8 thoughts on “Sorry Fred, it’s not that I don’t want to help. Have you tried ChatGPT bro?..”

    1. This is why I don’t do math.
      That and not knowing how to do it.

  2. Actually Fred’s first thought was “Why is that helicopter on a path aimed directly at my head? Is it going to land on top of me?!”
    And because he was an English teacher, his second thought was “This damn word problem should say, ‘Fred was LYING down,” NOT Fred was laying down’ since the intransitive verb is called for here,” and he recalled how he had explained to his students about a thousand times the rule of thumb that if you do it with your whole body, the verb you want is “lie” while if you do it with your hands, you want the verb “lay.” And he remembered the gross and maddening language oddity that the past tense of “lie” is “lay,” which is the same as the present tense of the completely different word “lay.”
    And then he died.
    But one millisecond before he died, he thought, “At least I outlived the apostrophe’s use in possessive case,” and then he silently cringed as he recalled reading the day before in an article about Yevgeny Prigozhin’s coup attempt that Prigozhin’s impact could not be underestimated when the author obviously intended to say that his impact could not be OVER estimated since saying it couldn’t be underestimated would mean that no matter how low and insignificant you rated his impact it wouldn’t be low enough.
    And then he died.

    3. Now this is gonna be hard to believe but that’s EXACTLY what I was thinking.

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