DOCTOR, DOCTOR
Today's Guardian has a short feature about scientists and their favourite jokes. Who knows what the point of this is - presumably to show that scientists, serious as they are perceived, are in possession of a SoH. Or that even the cleverest people are partial to a crap joke. Here are some:
Martin Rees, Astronomer Royals and professor of cosmology and astrophysics at the University of Cambridge said "One cartoon I like has a salutary message for 'pure' scientists who get above themselves and don't appreciate technology":
A rabbit and a beaver are looking up at the Boulder Dam. The beaver is saying "I didn't actually build it, but it's based on my idea".
Which kind of disproves my first idea about the point of running the article.
Marcus du Sautoy, professor of maths at Oxford University and author of Music of the Primes:
Q: How can you spot an extrovert mathematician?
A: He looks at your shoes when he talks to you.
(My fave of all the jokes, although this next one is good too.)
Raj Persaud, consultant psychiatrist and senior lecturer at the Maudsley Hospitals and Institute of Psychiatry, and presenter of All in the Mind, on Radio 4:
Q: How many psychoanalysts does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: Two, one to change the lightbulb and another to hold the penis. Sorry! - ladder.
Can't be bothered to type many more out, but this last one is piss-poor. The kind of thing printed on ice-lolly sticks.
Susan Greenfield, professor of pharmacology at Oxford University, director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain and member of the House of Lords.
Q: What is an ig?
A: An Eskimo's home without a loo.
Did I miss something here?
Today's Guardian has a short feature about scientists and their favourite jokes. Who knows what the point of this is - presumably to show that scientists, serious as they are perceived, are in possession of a SoH. Or that even the cleverest people are partial to a crap joke. Here are some:
Martin Rees, Astronomer Royals and professor of cosmology and astrophysics at the University of Cambridge said "One cartoon I like has a salutary message for 'pure' scientists who get above themselves and don't appreciate technology":
A rabbit and a beaver are looking up at the Boulder Dam. The beaver is saying "I didn't actually build it, but it's based on my idea".
Which kind of disproves my first idea about the point of running the article.
Marcus du Sautoy, professor of maths at Oxford University and author of Music of the Primes:
Q: How can you spot an extrovert mathematician?
A: He looks at your shoes when he talks to you.
(My fave of all the jokes, although this next one is good too.)
Raj Persaud, consultant psychiatrist and senior lecturer at the Maudsley Hospitals and Institute of Psychiatry, and presenter of All in the Mind, on Radio 4:
Q: How many psychoanalysts does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: Two, one to change the lightbulb and another to hold the penis. Sorry! - ladder.
Can't be bothered to type many more out, but this last one is piss-poor. The kind of thing printed on ice-lolly sticks.
Susan Greenfield, professor of pharmacology at Oxford University, director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain and member of the House of Lords.
Q: What is an ig?
A: An Eskimo's home without a loo.
Did I miss something here?
