From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!cmcl2!philabs!sdcsvax!sdccsu3!sdcvax!filip
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Title: Absent-Minded Professor joke
Article-I.D.: sdcvax.126
Posted: Fri Jan 21 00:06:22 1983
Received: Thu Jan 27 21:06:09 1983

One of my favorite A-MP jokes is one that I heard about the mathematician
Norbert Weiner.  It went something like this:

	The Weiners, who lived in Cambridge, were to move to another
	part of the city.  Because Norbert was so absent-minded,
	Mrs. Weiner decided to condition him to remember about the
	move.  So, starting a month in advance of the move date, she
	told him as he left for the university in the morning, "Norbert,
	remember, thirty days from today you are take bus B home,
	not bus A."  "Yes, dear", Norbert replied.  The next day she
	repeated, "Remember Norbert, 29 days from now you are to take
	bus B home, not bus A."  "Yes, dear", Norbert replied.  Well,
	this went on each morning until the day of the move.  "Norbert,"
	Mrs.  Weiner reminded him, "today we are moving."  "Today you
	must take bus B home, not bus A." "Yes, dear", Norbert replied.
	That evening, as expected, Norbert took bus A to his old home
	and discovered it empty.  "Oh, today was the day we were to
	move", he remembered.  Returning to Harvard Square on bus A,
	he caught the B bus and took it to what he remembered was 
	the correct stop.  But he then discovered that he had forgotten
	the address of his new house, so he began wandering around
	hoping to spot his house.  After a considerable time had
	elapsed and it began to get dark, he spotted a little girl
	standing under a street lamp.  He approached her and inquired,
	"Little girl, would you happen to know where the Weiners live?"
	"Oh, come on, daddy," she said, "I'll take you home."


				Signed:
				(Ah, ah...what's my name again?)
					"Filip."
				(Thank you.)