From buddy Mon Nov  7 19:26:25 1994
Date: Mon, 2 May 1994 09:54:49
Subject: Forwarded mail....

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Q: What do you get if you cross a mosquito and a mountain climber?
A: You can't: a mosquito is a vector and a mountain climber is a
scalar.
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A Senior mathematician was asked which language he used for some of his
computing. He replied that he used a very high level language:
RESEARCH STUDENT
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And from a particle physics course :
 "This course will contain a lot of charm and beauty but very little
 truth."
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In the true style of Cambridge Maths Tripos we have the following:
 "Proof of Thm. 6.2 is trivial from Thm. 6.9"
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Why do mathematicians insist on using words that already have another
meaning?
 "It is the complex case that is easier to deal with."
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Talk about ulterior motives...
"This handout is not produced for your erudition but merely so I can
practice the TeX word-processor."
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