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2006-10-23 
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Posted by Fred 2006-10-23 00:25|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 If she's ready for a header, so am I!
Posted by Zenster">Zenster  2006-10-23 02:26||   2006-10-23 02:26|| Front Page Top

#2 Get in line Zenster!
Posted by elbud 2006-10-23 04:07||   2006-10-23 04:07|| Front Page Top

#3 ima game!
Posted by RD 2006-10-23 04:50||   2006-10-23 04:50|| Front Page Top

#4 Wilson!
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2006-10-23 07:54||   2006-10-23 07:54|| Front Page Top

#5 Del Monte.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-10-23 08:51||   2006-10-23 08:51|| Front Page Top

#6 I've never seen a woman play vollyball wearing class A makeup and an evening dress.

OK. Now I'm officially turned on.

Posted by mhw 2006-10-23 08:52|| http://hypocrisy-incorporated.blogspot.com/]">[http://hypocrisy-incorporated.blogspot.com/]  2006-10-23 08:52|| Front Page Top

#7 Humor note, Greta what's holding the left one up? :)
Posted by Icerigger 2006-10-23 09:27||   2006-10-23 09:27|| Front Page Top

#8 Humor note, Greta what's holding the left one up? :)

I'm told by engineers that cantilevers can hold massive amounts of weight.
Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-10-23 10:01||   2006-10-23 10:01|| Front Page Top

#9 Play ball!
Posted by Mike 2006-10-23 10:04||   2006-10-23 10:04|| Front Page Top

#10 Reference: A Stress Analysis of the Strapless Evening Gown, Charles Siem.

Orig. pub. Worm-Runners Digest, 1959 (?).

Reviewed in the American Journal of Physics, September 1969 -- Volume 37, Issue 9, pp. 944-945
Posted by lotp 2006-10-23 10:09||   2006-10-23 10:09|| Front Page Top

#11 lotp, link password protected for the intelligentia and revenue generation. Any relevant bits or diagrams you can post under fair use?
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-10-23 10:45||   2006-10-23 10:45|| Front Page Top

#12 NS, you can see the original article with drawings, right?

Here's some of the review:

The joke ... is to use formal scientific language on incongruous subject matter. Engineer Siem approaches this task with considerable good humor ... "Figure 2 shows one of these cantilever beams [ed - a breast] (minus any aesthetical details) removed as a free body (and indeed, many such beams can be, in reality, removed as free bodies; e.g., certain artifacts). " and so forth.

The structure [ed - of the paper] is actually similar to that of most scientific papers .....


BTW, Siem was a well-known civil engineer responsible for some major bridges IIRC. Which makes the paper funny to those in the know.
Posted by lotp 2006-10-23 11:02||   2006-10-23 11:02|| Front Page Top

#13 Another one of the chapters in the book that reprinted Siem's Stress Analysis is this poem by John Updike, which I rather like:

Cosmic Gall

NEUTRINOS, they are very small.
They have no charge and have no mass
And do not interact at all.
The earth is just a silly ball
To them, through which they simply pass,
Like dustmaids down a drafty hall
Or photons through a sheet of glass.
They snub the most exquisite gas,
Ignore the most substantial wall,
Cold shoulder steel and sounding brass,
Insult the stallion in his stall,
And scorning barriers of class,
Infiltrate you and me! Like tall
and painless guillotines, they fall
Down through our heads into the grass.
At night, they enter at Nepal
and pierce the lover and his lass
From underneath the bed-you call
It wonderful; I call it crass.
Posted by lotp 2006-10-23 11:06||   2006-10-23 11:06|| Front Page Top

#14 Yes, got the original earlier in life, but thought the AJP might have new data that I had not been able to ascertain during my empirical investigations.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-10-23 11:08||   2006-10-23 11:08|| Front Page Top

#15 It's a topic that has inspired a great DEAL of ... um, scientific ... exploration, to be sure.
Posted by lotp 2006-10-23 11:11||   2006-10-23 11:11|| Front Page Top

#16 As well it should do! It's through the application of esoteric scientific principles to the mundane that critical insights can be achieved. Robert Feynman spoke of achieving one such key insight while watching a juggler spinning plates on sticks.
Posted by trailing wife 2006-10-23 12:34||   2006-10-23 12:34|| Front Page Top

#17 So sorry, but 'midst all them spinning plates, I could swear I thought I read a story about Kevin Tillman, and it's gone now after a re-boot.

Just like to say that he would have taken the $3 Mill contract, unlike his bro. God bless.
Posted by rhodesiafever 2006-10-23 15:14||   2006-10-23 15:14|| Front Page Top

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