Forks and Spoons ....amidst them lies a mathematical thought :-

It's strange that most of my mathematical thoughts emerge when I eat at the canteen. It was a dull evening .Dull for me because I had a bad cold that day. I was in a mood to eat something hot that could cure my cold. The only hot stuff I could find that day was Maggi .

I was delighted to eat my favourite snack , favourite partly due to the fact that Naruto eats Ramen :)  )
But was sad as I couldn't find a fork .   I began searching for it in a bowl full of spoons.

Meanwhile my nose began to trouble me.  But I didn't cease my search.  Finally I found one.
I was happy that I could eat Maggi with a fork and not a spoon after a long time.

Amidst the steam of hot Maggi I got a thought... This time it was outlier detection.

This thought emerged due to the fact that I had to search for a fork in a bowl which looked like it had only spoons . But as the search went on I found a fork.

In a similar way in Statistics an Outlier is an observation point that is distant from other observations.
This may be due to variability in data or due to an experimental error. 

In a giver data set finding an observation which is distant from others is known as outlier detection.

Another analogy to this is given by Prof.Charlie Eppes in NUMB3RS in the following video:-

The maggi was good and so the mathematical thought !

"A mathematician is a scientist who can figure out anything except such simple things as squaring the circle and trisecting an angle."  -Evan Esar ( Esar's Comic Dictionary)