Abbott And Costello Do Math

Does anyone else enjoy a carefree Saturday morning just consisting of eating countless bowls of cereal, pajama pants and, the best function, black and white television serial, such as I Dearest Lucy (1951-1957), I Dream of Jeannie (1965-1970), and Abbott and Costello. While televisions made their first advent in the late 1940s, William "Bud" Abbott (1895-1974) and Lou Costello (1906-1959) took over every blackness and white, and coloured, televisions as an American one-act couple whose on and off stage vaudeville, radio, motion picture and television work will make them legends in the world of comedy infinitesimally. Though, my fellow geeks, would y'all still be laughing if y'all knew that they engaged in arithmetics shenanigans that created much controversy amongst adolescents in the 50s?

7 x 13 = 28?

In one of their most famous films,In The Navy (1941) the dynamic duo was featured in an episode where Costello comes upward with a creative method of counting, where he displays three different ways of proving that 7 multiplied by 13 equals 28. Ironically, these three methods, multiplication, long division and addition, really make the perfect amount of sense. In that location has been much controversy nearly any possible subtraction methods that could further show Costello's assumption as, either, false or true. Unfortunately, equally of now, at that place is no improper or fake subtraction formula that would coincide with whatever of the comedian's calculations.

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10-Year Sometime and 40-Twelvemonth Old Romance?

In addition to false pre-algebraic methods and arithmetics, Abbott has successfully tricked his partner into believing that a 10-twelvemonth old lover would eventually catch up to his historic period, causing him to wait for her. In 1941, their second film, Cadet Privates, was a box function hit where they play the role of tie salesmen who enlist in the army as opposed to possible incarceration.

Abbott: Y'all're twoscore years old, and you lot're in love with a little daughter, say 10 years old. Y'all're four times every bit sometime equally that girl. You couldn't marry that girl, could you?

Costello: No.

Abbott: And then you wait v years. Now the fiddling girl is xv, and yous're 45. You're only three times as old as that girl. So yous wait 15 years more than. At present the little girl is 30, and you're 60. You're only twice as old equally that little girl.

Costello: She's catching upwardly.

Abbott: Here'southward the question. How long do you have to wait earlier you lot and that little girl are the aforementioned age?

Costello: What kind of question is that? That'southward ridiculous. If I keep waiting for that girl, she'll pass me up. She'll wind up older than I am. Then she'll accept to look for me!