THIS IS ABOUT MATHS, TURN AWAY NOW
My Engineering Mathematics lecturer (all good stories start like this) was explaining how to convert from cartesian to polar co-ordinates during multiple integral calculus doing mathsy things.

In his west country accent, he went on to explain
"... so you get arrrr de arrr de theeterrrr"

and kept repeating "arrr de arrr de theeterrrr"
amongst many a titter from the group of students in the lecture room.

It was the closest approximation to pirate maths I am ever likely to encounter.

Also, seeing as that was a fairly dreadfull story, have a joke:
A mathematician and an engineer were each tied to chairs. A naked woman stood an equal distance from both of them. The two men were told that the distance between them and the woman would be halved every five minutes. The mathematician cries out "Oh no! I'll never get there! I'll just keep getting closer until I'm an infinitesimal distance away."
The engineer calmly states "I'll get close enough for all practical purposes"
(tarbin tarbis, tarbit, tarbamus, tarbimus, tarbant, Wed 11 Mar 2009, 21:44, 1 reply)

/Pedant
You don't need integration to convert from cartesian to polar or vice versa... it's a simple little formula that I sadly can't remember right now. Mainly because my calculator can do it for me in about three seconds.
(Potty Jag har smör i min rumpspringa, Thu 12 Mar 2009, 8:46, closed)