Occupation Specific Jokes

I found an article in the Wall Street Journal and sent it to my friend Gumby. he has a thing for the Large Hadron Collider and this article dealt with the physicists who hired a stand up comic to teach them stand up comedy.

I thought it was amusing. My favorite joke was "Do my bosons give you a hadron?"

Gumby in his blog thought otherwise.

But it does give rise to the age-old question: Do occupation specific jokes really work?

I am going to have to say NO, based upon Steve Martin's Plumber joke.

So, I hear we have some plumbers in the house tonight - big plumbing convention in town this week - so I thought I'd make a special joke, just for you, the plumbers, so here we go.

If you're not a plumber, please sit tight, laugh along anyway, the joke is hilarious even if you don't get it. Because you're not a plumber. But if you ARE a plumber, you'll love it.

So, here we go. Big plumbing joke.

So, these two guys are working on a golf course reticulation system and the first guy says to his buddy 'George, I can't get this flange backed off.' Well, old George looks over and says 'Jeez Pete, you need to use a 3/4" gangly wrench on a Hobson spigot'. Pete says 'I am, pass me yours, maybe mine's broken'. So George... George passes his tool across .. and then Pete says 'GANGLY wrench? I thought you said DANDY wrench!!'..

I think Gumby may be on to something

Geeks In Space - A Science Post for Gumby

Space - the Final Frontier. These are the voyages of the
starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: To explore strange new worlds. To seek out new life and new civilizations. To boldly go where no man has gone before.

Thanks to Gene Roddenberry these are words known to billions of people and most especially to the geeks of the world. Don't get me wrong - I love the original Star Trek series but I like to think that i am not geeky enough to refer to it as TOS (for "The Original Series").

Well who does refer to it as TOS? The Paramount marketing department and Geeks - many of whom are Gamers (Science proves there is a high correlation between the state of geekdom and the state of gamedom).

But at least the Gamers will realize their Final Fantasy (not bad, huh? huh?).

"Lord British" the nickname Geeks have given to video game designer Richard Garriott, has decided to launch "Operation Immortality".

He's going to take the DNA of any player of his game "Tabula Rasa" into space when he goes to the International Space Station aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket.

His website, Operation Immortality, is not launched yet but has the phrase "Leave Your Mark. Save Humanity". The site apparently launches today.

But let's think a few steps ahead.

What happens if some malevolent space being ( let's say Ricardo Montalban as Khan) gets all of the DNA, extracts it and synthesizes it into one unstoppable monster.

What would it look like?

Scientists have come up with an artist's conception. You can access it here. But I warn you. it is not pretty.

Lord British ought to think twice.

My friend Gumby

My friend Gumby wrote an excellent post about the 100th Anniversary of the Tunguska Blast

You can read about it here.

He is a scientific guy. You can believe his explanation or you can listen to me.

It was the crash of a very large UFO.

Russian Scientist Alexander Kazantsev documents quite clearly how a Martian spaceship trying to get fresh water (sound familiar????? remember the Mars Rover DID just find evidence of water on Mars - Brian DePalma had it right) from nearby Lake Baikal when it blew up.

See, the composition of water on Earth is H2O.

On Mars, the composition of water is H2O2.5.

It was that extra 2.5, Kazantsev hypothesized, that did not comport well with the Martian technology and which caused the spaceship to explode with the force of 185 Hiroshima bombs, leveling the remote outpost.

Click Here for another horrific picture of the blast.

Kazantsev hypothesized even further that the martians were friendly to us puny earthlings giving us such things as Ayers Rock, the Colossus of Rhodes, the Sphinx and Millard Fillmore.

After the Tunguska blast the martians turned on us and wreaked havoc on earth until a crash of one of their smaller non-nuclear powered ships occured in 1947 in Roswell, New Mexico.

If you click here you can get an actual picture of the crash site from 1947.

It's all true.

I mean, it's on the internet.

It follows that it must be true.