For those of you who don't know Pikachu (not the Pokemon, the other one), you missed something special.



Once upon a time in space,
Quite near the x-y plane
I came across a curve who was
So obviously insane.

A carefree, happy curve was he,
He spent both day and night
Plaguing math profs ‘round the world
And giving them a fright.

For when they thought they had him graphed
He’d suddenly inflect.
And being perverse, he’d turn around
And then self-intersect.

He’d go, hit on the circles and,
Seduce the kinky squares.
He’d try to touch his asymptotes
And feel their ordered pairs.

The profs at Harvard soon gave up
He drove them all to tears.
The profs at Brown claimed that he was
The sum of all their fears.

The profs at MIT (you know,
They’re such a cool, hep bunch!)
They tried and tried, and fail, and sighed
And then went out for lunch.

The profs at Caltech tried to hold
A small math convocation.
The profs at UPenn all gave up
In anger and frustration.

The profs at Yale are orderly,
they sat and tried in pairs.
The profs at Bhaggu … Nevermind
‘Cos no one really cares.


The math community at large
Was quite depressed and sad,
And claimed it never saw a curve
So misbehaved and mad.

But when I saw this curious curve
I smiled, because I knew
A creature who could help me out
And that was Pikachu.

And Pikachu approached the curve
And smiled his dreamy smile.
He blinked his eyes (which mesmerize)
And stood there for a while.

The curve, he seemed to be in shock
For he had never seen
A boy so clueless and so dumb,
And frankly, so obscene.

Then Pikachu began to speak,
His English gone awry.
In his ghastly Madu voice,
He asked him, “Vot’s up, bhai?”


The curve grew pale, he screamed to me
(His voice was filled with fear)
“I swear I’ll do the things you ask,
Just GET HIM OUT OF HERE!”

“I swear, I swear, I shall be good
And I shall go get graphed.
I will not be the way I was,
I swear I won’t be daft.


And ever since this incident
The curve was never bad.
He never freaked out on the graph,
He never acted mad.

So if your curve does misbehave
Don’t fret, here’s what to do:
Just go ahead and intersect
Your curve and Pikachu.