Wednesday, August 03, 2005

Same-sex marriage and Fermat's Last Theorem.


For a number of years, German mathematician Edmund Landau had a form letter which read as follows:

Dear Sir/Madam:

Your proof of Fermat's Last Theorem has been received. The first mistake is on page _____, line _____.

Landau would then assign to one of his students the task of filling in the appropriate values.

In the spirit of Edmund Landau, we can similarly refer to the writings of Canadian same-sex marriage opponents and ask, in any given article or publication, for the location of the earliest example of a breathtakingly inane and moronic argument.

For the entertainment value, one can start here and follow the link at the bottom of the page to the good professor's screed. All submissions must be examples of actual unspeakable stupidity. Mere typographical errors will be rejected out of hand.

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