Discussion on: Development Humor as Thought Provoking Material http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/customapps/development-humor-as-thought-provoking-material/ Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:06:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.1 By: Applause14 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/customapps/development-humor-as-thought-provoking-material/#comment-40 Applause14 Wed, 06 Feb 2008 04:11:34 +0000 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/customapps/development-humor-as-thought-provoking-material/#comment-40 Hi Joe, As a philisophical note to your post, it becomes extremely important the more serious your work is to break out once in a while and just bust up laughing. As an example of this, I am of the opinion that Albert Einstein left us with one for the records. E=MC2. Of course we are all familiar with this equation where matter times the speed of light equals energy. Who better to leave us with an enigma that can't possibly be proven and maybe history will show (in light years ahead) that he wasn't even close and that it was all a sense of humor, laughing at us mere mortals who go out tanning in the sun, getting sunburns, even though the earth is 93 million miles from the sun (average)? Here's one: we pay $3 a gallon for gasoline which travels on ships, trucks, and pipelines, while the sun is free, and when the sun is gone there are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on earth (true). So, I say we send a space shuttle to the Sun to plant a flag and take ownership of the Sun before the French do. We'll make the sun stop shining unless the arabs pay, and put it on ships, trucks, and pipelines so that General Motors will notice and turn it into profit. That's your next project, Joe: go for it! Bottled Sunshine available at all JOEC Markets. Directions: Open bottle, leave out in sunshine for 1 minute, add water and stir. Cover and store in refridgerator. Light will never go out as long as your fridge light works. Regards, Peter Hi Joe,
As a philisophical note to your post, it becomes extremely important the more serious your work is to break out once in a while and just bust up laughing.

As an example of this, I am of the opinion that Albert Einstein left us with one for the records. E=MC2. Of course we are all familiar with this equation where matter times the speed of light equals energy. Who better to leave us with an enigma that can’t possibly be proven and maybe history will show (in light years ahead) that he wasn’t even close and that it was all a sense of humor, laughing at us mere mortals who go out tanning in the sun, getting sunburns, even though the earth is 93 million miles from the sun (average)?

Here’s one: we pay $3 a gallon for gasoline which travels on ships, trucks, and pipelines, while the sun is free, and when the sun is gone there are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on earth (true).

So, I say we send a space shuttle to the Sun to plant a flag and take ownership of the Sun before the French do. We’ll make the sun stop shining unless the arabs pay, and put it on ships, trucks, and pipelines so that General Motors will notice and turn it into profit.

That’s your next project, Joe: go for it!
Bottled Sunshine available at all JOEC Markets.
Directions:
Open bottle, leave out in sunshine for 1 minute, add water and stir. Cover and store in refridgerator. Light will never go out as long as your fridge light works.

Regards,
Peter

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