I really should know better

[madbaker]

I stole farmount's joke for my header at work:
"What did you do to the cat, dear? It looks half dead." -Mrs. Schrodinger

And I got the following message from someone I occasionally deal with:
"excuse my ignorance, but who is Mrs. Schrodinger?"

...

I got the same sort of non-appreciation awhile back when I used the header
"Loki, Eris, and Coyote walk into a bar, and the bartender says 'Order, please.'"

Comments

[goldenstag.livejournal.com]

I stopped trying to tell jokes at work a long time ago. It just wasn't worth the annoyance at how ignorant of literature and mythology and science my cow-workers were (and I know lots of folk who could tell plenty of jokes that would go right over my head, and am okay with it ...). (I love the second one, btw ...)

[tshuma]

Yes, the second one is one of my favorites, too. I try not to tell jokes at work anymore -- my sigline has remained the somewhat harmless "Blessed are the easily amused, for they shall be," for two years now.

yesyesyes

[corva.livejournal.com]

*from a card carrying member of the Easily Amused Club*

[madbaker.livejournal.com]

I find it's a frequent hazard of being a liberal-arts major in the financial field. That, and having a wide variety of interests (beyond golf).

[goldenstag.livejournal.com]

Heh. Yeah, I am sure that has a lot to do with it, but it's not just the financial field, trust me. <g>

[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

I like that Coyote one! Not sure if I have a soft spot for Coyote because he's a dog, or because of the trickster aspect.

I also like this one, which can be appreciated by the over-educated (even folks like me who don't have any ancient languages; you pick up a few things anyway):

A Centurian walks into a bar. "I'd like a martinus, please."
Bartender: "Do you mean a martini?"
Centurion: "If I'd wanted two of them, I'd've asked for two."

[madbaker.livejournal.com]

I've always enjoyed that one.

[tshuma]

Yes! another of my favorites!

[scendan.livejournal.com]

LMAO!!!

I love the second one!

[spiderdust.livejournal.com]

These are the same Philistines who preferred an apple pie from Albertsons over one of your pastries, aren't they?

[madbaker.livejournal.com]

(grits teeth) I had managed to put that out of my head until now, thankyouverymuch.

But yes.

[blkeagl.livejournal.com]

It's ok.. not all us Philistines are um... Philistines. *heh* *heh*

[spiderdust.livejournal.com]

oops.

From someone who actually majored in physics as an undergrad and grad student...

[fionnbharro.livejournal.com]

"She's Schrodinger's wife, Fuzzhead."

Duh...

[fionnbharro.livejournal.com]

Actually, the 'half-dead' thing doesn't actually work.

See, the whole point is that the cat is both 100 percent alive, *AND* 100 percent dead *UNTIL* you look in the box, whereupon one half of the wavefunction (the 'Ket' portion) collapses to zero.

So, she wouldn't see a half-dead cat.

Re: Duh...

[madbaker.livejournal.com]

Repeat after me: "It's a joke."

In the same vein...

[zyxwvut.livejournal.com]

Professor Heisenberg gets pulled over for speeding, and the trooper asks him, "Do you know how fast you were going?"

"No, but I know where I am."

Z

P.S.: I much prefer to stop this joke at the comma, but the entirety is included for completeness.

I daresay I'm about to pick a nit

[fionnbharro.livejournal.com]

This assumes, of course, that he knows his mass exactly in all frames.

You'll undoubtedly recall that the relationship is between position and *momentum*, not position and velocity.

Momentum (for clarification) being the product of mass and velocity.

Re: I daresay I'm about to pick a nit

[zyxwvut.livejournal.com]

Repeat after me: "It's a joke."

Z

P.S.: Deja vu?

Re: In the same vein...

[madbaker.livejournal.com]

(snerk) Hadn't heard that one.

[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

"Stop slouching towards Bethlehem!" -- The mother of the Beast