On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 01:03:16PM -0500, Tsarren wrote: > 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." I'm used to that being the punchline of a physicist joke. My wife made one to give to Dr. Mike this past Minicon - DD-B has a picture up at http://www.dd-b.net/gallery/picpage/ddb/SnapshotAlbum/data/2006/04140-Minicon/140-friday?pic=ddb%2020060414%20020-025 -- Scott Raun sraun at fireopal.org