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posted May 26, 2005 01:31 AM         

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Einstein never has to dress well.
When Einstein's Wife told him to dress properly when going to the office
he argued: "Why should I? Everyone knows me there."
When he was told to dress properly for his first big conference:
"Why should I? No one knows me there."

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Norbert Wiener was very absent minded. When they moved from Cambridge to Newton; his wife was certain that he would forget that they had moved.So she wrote down the new address on a piece of paper, and gave it to him. In the course of the day, he threw the paper away. As he went home (to the old address in Cambridge, of course),he realized that they had moved,and that the piece of paper with the address was long gone.
There was a young girl on the steps and he thought of asking her, saying, "Excuse me young lady, perhaps you know me. I'm Norbert Wiener and we've just moved. Would you know where we've moved to?"
To which the young girl replied, "Yes Daddy... mommy said this would happen.."

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After the birth of his sister Maja, the two and a half year old Albert Einstein was told he would now have something to play with. After looking at the baby, young Albert complained "Yes, but where are its wheels?"

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George de Hevesey suspected that the leftovers from his dinner were not thrown away, but kept for the next day. To check that he added a minimal amount of a radioactive substance to his leftovers. The next day he tested the goulash soup that was served to him with a Geiger counter. The soup was indeed radioactive. And this way radioactive tracers were discovered.

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Albert Einstein once went to a restaurant. The waiter placed menu-card before him. Unfortunately Einstein had left his reading-glasses (spects) at home, so he said to waiter," would you please read it out to me ?"
The waiter hesitated a bit and then replied," I would have been glad to, Sir, but I am also an illiterate like you."

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posted May 26, 2005 04:46 AM         

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I can't think of a "scientist" joke but I'll forward a "royal" joke (a true story).

Princess Anne was at a dinner once and spent an inordinate amount of time talking about horses to the guy on her left all evening, whilst completely ignoring the guy on her right (which is not considered very good manners). When she did eventually turn to him - to ask for the sugar - the guy tok two sugar lumps out of the bowl and presented them to her on the flat of his hand.

What happened next is anyone's guess...

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posted May 26, 2005 05:03 AM         

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THANKYOU sweetlibra !!!

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"The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle." Anais Nin

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posted June 03, 2005 09:46 AM         

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What did the proton say to the electron?

"Why so negative?"

A mushroom walks into a bar. The bartender points at him and says, "Hey! We don't serve your kind here!" The mushroom replies, "Why not? I'm a fungi!"

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posted June 03, 2005 09:55 AM         

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lol! 2 funny!

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posted June 03, 2005 11:19 AM         

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Bischoff, one of the leading anatomists of Europe, thrived in the 1870s.
He carefully measured brain weights, and after many years' accumulation of
much data he observed that the average weight of a man's brain was 1350
grams, that of a woman only 1250 grams. This at once, he argued, was
infallible proof of the mental superiority of men over women. Throughout
his life he defended this hypothesis with the conviction of a zealot. Being
the true scientist, he specified in his will that his own brain be added to
his impressive collection. The postmortem examination elicited the
interesting fact that his own brain weighed only 1245 grams.

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