[1171] in Humor
HUMOR: The Inventor, The Engineer and the Physicist
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew A. Bennett)
Tue Oct 31 08:50:18 1995
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 08:46:46 EST
From: "Andrew A. Bennett" <abennett@MIT.EDU>
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 95 18:49:08 MST
From: rmerz@redwood.dn.com
This one is from one of my co-workers:
A company decided it wanted to market a product that would quickly
and efficiently pluck chickens. It placed an ad requesting designs
for a chicken plucking device.
An inventor, an engineer, and a physicist responded to the ad. The
company interviewed the inventor first.
"I can invent a machine that will pluck 50 chickens an hour," the
inventor said.
The engineer was next. "I can invent a machine that will pluck
500 chickens an hour," the engineer said. This sounded better
than the inventor's 50 chickens per hour, but the company still
wanted to talk to the physicist.
The physicist said, "My design will allow you to pluck 50,000
chickens an hour!"
The company was amazed. "We have talked to a world-class inventor
who could build a machine that would pluck 50 chickens an hour. We
have talked to a world-famous engineer whose machine would be able
to pluck 500 chickens an hour. How is it that you can pluck 50,000
chickens an hour?!"
The physicist shrugged. "It's simple. First, you assume that
chickens are spherical..."
