A secondary school teacher was arrested today at Melbourne international airport as he attempted to board an international flight while in possesstion of a ruler, a protractorm a compass, slide rule and a calculator. At a press conference a spokesman for the Federal Police said he believes the man is a member og the notorius extremist Al-Gebra movement. He did not identify the man, who has been charges by the Police with carrying weapons of maths instruction.
'Al-Gebra is a problem for us' the Spokesman said. 'They derive solutions by means and extremes, and sometimes go off on tangents in search of absolute values.' They use secret code names like 'X' and 'Y' and refer to themselves as 'unknowns; but we have determined that they belong to a common denominator of the axis of medieval with coordinates in every country. As the Greek philosopher Isoceles used to say. "there are three sides to every triangle".
