Incoherent fraction

An incoherent fraction, also known as a buggery fraction and bastard number, is a type of fraction that makes no sense, makes some sense, or makes marginal amounts of sense every other tuesday. Like their cousins lurking variables, incoherent fractions have been known to hold innocent civilians at gunpoint before riding off into the sunset. Except lurking variables don't actually do that second bit.

Yesterday I ran into one. It didn't have a gun or even a knife, but its interest seemed primarily to lie with a nearby tree. It was about three feet tall, two feet wide, and holding an axe. And using the axe. And generally using the axe on the tree, whilst holding it. I would have stuck around, but then the tree fell on my car and I had to get out of there on account of that not actually having been my car.

Unfortunately when you steal a car with intent to return it, this does not leave much room for totalled cars. Or fractional cars. Or certainly not incoherent fractions of cars. I think it might still be chasing me.

Do you have a shotgun I can borrow?

It is important to control for confounding

Taken our of context, this statement seems like a sound guiding principle in ones life life life... The constant fog is maddening enough. If precognitive analyses yielded such gems as to elude us from our proper paths, then perhaps Liberation may yet be possible.