{"id":27,"date":"2006-01-21T09:26:59","date_gmt":"2006-01-21T09:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/01\/21\/its-funny-cause-its-true\/"},"modified":"2006-01-21T09:26:59","modified_gmt":"2006-01-21T09:26:59","slug":"its-funny-cause-its-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/01\/21\/its-funny-cause-its-true\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Funny &#8216;Cause It&#8217;s True"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>We&#8217;ve had an <A HREF=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/01\/we_dont_need_no_stinkin_theore.php#comments\">outbreak of mathematician jokes<\/A> in comments, so it seems only fair to offer up a thread for the mockery of physics. Sadly, there really aren&#8217;t many good physicist jokes. My personal favorite:<br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<P>A physicist, a chemist, and a biologist get together for a few drinks, and get to talking about life, the Universe, and everything. Eventually the conversation turns to relationships, and what the ideal way to arrange relationships between the sexes would be.<\/p>\n<p><P>The biologist says &#8220;Well, as a believer in evolution, I feel that every person should sleep with as many other people as possible, in order to provide the greatest range of potential diversity for natural selection to work on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><P>The chemist says, &#8220;No, no, no- that&#8217;s all wrong. There are some bonds that are just too strong to break, and the marriage bond is one of those. Everyone should be strictly monogamous.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><P>They both turn to the physicst, who says, &#8220;Well, I think I&#8217;d sort of split the difference between those. I think every man should have one wife, and one mistress, and furthermore, each should be aware of the other.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><P>The other two are absolutely boggled. &#8220;Why in the world would you want <STRONG>that<\/STRONG>?,&#8221; they ask.<\/p>\n<p><P>&#8220;Well,&#8221; he says, &#8220;That way, if I wasn&#8217;t with my wife, she would assume I was with my mistress. And if I wasn&#8217;t with my mistress, she would assume I was with my wife. then I could go in the lab and get some work done.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/p>\n<p><P>Suggestions of other funny physics jokes are welcome in the comments. Also, see <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.albinoblacksheep.com\/flash\/einsteinjokes\/\">Jokes With Einstein<\/A> for an interesting take on classic math riddles.  Otherwise, have a nice weekend, and I&#8217;ll be back on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve had an outbreak of mathematician jokes in comments, so it seems only fair to offer up a thread for the mockery of physics. Sadly, there really aren&#8217;t many good physicist jokes. My personal favorite: A physicist, a chemist, and a biologist get together for a few drinks, and get to talking about life, the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/01\/21\/its-funny-cause-its-true\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It&#8217;s Funny &#8216;Cause It&#8217;s True<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-silliness","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}