I rather like this one.
I rather like this one.
Could this one tickle carl's funny bone?
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Jack Williams
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Re: I rather like this one.
Has to be the Catholic Church.
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Not necessarily, could be high Anglican/ Episcopalian
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Thanks for that one, Sarongman, as it did tickle my funny-bone.
It was good to see that Higgs and his colleagues, one of whom is sadly deceased and therefore ineligible for, received the Nobel Prize for physics this year. The original work was done almost 50 years ago, but that shows the power of the human mind to grab onto things and make sense of them. It's only recently that our technology has been up to the task of actually proving it out, one way or the other.
This is quite a bit different from when we flew men to the moon, and returned them safely to the Earth in the late 1960s, largely on slide-rule calculations, celestial navigation, and an idea from a (then regarded as crazy) Russian's idea (dating to the 19-teens) of Lunar Orbit Rendezvous. Of course since we all know that that was faked on a soundstage someplace we can omit it. (Was it Bean or Aldrin that punched out a conspiracy-theorist at one point? What are we to do when he passes into the Great Beyond?)
It was good to see that Higgs and his colleagues, one of whom is sadly deceased and therefore ineligible for, received the Nobel Prize for physics this year. The original work was done almost 50 years ago, but that shows the power of the human mind to grab onto things and make sense of them. It's only recently that our technology has been up to the task of actually proving it out, one way or the other.
This is quite a bit different from when we flew men to the moon, and returned them safely to the Earth in the late 1960s, largely on slide-rule calculations, celestial navigation, and an idea from a (then regarded as crazy) Russian's idea (dating to the 19-teens) of Lunar Orbit Rendezvous. Of course since we all know that that was faked on a soundstage someplace we can omit it. (Was it Bean or Aldrin that punched out a conspiracy-theorist at one point? What are we to do when he passes into the Great Beyond?)
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I now know it is possible to groan and chuckle simultaneously...
As a matter of fact, the sun DOES shine out of my ...
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Her's a couple of other physics jokes:-
Two atoms are walking down the street.
One atom says to the other, "Hey! I think I lost an electron!"
The other says, "Are you sure?"
"Yes, I'm positive!"
What is the difference between a physicist, an engineer, and a mathematician?
If an engineer walks into a room and sees a fire in the middle and a bucket of water in the corner, he takes the bucket of water and pours it on the fire and puts it out.
If a physicist walks into a room and sees a fire in the middle and a bucket of water in the corner, he takes the bucket of water and pours it eloquently around the fire and lets the fire put itself out.
If a mathematician walks into a room and sees a fire in the middle and a bucket of water in the corner, he convinces himself there is a solution and leaves.
Two atoms are walking down the street.
One atom says to the other, "Hey! I think I lost an electron!"
The other says, "Are you sure?"
"Yes, I'm positive!"
What is the difference between a physicist, an engineer, and a mathematician?
If an engineer walks into a room and sees a fire in the middle and a bucket of water in the corner, he takes the bucket of water and pours it on the fire and puts it out.
If a physicist walks into a room and sees a fire in the middle and a bucket of water in the corner, he takes the bucket of water and pours it eloquently around the fire and lets the fire put itself out.
If a mathematician walks into a room and sees a fire in the middle and a bucket of water in the corner, he convinces himself there is a solution and leaves.
"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on" - Winston Churchill.
"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it" - Joseph Goebbels
"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it" - Joseph Goebbels
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dillon wrote:I now know it is possible to groan and chuckle simultaneously...
Would that be a "gruckle"?
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Optimist: "The glass is half full!"skirtingtoday wrote:If a mathematician walks into a room and sees a fire in the middle and a bucket of water in the corner, he convinces himself there is a solution and leaves.
Pessimist: "The glass is half empty."
Engineer: "The glass is twice as big as it needs to be."
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Optimist: the glass is half full
Pessimist: the glass is half empty
Realist: the water is polluted anyway
Pessimist: the glass is half empty
Realist: the water is polluted anyway