Illuminati-R-Us

Well, this came to my email inbox as part of the customized amazon.com sales pitch. Any good?

Looks right up your ally to me. :D

I probably wouldn't make it past page 2...

I'm not sure. I hadn't heard of it, but the price is good so I added it to my wishlist for future consideration.

Khrushchev's Other Shoe wrote:Well, this came to my email inbox as part of the customized amazon.com sales pitch. Any good?

Wow, KOS. Wish I could read that stuff. Kind of.

True story. When I was a teenager, I went to a "necking party" with a girl.

I attempted to impart to her my knowledge of Einsteins Theory of Relativity.

"Kiss me, you fool"

"Just as soon as I explain gravity wells ... " :?

Guess I was kinda shy.

Too soon old, too late smart.

Well, I ordered it ages ago. If it comes sometime before the end of the universe, I'll find out if I can read that sort of thing...

Khrushchev's Other Shoe wrote:Well, I ordered it ages ago. If it comes sometime before the end of the universe, I'll find out if I can read that sort of thing...

They'll send it to your address the day after you die.

KLA2 wrote:I attempted to impart to her my knowledge of Einsteins Theory of Relativity.

"Kiss me, you fool"

Sounds like she was hoping you'd switch to astronomy instead. OBAFGKM and all that. :P

Isn't Einstein credited with saying something like, "I don't recognize Relativity now that the mathematicians have gotten a hold of it?"

MM_Dandy wrote:Isn't Einstein credited with saying something like, "I don't recognize Relativity now that the mathematicians have gotten a hold of it?"

I believe he made some disparaging comments about Minkowki's space-time formulation of special relativity, saying that the mathematicians had made relativity to complicated for the physicists to understand. But as my source said (going by memory here), the joke was on Einstein, because in 1912, he realized that Minkowski's formulation was the key to solving the problem of gravity.

I seem to recall another story about Minkowski, that during a seminar, he said, "This is obvious," then stared at it for a minute, went off to his office for 15 minutes, then came back and said, "Yes, this is obvious" :P

umop ap!sdn wrote:Sounds like she was hoping you'd switch to astronomy instead. OBAFGKM and all that. :P

{Sigh.} Can we get a dictionary of acronyms on this forum?

The last acronyms I understood were:

http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/hair/initials.htm

:wink:

Oh be a fine girl kiss me.

It's how to remember the different classes of stars.

obafgkm

Khrushchev's Other Shoe wrote:I seem to recall another story about Minkowski, that during a seminar, he said, "This is obvious," then stared at it for a minute, went off to his office for 15 minutes, then came back and said, "Yes, this is obvious" :P

Superluminal wrote:Oh be a fine girl kiss me.

It's how to remember the different classes of stars.

obafgkm

Dang. I HAVE heard that one. Very witty, umop. A belated
Thanks, Superluminal.
{hangs head and slinks out of threasd}

*bows*