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From: hes@ecsvax.UUCP (Henry Schaffer)
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Re: Monkey Query
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Date: Wed, 6-Nov-85 22:43:18 EST
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>     I posed this problem to a theoretical physicist ...
>  Today I received a memo from him.  It started:
>                 "Assume a spherical monkey.........."
> 
> Martin Jordan  jordan@nosc.arpa

   That reminds me of the study a local biomathematician did on milk
production.  It started out, "Assume a spherical cow radiating milk
isotropically ..."    (Being a biomathematician at times I can tell
this story!)
--henry schaffer   (I feel sorry already.)