Tom Foote wrote:
>
> Tweets--
>
> Here's a something to liven up your rainy day...
>
> Tom
>
> There was a biology student who was studying equilibrium in sea birds. He
> proposed that giving measured doses of various hallucinogenic substances
> and observing their flight patterns would give some insight to the problems
> of equilibrium in three dimensional space. This tale taking place in a more
> liberal era, the student got the funding. He filled out mountains of forms,
> set up a lab with a supply of sea birds, and proceeded on his way. After
> a year of diligent work, groveling monthly before the review commitee to
> get his stipend, and living with stoned sea birds, he completed his study.
>
> With trembling hands, he delivered his 247 page report, complete with charts
> and graphs, to the review commitee. This august body peruses his study,
> asking penetrating questions and reducing our student to jello. Finally,
> the department head rises. The light reflects off her steel rimmed glasses
> as she stares down at our student.
>
> "There is a lot of good work here," she says. "But we can't accept this
> report. You have detailed marvelously the effects of all these substances
> on these sea birds, but you have no control group."
>
> Our student turns pale and says, "You don't mean..."
>
> "Yes. I'm afraid so. You left no tern unstoned."HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
Fantastic!

Z. Thompson
zath at u.washinton.edu