A Number Line? What Do You See?

By Mistress Shadow

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The Physicists sees part of a train track
To which he can find the velocity of two destined to crash trains


The Psychologists sees an interval
To which he can rate intelligence or cognitive ability upon


The 3d Artist sees the base to a metal framework
To which they will weave a new master piece.


The 2d Artist sees a soon to be horizon
Border lined by a fence.


The ten year old sees the number nine.


The gardener, a yard stick.


The convict sees part of his prison.


The English major sees part of a book shelf
With ten books below and above with each having the same width


The statistician sees an axis for a graph.


The veteran sees a line of machine gun bullets


The empiricist sees a series of ten lines


The drug addict sees rainbows, a dragon imploding
with a bunny hoping out of it; a couple gnomes dancing around in the background,
some floating pink tutus and a talking shrub with the voice of ‘Janice’ from ‘Friends’


The ecologist sees some growing seeds


The pot head, weed-s


The programmer sees a number of pixels on a screen
Produced in a bmp document


The java programmer responds with
‘Oh shit’ to the broken code he sees


The philosopher sees something bizarre’
Similar to the drug addict (no offence!), except there are no gnomes or shrubs


The chemist sees a 100.00ml burette on its side
To which he can titrate two liquids with


The sleep deprived
Sees themselves falling through the universe (surrounded by stars)


The driver who speeds sees road lines during the night
And passing by trees during the day


The photographer sees the range
To which he can zoom his camera into


The DJ sees a volume dial


The elderly sees a nine day planner
To store their daily pills in


The accident prone sees a series of stitches


The sadistic and masochistic see stitches too


The spirited see stitches in the side of a carved pumpkin


The daydreamer sees an elongated cloud


The dentist sees two toothbrushes
With the heads back to back


The pet lover sees a Tigger fish which has been floating in the tank
for a week and has had its fins and head eaten by the other fish


The ‘slave’ sees a collar, the ‘master’ a tool


The one with fetishes sees boot laces!


The CEOs see PA buttons


The beer drinkers see the tops of an 18 pack of bottled Budweiser


The sewer sees a zipper


The baby a bottle that’s missing the nipple and lying sideways


The lumberman sees part of a stack of two by fours pilled on top of each other


The bored “teenie-bopper” yawns and responds with “this is boring”


The older “teenie-bopper” laughs, thinking they figured something amazing out
And claims they see nothing



AND,
The mathematician laughs, and responds,
“It’s obviously infinity! Look you can take a infinite amount of small numbers between any of the two finite units”

And low and behold, the mathematician sees all of the above and doesn’t know any of the above people as he/she doesn't have friends.

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© 2006 Mistress Shadow
Published on Wednesday, February 8, 2006.     Filed under: "Comedy" and "Poetry"
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  • A former member wrote: the realist sees nine plus signs in a row...everyone else just thinks too much/little...

  • Mistress Shadow On Monday, April 3, 2006, Mistress Shadow (249)By person wrote:

    Perhaps I'll have to add, "darklightapparition shouts louder than both "teenie-boppers", critically saying it's just nine plus signs in a row". ~T

  • A former member wrote: ...i love this, i really do, it is amazing.

  • Kali Ma On Thursday, February 9, 2006, Kali Ma (43)By person wrote:

    Wow, you wrote this? its amazing! thats must've taken a long time... very original, love the druggie one, hahaha... ~ Asheai

  • A former member wrote: i like it i bet this took a lot of thinking

  • Guillotine On Thursday, February 9, 2006, Guillotine (168)By person wrote:

    This was great!! Definately a favourite!

  • GothicBlack On Wednesday, February 8, 2006, GothicBlack (186)By person wrote:

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! How so Fucking Appropriate! wonderful my dear, just wonderful. I'd know this was you.....even without looking at your name. Beautiful (oh and the drugy part, just pure brilliance). ~gothic~

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