Over at Cosmic Variance, my second-favorite physics blog, they are attempting to tell bad physics jokes.
Well, the jokes are very bad. As in BAD bad, not good bad. Please, please help these people.
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I’m not a mad-scientist-physics-type person, but I know a bad joke:
Did you hear about the midget fortuneteller who escape from prison last week? The newspaper headlines read Small Medium at Large.
That’s all I got…
Ah, an oldie but goodie.
I would have contributed to that post, but it turns out I mostly know mathematician and engineer jokes, and physicists are just side characters. The only joke I know that’s just about physicists is the “assume a spherical cow” joke.
There was a wonderful physics cartoon I saw over ten years ago, entitled “How The Superconducting Supercollider Really Works”. It showed two Phil Gramms running in circles in opposite directions, on a collision course. The first was labelled “Conservative Republican Fiscal Responsibility” and the second was labelled “Pork for My State”. Or some such. Of course, that was back when people might actually have taken the first label seriously.
Um, the physicist joke to which you refer was, to my knowledge, about the difficulties of designing an automatic chicken plucker and the tag line was, “First, assume a spherical chicken.”
— Mom
I know the “spherical cow” joke using a cow. It involves various professions trying to improve the milk yield from dairy cows. Except, in the version I remember, the “First, assume…” folks are mathematicians.