Liberal Arts Blog —The Three Funniest Doctor Jokes Ever andThe Math Of Why
Liberal Arts Blog — Sunday is the Joy of Humor, Food, Travel, Practical Life Tips, and Miscellaneous Day
Today’s Topic: The Three Funniest Doctor Jokes Ever and the Math of Why
This week, a second interruption in our tour of the United Kingdom. Next time, I promise, we will finally get to our 29th episode — Durham, Tyre and Wear, and Northumberland. But, today, a detour to the land of medical humor. The short story: jokes are funny because they are true. The funniest jokes have multiple truths in one joke. Have you heard the duck hunting one?
Whatever your profession is, this would be a great time for you to share your profession’s funniest jokes. And cartoons, for that matter.
Experts — please chime in. Correct, elaborate, elucidate.
THE SURGEON, THE INTERNIST, THE PSYCHIATRIST, THE PATHOLOGIST — what’s the difference? (below Rudolph Virchow, the father of modern pathology)
1. The surgeon does everything but knows nothing.
2. The internist knows everything but does nothing.
3. The psychiatrist knows nothing, does nothing.
NB: The pathologist knows everything, does everything — but it’s too late.
THE ELEVATOR DOOR IS CLOSING — how do you stop it in an emergency?
1. The internist uses his hand.
2. The general surgeon uses his foot to save his hands.
3. The orthopedic surgeon uses his head.
NB: Variation: the radiologist tells the technologist to push the open door button.
THE DOLLAR BILL JOKE — how do you hide a dollar bill?
1. From an orthopedic surgeon? In a textbook.
2. From a radiologist? Tape it to the patient.
3. From a neurosurgeon? Tape it on his kid.
NB: From a plastic surgeon? You can’t hide a dollar bill from a plastic surgeon.
FOOTNOTE — the hard truth about accounting
What the Big Print Giveth, the Small Print Taketh Away.
QUOTE OF THE MONTH
“Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
My spin — then periodically review, re-rank, and exchange your list with those you love. I call this the “Orion Exchange” because seven is about as many as any human can digest at a time. Game?
LAST FOUR YEARS OF POSTS ORGANIZED THEMATICALLY:
PDF with headlines — Google Drive
ATTACHMENTS BELOW:
#1 A graphic guide to justice (9 metaphors on one page).
#2 “39 Songs, Prayers, and Poems: the Keys to the Hearts of Seven Billion People” — Adams House Senior Common Room Presentation, (11/17/20)
NB: Palestine Orion (Decision) — let’s exchange Orions, let’s find Rumi’s field (“Beyond all ideas of right and wrong, there is a field. Meet me there” Rumi, 13 century Persian Sufi mystic)
YOUR TURN
Anything miscellaneous to share? Best trip you ever took in your life? Practical life tips? Random facts? Jokes?
Or, what is the best cartoon you have seen lately? or in the last 10 years? or the last 50?
Or what is your favorite holiday food? Main course? Dessert?
Fondest food memories? Favorite foods to eat or prepare?
This is your chance to make someone else’s day. Or to cement in your mind a memory that might otherwise disappear. Or to think more deeply about something dear to your heart. Continuity is key to depth of thought.
