On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 11:49:41AM -0700, Shawn Burns wrote: > > The Vallista joke is the perfect place to insert the Engineer Joke Steve > alludes to: > > How many Vallista does it take to sharpen a sword? > Assume a spherical sword... > I thought that was a mathematician joke, but I may not be thinking about the same joke. The jokes of which I know involve a mathematician and two other scientists (one of which is usually an engineer, the other a biologist or chemist); the latter two come up with practical solutions to things, while the mathematician has the punchlines, one of which is, "assume a spherical cow." Kat