Three doctors of science in a hotel room. Then the ceiling lamp burned out. What follows is true enough to be worth telling.
The mathematician warmed his drink between both palms and asked, nodding toward the table: "Did you know that if you put a lightbulb in your mouth with the base facing out, you cannot get it back out again?"
The two physicists objected. Urban legend. Physically impossible. Mass, volume, geometry - it must come back out. One of them picked up the bulb to prove it. It did not come back out.
What happened over the next few hours involved a taxi driver, a policeman, and a surgeon who had clearly seen things.
I wrote it down because teams do exactly this every day.
Sober. With worse outcomes.
The ending is the best part. I am not going to tell it here.
Read the full story in my Newsroom - if it made you laugh, make your friends laugh too:
Three doctors of science in a hotel room. Then the ceiling lamp burned out. What follows is true enough to be worth telling.
The mathematician warmed his drink between both palms and asked, nodding toward the table: "Did you know that if you put a lightbulb in your mouth with the base facing out, you cannot get it back out again?"
The two physicists objected. Urban legend. Physically impossible. Mass, volume, geometry - it must come back out. One of them picked up the bulb to prove it. It did not come back out.
What happened over the next few hours involved a taxi driver, a policeman, and a surgeon who had clearly seen things.
I wrote it down because teams do exactly this every day.
Sober. With worse outcomes.
The ending is the best part. I am not going to tell it here.
Read the full story in my Newsroom - if it made you laugh, make your friends laugh too:
