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shadowpwner on Nov 7, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: Any good math jokes?

I'm sorry, how is a mosquito a vector?

jsundram on Nov 7, 2010 | [–]

mosquitos are vectors for disease (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_(biology))

mikegreenberg on Nov 8, 2010 | [–]

A better version I heard changed 'mosquito' to 'mountain goat'. Since both characters are from the same domain, people start thinking about (more) reasonable solutions and get blindsided harder by the math reference!

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