From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!menlo70!sytek!zehntel!tektronix!teklabs!marijoa
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Title: the REAL meaning
Article-I.D.: teklabs.1712
Posted: Wed Feb  2 15:21:51 1983
Received: Sun Feb  6 05:17:28 1983

              ITEM                            MEANING

1.  It has long been known.........      I haven't bothered to look up the
                                         original reference, but...

2.  Of great theoretical and practical
    importance.....................      interesting to me

3.  While it has not been possible to
    provide answers to these
    questions........................    the experiment didn't work out but
                                         I figured I could at least get a
                                         publication out of it

4.  Three of the samples were chosen
    for detailed study...............    the results of the others didn't
                                         make any sense

5.  Typical results are shown here...    the best results are shown

6.  It may be that...it is believed
    that... it is suggested that.....    I guess

7.  It is generally believed that....    a couple of other guys think so too

8.  Agreement with the predicted
    curve is:
                  Excellent..........    Fair
                  Good...............    Poor
                  Satisfactory.......    Doubtful
                  Fair...............    Imaginary

9.  It is clear that some additional
    work is needed before a complete
    understanding....................    I don't understand

10. Unfortunately, a quantitative
    theory to account for the results
    has not been completely
    formulated.......................    no one else understands it either

11. Correct within an order of
    magnitude........................    wrong

12. Thanks are due to Joe Glotz for
    assistance with the research and
    to Stan Smart for his valuable
    insight..........................    Glotz did the work and Smart explained
                                         what it meant

13. Apparently.......................    it is not clear

14. It is obvious....................    I think that is the way it should be
                                         but I can't explain why

15. Due to sample shortages, I was
    unable to duplicate my analysis
    to determine the source of
    variation........................    I was confident of my lab procedure
                                         so I stupidly discarded the samples
                                         before receiving the results

16. Additional research is needed....    I could sure use the funding