The Story of Joe Sine
— Answer Key
A Puzzle by David Pleacher



One day Joe Sine went to call on his new neighbors who lived in the adjacent   house.   He was a handsome   tangent, a confirmed bachelor.     Joe was met at the door by two sisters who had anything but   congruent   figures.  

The first, Deca Gon, had real construction problems.     Her   discontinuous curves were intersected at various   angles by   parallel   lines.     The second sister, Polly Gon, was dressed in a pretty coordinate   set and it was obvious that her natural curves ran into   imaginary   numbers.    Just looking from the first to the second, Joe found his
interest compounding rapidly.   What poor Joe did not know was that Polly knew all the angles and was an expert at taking   squares.

Joe was invited to come in and sit down.
Deca proved to be as square as she looked and just sat there like a   log.     Polly, at a given sign,   sent Deca out to find some   roots to make tea.

While she was gone, Polly served Joe   sum pi.     Then she used the   corresponding  angle and Joe was soon reduced to   zero   power.

Next, she introduced an "If... Then  proposition.     "That is, if Joe would marry her, then ...   Well, Joe said, "yes," but then began to consider the possibility of spending the rest of his life adjacent  to her side.     He began to get very nervous and his head was going in   circles.   He knew she was a   complex number and he was really afraid of her.     So, he tried to make her think that he was   odd by asking, "Do   unit?", pretending that he did.     When that didn't work, he stood up and announced that he was going to the bus   terminal to
median, his true beloved.



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