Had this one emailed to me: A physicist, an engineer and a mathematician were all in a hotel sleeping when a fire broke out in their respective rooms. The physicist woke up, saw the fire, ran over to his desk, pulled out his CRC, and began working out all sorts of fluid dynamics equations. After a couple minutes, he threw down his pencil, got a graduated cylinder out of his suitcase, and measured out a precise amount of water. He threw it on the fire, extinguishing it, with not a drop wasted, and went back to sleep. The engineer woke up, saw the fire, ran into the bathroom, turned on the faucets full-blast, flooding out the entire apartment, which put out the fire, and went back to sleep. The mathematician woke up, saw the fire, ran over to his desk, began working through theorems, lemmas, hypotheses , you-name-it, and after a few minutes, put down his pencil triumphantly and exclaimed, "I have *proven* that I *can* put the fire out!" He then went back to sleep.
Had this one emailed to me:
ReplyDeleteA physicist, an engineer and a mathematician were all in a hotel sleeping when a fire broke out in their respective rooms. The physicist woke up, saw the fire, ran over to his desk, pulled out his CRC, and began working out all sorts of fluid dynamics equations. After a couple minutes, he threw down his pencil, got a graduated cylinder out of his suitcase, and measured out a precise amount of water. He threw it on the fire, extinguishing it, with not a drop wasted, and went back to sleep. The engineer woke up, saw the fire, ran into the bathroom, turned on the faucets full-blast, flooding out the entire apartment, which put out the fire, and went back to sleep. The mathematician woke up, saw the fire, ran over to his desk, began working through theorems, lemmas, hypotheses , you-name-it, and after a few minutes, put down his pencil triumphantly and exclaimed, "I have *proven* that I *can* put the fire out!" He then went back to sleep.
Ha Ha! Love it, Michelle!
ReplyDeleteI saw this and thought you might like it:
ReplyDeleteSo a frog walks into a bank.
He hops up to the teller and tells the lady...
"Hi I'm Kermit Jagger and I'd like a loan."
and she says,
"Hi, I'm Patricia Whack and I'd love to help you. But you can't have a loan without collateral."
and he says,
"Oh, that won't be a problem. I have this ceramic elephant, see?"
and she says,
"Mr. Jagger that won't really be enough. It has no value."
and he says,
"Let me speak with your supervisor."
So Patricia Whack gets her supervisor and explains the situation. She tells the bank manager,
"This frog says he needs a loan and all he has is this---I don't even know what this is--for collateral."
The bank manager says,
"It's a knick knack Patty Whack. Give the frog a loan. His old man's a Rolling Stone."