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From: ladkin@kestrel.ARPA (Peter Ladkin)
Newsgroups: net.jokes,net.ham-radio
Subject: Re: "The Case of the Poor Planner"  (clean)
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Date: Mon, 24-Feb-86 23:13:54 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 24 23:13:54 1986
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In article <307@telesoft.UUCP>, bruceb@telesoft.UUCP (Bruce Bergman @favorite) writes:
> 
> This was taken from the latest issue of the newsletter my ham
> club puts out.  I can't vouch for it's authenticity, but the
> ham who contributed it is a pretty reliable source.
> 
There is a recording of Gerard Hoffnung reading this at the
Oxford Union, which I highly recommend.
It's at least 25 years old, so it might be hard to find.

A joke? Let's see....

An engineer, a physicist and a mathematician are shown a
room with a long upright tube on the floor, with a ping
pong ball at the bottom, and a pitcher of beer. 
The problem is...how to get the ball out?
The engineer empties the beer into the tube, and of course
there's not enough. He breaks the tube to get the ball out.
The physicist empties the beer into the tube, and blows
hard down the side to blow the ball out.
The mathematician drinks the beer and waits......

A joke you say? But it's Monday.