On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 05:59, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > I think a goodly percentage of the population here will find this amusing... > > >Werner Heisenberg, Kurt Godel and Noam Chomsky walk into a bar. > >Heisenberg looks around the bar and says, "Because there are three of > >us and because this is a bar, it must be a joke. But the question > >remains, is it funny or not?" And Godel thinks for a moment and > >says, "Well, because we're inside the joke, we can't tell whether > >it's funny. We'd have to be outside looking at it." And Chomsky > >looks at both of them and says, "Of course it's funny. You're just > >telling it wrong."
An engineer, a physicist, and a mathematician find themselves in an anecdote; indeed an anecdote quite similar to many which you've no doubt already heard. After some observations and rough calculations, the engineer realizes the situation and starts laughing. A few minutes later, the physicist understands too and chuckles to himself happily, as he now has enough experimental evidence to publish a paper. This leaves the mathematician somewhat perplexed, as he had observed right away that he was the subject of an anecdote, and deduced quite rapidly the presence of humor from similar anecdotes, but considers this anecdote to be too trivial a corollary to be significant, let alone funny. --B -- Brian McNett: Forensic Spam Investigator Work: <http://consult.spamresource.com/> Play: <http://www.mycoinfo.com/> Online Store: <http://store.mycoinfo.com/>
