Re: FRI: Variation on the doctor-plumber joke
From: Kim Elise Goldman (goldman@calweb.com)
Mon Sep 25 10:07:36 2006
Awesome....this is perfect!
Kim
On Sep 25, 2006, at 10:37 AM, DoctorJoe@aol.com wrote:
> /* This one is a little brainy... */
>
> (But I'm sure y'all can handle it.)
>
> A professor of mathematics noticed that his kitchen sink at
> his home leaked. He called a plumber. The plumber came the
> next day and sealed a few screws, and everything was working
> as before.
>
> The professor was delighted. However, when the plumber gave
> him the bill a minute later, he was shocked.
>
> "This is one-third of my monthly salary! My wife's gynecologist
> doesn't charge this much!" he yelled.
>
> Well, all the same he paid it and then the plumber said to
> him, "I understand your position as a professor. Why don't
> you come to our company and apply for a plumber position?
> You will earn three times as much as a professor. But
> remember, when you apply, tell them that you completed only
> seven elementary classes. They don't like educated people."
>
> So it happened. The professor got a job as a plumber and his
> life significantly improved. He just had to seal a screw or
> two occasionally, and his salary went up significantly.
>
> One day, the board of the plumbing company decided that
> every plumber had to go to evening classes to complete the
> eighth grade. So, our professor had to go there too. It just
> happened that the first class was math. The evening teacher,
> to check students' knowledge, asked for a formula for the
> area of a circle. The person asked was the professor. He
> jumped to the board, and then he realized that he had
> forgotten the formula. He started to reason it, and he
> filled the white board with integrals, differentials, and
> other advanced formulas to conclude the result he forgot. As
> a result, he got "minus pi times r square."
>
> He didn't like the minus, so he started all over again. He
> got the minus again. No matter how many times he tried, he
> always got a minus. He was frustrated. He gave the class a
> frightened look and saw all the plumbers whisper: "Switch
> the limits of the integral!!"
>
> Joe P.
>
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