High School Memories ... Bathroom Physics

 

Circa 1966, thinking 8^th grade but maybe later, reading a graffiti physics lesson etched into the old paint of a school bathroom stall:

 

     Heat of the Meat  X  Mass of the Ass = Angle of the Dangle

  

Graphic detail from “Nymphs and Satyr,” 1873
Analysis by unknown GHS student, circa 1966

I’ve often wondered what GHS genius imagined this astonishing equation? Or if not a genius, then at least someone possessed of far more esoteric knowledge than I at the time … Someone we can never know with certainty, as surely more than one lesser mind would happily steal the credit!

 

I loved math and science at the time ... is that why I thought it was so funny and remembered it so well? Something else I'll never know - how many others appreciated it as much as I did?

 

 

In any case, here is a “thanks” to someone for an adolescent "GHS Memory" that has stayed with me, now into my sixties.

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