The following pseudomathematical proof was posted to rec.games.board:
On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Joe Brennan wrote:
> What about this:
>
> We know that women like two things, your time and your money
> Therefore
> women = time x money
> now time equals money, so
> women = money x money
> Money is the root of all evil, so
> money = square root of evil
> By squaring both sides of the equation,
> money squared = evil
> Now go back to the equation
> women = money x money
> See where I'm headed?
> women = money squared = evil
A problem with this "proof" occurred to me immediately: Since evil is negative, the square root of evil must be imaginary, which would mean that money is imaginary, and therefore, by definition, so is time.
Then I realized that, in my life at least, that's pretty much true.