Not that many years ago a class of math students whose majors were in Chemistry, Physics and Engineering were being introduced to the Law of Diminishing Halves in Calculus. Simply stated, they were told that if they approached an object by taking an initial step then a step equal to of one half the remaining
Christoffer and Tuva, his wife moved back home to Wisconsin from Arizona. Tuva had a wooden leg and to insure it in Arizona was $2,000 a year!!! When they arrived in Wisconsin, Christoffer and Tuva went to Sven’s Insurance agency to see how much it would cost to insure the wooden leg. Sven looked it up on his
Yesterday Cheryl and I went for dinner at Red Robin Gourmet Burgers, for a hamburger or two. We had a nice evening with Kay and Herschel. The humor started; Humor can sometimes occur when I’m around. Cheryl’s burger and that of Mr. Weintraub came out of the kitchen with the wrong cheese and possibly the
Perhaps as long ago as forty, maybe fifty years ago, my dad told a version of the story below. I have to admit, I did not retain the memory of each of his words but I’m pretty sure the gist of it is retained in my recanting of the story below. My telling of tales
LITTLE CHILDREN HAVE LEARNED: No matter how hard you try, you can’t baptize cats. When your Mom is mad at your Dad, don’t let her brush your hair. If your sister hits you, don’t hit her back. They always catch the second person. Never ask your 3-year old brother to hold a tomato. You can’t
In the early seventies, we lived in Goose Bay Labrador and I worked for Canadian Marconi maintaining Tropospheric Scatter Radio systems linking Goose Bay with the rest of the country. Tropospheric Scatter systems allowed relatively wideband communications between sites several hundred miles away. At that time broadband microwave systems had not made their way to
Do you know who makes the rules? As sportsmen, it is absolutely imperative that in all of the sports we engage, we, without hesitation, play by the rules …… We take care to understand the rules, we discuss the rules amongst ourselves, and we study the rules ….. As golfers, we are ruled by the rules
With a very seductive voice the woman asked her husband, “Have you ever seen Twenty dollars all crumpled up?” “No,” said her husband. She gave him a sexy little smile, unbuttoned the top 3 or 4 buttons of her blouse, and slowly reached down into the cleavage created by a soft, silkypush-upbra, and pulled out a crumpled Twenty
A lady goes to her priest one day and tells him, ‘Father, I have a problem. I have two female parrots, but they only know to say one thing’ ‘What do they say?’ the priest asked. They say, ‘Hi, we’re hookers! Do you want to have some fun?’ ‘That’s obscene!’ the priest exclaimed, Then he thought
Don’t forget to read to the end because there is a really cool tune. With all of today’s newscasters telling us about the flu epidemic and the hundreds who may die, a story has come to light one that Doctor Doom cannot possibly make up. It is not a pretty story…. it concerns over