{"id":646,"date":"2004-04-30T09:22:26","date_gmt":"2004-04-30T16:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2004\/04\/equations_and_relations\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T13:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T17:49:09","slug":"equations_and_relations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2004\/04\/equations_and_relations.html","title":{"rendered":"EQUATIONS AND RELATIONS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Jan Herman (but don&#8217;t know where from)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>Romance Mathematics<\/b><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Smart man + smart woman = romance <br>Smart man + dumb woman = affair <br>Dumb man + smart woman = marriage <br>Dumb man + dumb woman = pregnancy <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>Office Arithmetic<\/b><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Smart boss + smart employee = profit <br>Smart boss + dumb employee = production<br>Dumb boss + smart employee = promotion <br>Dumb boss + dumb employee = overtime<br> <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>Shopping Math<\/b><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A man will pay $2 for a $1 item he needs. <br>A woman will pay $1 for a $2 item that she doesn&#8217;t need. <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>General Equations &amp; Statistics<\/b> <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband.<br>A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.<br>A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend.<br>A successful woman is one who can find such a man.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>Happiness<\/b> <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To be happy with a man, you must understand him a lot and love him a little.<br>To be happy with a woman, you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all. <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>Longevity<\/b><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Married men live longer than single men, but married men are a lot more willing to die.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>Propensity to Change<\/b> <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A woman marries a man expecting he will change, but he doesn&#8217;t.<br>A man marries a woman expecting that she won&#8217;t change, and she does.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>Discussion Technique<\/b> <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A woman has the last word in any argument.<br>Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Jan Herman (but don&#8217;t know where from) Romance Mathematics Smart man + smart woman = romance Smart man + dumb woman = affair Dumb man + smart woman = marriage Dumb man + dumb woman = pregnancy Office Arithmetic Smart boss + smart employee = profit Smart boss + dumb employee = productionDumb boss [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-main","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-aq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75988,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions\/75988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}