Holy cow!

These statues are evidence that the people of the region worshiped oxen and humped cows 3000 years ago.

O_o

The article in includes a picture of the statue, and I can't see how this stands as evidence that they humped cows 3000 years ago!

That's a troll?!

Behind the cut is a picture of one of my alts - in this case a mage character who I sometimes play on Cenarius.

When I showed this picture to a friend at work, he said, "That's a troll?!"
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I made the mistake of bringing up the "Monty Hall" theorem yesterday.  That entailed 30-minutes of diagrams and explanation to convince a co-worker of the answer.  At one point I actually ran some simulation software for him to illustrate the odds in practise.

He still didn't get it.  "It's 50/50 I tell you!"

I finally drew a multi-coloured grid to represent the three doors in all three states, and it finally clicked for him.  He grudgingly admitted that, as counter-intuitive as the answer is, he could see that it worked.  I'll have to keep this diagram in mind the next time I feel masochistic enough to bring this one up again.