Traveling Salesman
A teacher presents a network graph for the Traveling Salesman Problem, but students have never heard of a traveling salesman.
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Teacher: "And this is called the 'Traveling Salesman Problem.'"
Student 1: "Question: What's a 'Traveling Salesman'?"
Student 2: "Like, someone who sells you traveling men?"
Student 3: "No, it must be a man who travels around looking for sales."
Teacher: "Amazon ruins everything."
Student 2: "Yeah, when I want a traveling man I just buy him online."