Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site unc.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!mcnc!unc!glassner From: glassner@unc.UUCP (Andrew S. Glassner) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: professions Message-ID: <15@unc.UUCP> Date: Fri, 5-Oct-84 11:52:24 EDT Article-I.D.: unc.15 Posted: Fri Oct 5 11:52:24 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 6-Oct-84 07:10:57 EDT Organization: CS Dept., U. of N. Carolina at Chapel Hill Lines: 23 < "The complex plane? You mean like a 747 ?" > One evening a chemist was sleeping in a hotel room, adjoining the building where a conference was being held. The wiring in the room was faulty, and the chemist was awakened in the middle of the night by a small but growing fire in the middle of the room. He looked at the fire for a moment, got up, went to the bathroom, and opened the medicine chest. He mixed up various stuff, went back into the room, and threw the solution onto the fire, putting it out. He then went back to sleep. The next evening a mathematician was in the same room, and he too was awakened by a small fire in the middle of the room. The matematician sat up, looked at the fire, stated "There exists a solution," and went back to sleep. -Andrew Andrew Glassner unc!glassner "Perturbation will grow hair on your palms"