Accidental innuendoFreddy Woo writes, "A woman I used to work with once walked into a car workshop to get her windscreen replaced, and uttered the immortal line, "Have you seen the size of my crack?"
What innuendos have you accidentally walked into? Are you a 1970s Carry On film character?
Extra points for the inappropriateness of the context
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chthonic, Thu 12 Jun 2008, 12:05)
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Scientists: not as mature as we once thought (pt.2)Back in the day when I was but a wee undergrad (ok, not all that long ago), Bearded Whumpus and myself were sat in a maths lecture.
The lecturer is giving an example of how a Fourier transform works on rect functions - also known as "boxcar functions," due to their rectangular shape. Nothing funny about that, surely?
Well, then he puts a coefficient next to it - let's start arbitrarily with "A." That right, A rect.
There's now a tension that can be felt throughout the lecture theatre. A room heaving with over 150 people who are all fixed rigid in slavering anticipation of the same joke.
And of course, this is physics: it has to have real-world applications - "So let's apply this to the energy in a system."
Common symbol for energy, anyone?
E rect
The sniggers came in ripples...like a wave washing over the crowd.
(, Thu 12 Jun 2008, 13:40, Reply)
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