abelian grape. Ha ha ha I haven’t heard that in a long time. * * * Virtually yours, DrMatrix ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 1999, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pi/4892/25 "1999-11-22T22:25:00Z")
I suppose you know what is purple and lost the war? ---
**Author:** ![John\_Kentzel-Griffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ccd318/32.png) [@John\_Kentzel-Griffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Kentzel-Griffin)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 1999, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pi/4892/26 "1999-11-23T05:19:00Z")
**Polycarp** asked: What’s purple and lost the war? Gee, I dunno. Alexander the grape. Nah, that can’t be right. But closer to the original post: What do you get when you divide the circumference of a jack-o’-lantern by its diameter? While waiting for the (obvious) answer let’s all sing: Aleph-null bottles of beer on the wall, Aleph-null bottles of beer If one of those bottles should happen to fall There’d be Aleph-null bottles of beer on the wall Aleph-null bottles of beer on the wall… * * * Virtually yours, DrMatrix ---
**Author:** ![NanoByte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecc23a/32.png) [@NanoByte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NanoByte)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 1999, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pi/4892/27 "1999-11-23T08:24:00Z")
Sounds like that perverse Matrix has been hangin’ out too long down at the adjoint again. And ol’ Joseph Smith was down there with ‘im, sayin’, “This is Laplace.” Ray (When in doubt conjugate.) ---
**Author:** ![Cabbage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@Cabbage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabbage)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 1999, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pi/4892/28 "1999-11-23T10:21:00Z")
I’d like a slice of Pumpkin Pi, please. This might be kind of pathetic, but what the hell: Why can’t computers tell the difference between Halloween and Christmas? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pi/4892.md?page=1)