Milk production at a dairy farm was low, so the farmer wrote to the local university, asking for help from academia.
A multidisciplinary team of professors was assembled, headed by a theoretical physicist, and two weeks of intensive on-site investigation took place.
The scholars then returned to the university, notebooks crammed with data, where the task of writing the report was left to the team leader.
Shortly thereafter the physicist returned to the farm, saying to the farmer, "I have the solution, but it works only in the case of spherical cows in a vacuum".

 

first thing that popped in my head was Fermont's Last Theorem of nonlinear spheres being modular. You guys actually seen kind of fun and have places you can post cool stuff to so I am enjoying myself looking around here

 

I'm way too stupid to get that one. Too much for us simple minded, brain damaged members, derf.

 

Maybe that team of 'experts' were the ones there with the farmer in the dairy barn when the farmer reached into the gutter, got a little cow s**t on his fingers, and wiped his lips with it. One of the team members looked aghast at the farmer and asked why in the world he did that! The farmer replied that it was for his chapped lips. "And it works?" asked the physicist. "Well, kind of. It keeps me from licking them", he replied.

 

it's a metaphor in a way. They came up with an over-complicated, unrealistic and impossible solution. Fermont's Last Theorem was unprovable for quite some time, I believe in to the late 90s or early 2000s when someone came up with the idea that you have to create an insequential number set to solve the equation.

 

Imagine that....
i squared =-1

 

And the square root of 69 is ate something.

 

And that my friend, is why you got a d in algebra

 

No, I got a C because the teacher hated me. I could actually work algebra problems in 2 steps and SHE couldn't. She said I was cheating. And the square root of 69 is 8.3, Mister smarty pants!!