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English Pirates vs. Greek Pirates

September 19, 2018Original blog post

A pirate joke: Greek pirates say rho (row), so their ships move; English pirates only say R.

Transcript

"Whose ships move faster: English pirates, or Greek ones?" [A Greek pirate beside ρ (rho); an English pirate beside r] "The Greeks! While they row, the English only ARRRRRRRRR"

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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2018-09-19-english-pirates-vs-greek-pirates/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
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