From: utzoo!watmath!watarts!bernie
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Title: Re: Physicist joke
Article-I.D.: watarts.1642
Posted: Tue Jan 25 09:11:05 1983
Received: Fri Jan 28 09:29:05 1983
Reply-To: bernie@watarts (Bernie Roehl)
References: cwruecmp.427

The original ending I heard to the joke went something like :
No, we haven't solved it yet, but we've laid a lot of theoretical groundwork.
Consider a spherical horse...
(longer versions include frictionless racetracks and massless jockeys)
                      --not afraid to admit that I used to be a physics major,
                         Bernie Roehl
                         ...decvax!utzoo!watmath!watarts!bernie