Saturday, March 01, 2008

An anecdote

Scene: two old guys in a locker room- knee braces, bald heads- discussing what sounds like complicated physics theory and complaining about how stupid the undergrads in their classes are. Then...
Prof 1- "I saw the most interesting thing on the Discovery channel the other day. There was this man walking, somewhere in the American Southwest, I guess, with this bobcat. Not like petting it, but it was walking beside him like it was trained. Anyway, there is this rattlesnake sunning itself on a rock. The man goes and looks at it for a while and then starts to walk away. He turns back and yells "Fuck you!" to the snake. The thing comes exploding out at him, fangs out, hissing and whatever, and the bobcat springs on it and kills it right on the spot. Doesn't eat it or anything, just kills it. Damndest thing..."
Prof 2- "That sounds like Newton's 4th Law of Don't Fuck with Bobcats."

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