The Homework Machine Gets Math Wrong

HOMEWORK MACHINE The Homework Machine, oh the Homework Machine Most perfect contraption that's ever been seen. Just put in your homework, then drop in a dime, Snap on the switch, and in ten seconds' time, Your homework comes out, quick and clean as can be. Here it is—“nine plus four?” and the answer is “three.” Three? Oh me . . . I guess it's not as perfect As I thought it would be.

A poem describes a magical machine that instantly completes homework, but it answers “nine plus four” incorrectly as “three.” The joke is the machine’s exaggerated promise of perfection collapsing because of a basic arithmetic mistake, making it suitable as a reaction to unreliable shortcuts or overconfident solutions.

• @gentoomemes / 7903 2023-12-08