A young lady and young lad are about to embark on their first date, and, as is always the case, the young lady is still getting prepared when the young lad (with all the usual 'young lad' ideas of what to do with the young lady) arrives to pick her up. Introductions have been made, and he now has to endure the twenty questions from her father.
"So, you do understand that my daughter is in the top of every one of her classes?"
"Yes sir. She's quite the genius"
"What about yourself, are you doing well in school?"
Lying, the kid slickly replies "I'm not such a brightly-shining star as your daughter, sir, but I can hold my own in school"
"I understand she's not the prettiest girl in the school, what with the acne and all, but do you, you know, find her attractive? Physically?"
Once again, thinking quickly, the boy says "Those cute braces and thick glasses are kinda cute to me, actually"
In all honesty, this girl could be the stand-in for Ugly Betty, but this guy was out to get laid, and knew this girl was desperate. The father, sensing something is amiss (the loud car and backwards baseball cap were some of the more subtle clues), decides to lay down the law.
"Well you have to understand, I don't want some idiot to end up dating my daughter and distracting her from her studies, so if you could just solve for x in the equation 'Two x squared plus three x squared equals twenty', I'd be happy to let you take her out tonight."
The lad's jaw drops. The father grabs a small piece of paper and writes it down for him
2x2 + 3x2 = 20
The kid realises this is do or, ahem, 'not do' time, and asks for a calculator. The father obliges, and after a few minutes the boy triumphantly yells out.
"4!"
The father grabs the boy by the ear, drags him to the door, and promptly kicks him out the house, as the boy falls over on the porch, the father says one thing before slamming the door shut.
"You did real well, but you didn't think to get the root of the square."
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