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From: aeq@pucc-h (Sargent)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: stagehand joke
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Date: Sun, 15-Jan-84 17:14:18 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan 15 17:14:18 1984
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This might be a bit obscure to those who haven't had much contact with the
theatre, but here goes:

A psychological test was once given to three people:  a physicist, an
engineer, and a stagehand.  The test consisted of leaving each of them alone
for half an hour in a room containing a chair, a table, and three steel
balls.  The results were as follows:

The physicist had arranged the three steel balls on the tabletop so as to
form a remarkably precise equilateral triangle.  The engineer had (in a
feat of engineering, of course) managed to balance all three balls one on top
the other.  But there were no steel balls to be found in the stagehand's room.
When he was asked to explain this, he answered:  "Well, there were only two
here when I got here, the promoter stole one, and I lost the other one."