[Phys-L] Re: sliding orange?

[John Clement <clement@HAL-PC.ORG>]

Sadly one of the baad physics in-jokes has been deprecated by the standards
committee.

What do you call a ( you make a crawling motion like a spider with your
hand).
Answer: cm
What do you call a ( you now put your hand upside down and make a quivering
motion)
Answer:  an erg
  Remember an erg is a dyne-cm.

> Perhaps Herb is not 'up' on recent Quentin Tarantino films and the
> exploits of John Travolta (about ten years ago IIRC)
>
> NOT to be confused with any Clock Work Oranges.
>
> > Perhaps, it would make more sense if we re-wrote the sliding orange
> joke...
> > What did the physics professor get when he sliced an orange in half
> > and slid it down an inclined
> > plane?
> >
> > Ans... pulp friction
> >
> > >  Glenn Malin <GMalin@IUSD.ORG> wrote:
> > >  > And for something completely different:
> > >  >
> > >  > What do you call an orange sliding down and inclined plane?
> > >  > Pulp Friction
> > >
> > >
> > >  Herb Gottlieb responds:
> > >  I'm STILL really not sure if I get or not it
> > >  but maybe the incline was too  plane or too steep for me.
> > >
> > >  Now I'm "inclined" try one...
> > >
> > >  What do you call an apple thrown out of a car window?
> > >  An apple dumpling?
> > >  A windowed apple?
> > >  An apple that nobody cars about?
> > >  A declined apple?
> > >  A dis car dead apple?
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