Monday, January 29, 2007

Geometry

When you are locking lips with the man of your choice in your local pub, the stance you adopt has long been established: Opposite and facing one another.

But what happens when you are playing tonsil tennis with more than one beau at a time? The solution lies in the power and beauty of mathematics.

If there are three of you altogether, you each should occupy one of the vertices of an equilateral triangle, aim towards the centre, and tongues away!



Yum!


Euclid, eat your heart out.

In the (even better) event that there are four players in the game, you should each occupy the corners of a square, again aiming towards the centre.



Foursomes ROCK!


In the extremely rare - and even more pleasurable - instance that there are five protagonists in the drama, each of hot n' hairy bears needs to occupy one of the five vertices of a pentagon, and once again lean towards the middle.



Difficult to negotiate, but fun while it lasted.


In the case of six, seven, or even EIGHT burly beasts playing this game, it can be shown that you should perform the same with the corners of a hexagon, heptagon, or octagon, respectively, though I can't (yet!) say that I have had experience with these numbers in that context.

However, it is best if the feat is not followed by either - or both - of the following:

1) All of them disappearing as soon as you have gone to the bathroom, in spite of your best efforts to bring them all back to a location of your choice.

2) You leaving your jacket out of sight for a while, and then when returning home (under a black cloud, because you thought you were going to have the night of your life, only to have iced water poured on the whole thing at the last minute) you discover that your phone is no longer in said jacket.

BAH!

2 comments:

the 'flee said...

Been to 'The Brawldog' have we?

Denis said...

How did you guess?