Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for October 20, 2010
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Transcript:
Goat says, "Wow. That girl is pretty." Rat says, "Say something to her? don't you have a decent opening line?" Goat says, "I haven't used an opening line on a girl since I was an eighteen-year-old math major in college." Rat says, "Yeah. Well, you better say something fast. She's getting up to leave." Goat says, "did you knwo that pi is 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197716939937510582097474459230781640628620899...?" Goat says, "We math majors didn't date much."
I tried memorising pi to a large number of decimal places when I was at university, until I found out that the record even then was 20,000 and I gave up. I can still remember about the first 40.