Dragaera

Sword Jokes.

David Dyer-Bennet dd-b at dd-b.net
Mon May 8 11:40:32 PDT 2006

Tsarren <tsarren at alyra.org> writes:

> 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."

The spherical cow is generally associated with physics.  

At Minicon this year, one also showed up for Ask Dr. Mike:

<http://www.dd-b.net/gallery/picpage/ddb/SnapshotAlbum/data/2006/04140-Minicon/140-friday?pic=ddb%2020060414%20020-025>
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