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Re: Origin of the old barometer story

I'm puzzled! I'll swear this is a "revisitation" of a thread of ~ a year ago. Then
someone referred to the Sat. Review of Lit. article (single page) of ~ 45 years ago (-- I
also still remember the accompanying line drawing of the student offering the barometer to
the "Super."), and others posted much more.

bc


"djhamil@teleport.com" wrote:

Herb,

As westerner who has also lived in a NYC apartment building, let me offer my
services as a translator. Judy is referring to the Super.

Dave from Portland
(where apartment complexes have resident managers but neither janitors nor
superintendents)
--
Dr. Dave Hamilton, President
Oregon Science Teachers Association

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From: Herbert H Gottlieb <herbgottlieb@JUNO.COM>
To: PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu
Subject: Origin of the old barometer story
Date: Tue, May 23, 2000, 6:24 PM


By the way, Judy... you wrote that the defendant knocked on the door
of the janitor and said that he would give the janitor a lovely barometer
if
the janitor would tell him the height of his building. The question
that I have
for you now is ...... "Who, or what, and how old, is a janitor?"

Herb Gottlieb from New York City
(Where we now have lots of building custodian engineers and
apartment house caretakers..... but janitors ? ? ? )