Mr. Jim Podlesni, Calculus teacher at Stonewall Jackson High School, was asking for it the day he
started busting on yams. On the first day of Pre-Calculus he stood at the chalkboard and said, "Beauties," which
is what he called the class, "Tell me, what would the graph of the temperature of a yam in an oven over time look
like?" Matt raised his hand. "Flowers-creature, what do you think?"
"It'd start at the origin and increase like a square-root function!", Matt, or Flowers-creature, replied.
"Wait!" said Shannon, to whom Mr. Pod affectionately reffered to as Shannon-pooh, and who was widely recognized
as being one of the more insightful ones in the class. "Like, At some point, you would, like, take it out,
like, when it was done!"
The class agreed, and decided that the temperature at that point would begin to drop back down, until Mr. Pod
interrupted. "Just a minute. I ain't takin' that yam outa the oven. Yams are naaaasty. As far as
I'm concerned, that yam can stay in there forever!"
