Wednesday, May 06, 2009

Persistence pays

Science advances. It has been determined that a physicist’s beard takes about 58.8 days to grow an inch. Assuming the physicist shaved at 7 a.m. on 1st May, it would be 12 minutes past 2 in the morning on 20th June before each hair in his beard was an inch long. Okay, maybe 11 minutes past 2. Such a long wait. Physicists have it tough (Tough? Enter stage left, the Gillette Mach III ..).

If this is true, we can also posit that a civil servant’s beard grows faster than a physicist’s. Now to collect the data.

I can foresee some fun with the tests, oh dear yes.

The writing on the ...

If you can read this site without laughing out loud, give me a shout and I'll send you a year's supply of laxatives, you obviously need them.

Heads-up - I got the links off blogs I check, but what with clicking off Bloglines and getting some lunch and taking 294 phone calls and checking on the despatch centre, I have NO idea which blogs they're off.

So if you posted them first or think you did, yo da man. Or, as the case may be, woman.

6 comments:

Idling in Top Gear said...

Lol @ the text website.

I am sure you'd agree that a sample of 1 proves nothing. :)

Sucharita Sarkar said...

My. my aren't some men pernickety about their beards? I can just imagine some narcissistic physicist gazing at his own beard in adoring contemplation, vernier callipers and a stopwatch in hand...

Great link, BTW.

gauri said...

You know what's going to be fun? Watching how many people go lol or rofl at that website just to avoid getting a (y)earful from you :D

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m'mita said...

Loved the text website -- I am thinking each text is 'twitter' worthy - 'twitterable' maybe?

I see that you had a link to 'futilitycloset'. I am a frequent visitor too.

Lazyani said...

The physicists are also surely hit by recession-- otherwise spending time researching on 'a beard second'----!!!!!!!!

Your text website link is mindblowing-- I mean you must have blown your mind to be there:)

J. Alfred Prufrock said...

Top Gear, I have no idea about the sample size of physicists. Civil servants - I'm in Punjab!

SS, you don't appreciate their Sacrifice for Science

Gauri, are you suggesting that I am intimidating? I?!

M'm, I just discovered futilitycloset and I can't see the point of Twitter

Ani, I suspect that's my default option

J.A.P.