A pun on “weapon of mass destruction” is “weapon of math disruption,” as in a popular joke:
“A rubber band pistol was confiscated from algebra class because it was a weapon of math disruption.”
The joke has been cited in print since at least August 2008.
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Fw: Punster alert…
Cynthia Groopman
8/23/08
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4. A rubber band pistol was confiscated from algebra class because it was a weapon of math disruption.
Twitter
francine hardaway
@hardaway
A friend sent me a joke:A rubber band pistol was confiscated from algebra class because
it was a weapon of math disruption.
6:05 PM - 13 Sep 2008
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pdg...@nospam.wmis.net
9/25/08
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4. A rubber band pistol was confiscated from algebra class because it was a weapon of math disruption.
Google Books
November 2009, Boys’ Life, “Think & Grin,” pg. 59, col. 1:
Jamie: My algebra teacher confiscated my rubber-band gun today.
Stewart: Why’d she do that?
Jamie: She said it was a “weapon of math disruption.”
Jamie Stewart, Kennewick, Wash.
Google Books
Double Dealing III:
The Pun
By Chuck Closson
Xlibris Corporation (Xlibris.com)
2013
Pg. 145:
In school a rubber band can be a weapon of Math disruption.
Google Books
Of Wit N Humour
By Vincent Thnay
Lulu Press, Inc, (Lulu.com)
2015
Pg. ?:
A rubber band pistol was confiscated from algebra class, because it was a weapon of math disruption.—Unknown
Google Books
Best Ever Classroom Jokes:
Because some of us never grow up
By Mike Haskins
New York, NY: Pavilion Books
2015
Pg. ?:
Did you hear about the maths teacher who confiscated a rubber-band gun from one of the pupils in his class?
He said it was a weapon of math disruption.
Twitter
Steve
@sinnfinden
did you hear about the guy that got his rubber band gun confiscated in geometry?
it was a weapon of math disruption
10:37 AM - 24 Mar 2016
Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.
Recent entries:
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“Online flirting is all fun and games until someone buys a plane ticket” (5/27)
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“Only in America can you get arrested for feeding the homeless & be sentenced to community service” (5/27)
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“In Texas, the shortest distance between two points is likely under construction” (5/27)
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“New York is the only town where the shortest distance between two points is under construction” (5/27)
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Entry in progress—BP (5/26)
More new entries...
Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps.
Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce "The Big Apple," a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.
Also listen to a 1937 "The Big Apple" song by Ozzie Nelson and his Orchestra. See a 1929 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald and a 1931 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald.
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