IDU the 3rd one. I guess that’s supposed to be Einstein so it must be supposed to have something to do with relativistic time dilation, but it doesn’t actually make any sense.
@ Dave – It’s a comic, so it doesn’t have to fit perfectly with the science, but it plays on the way that Einstein’s relativity makes measurements (of dimensions, durations, and mass) dependent on the observer’s frame of reference. Just because they are in the same bed doesn’t mean that they share the same viewpoint.
I’m pretty sure I heard that second Einstein story, that Brian references, on an early 60s spoken voice LP called “Edward Teller explains The Theory of Relativity, and The Size and Nature of the Universe”. (The two titles were titles for the two sides of the disc.).
Dave in Boston: “IDU the 3rd one. I guess that’s supposed to be Einstein so it must be supposed to have something to do with relativistic time dilation, but it doesn’t actually make any sense.”
Wasn’t Einstein’s analogy for relativity the difference in perception between one second of burning yourself on a hot stove and an afternoon of making love? The first seems to take forever, the second passes in an instant? Or something like that.
An excellent collection today, thank you Bill. The first set me up, some pleasant little revelatory gag, The second was a great gag, made me smile; I hadn’t seen that concept used before. The third took a … beat beat beat … to make me laugh out loud. I rarely laugh out loud. Then a simple send off with another new gag. A fine way to start the rest of my day.
Albert Einstein slept around quite a bit, according to recent books and articles. I don’t know whether he fully satisfied all those women, or whether they had to be satisfied with the knowledge that they were done by one of the most famous people in the world.
woozy: There are three choices: (1) he’s moving away from her very rapidly, but he isn’t, except maybe metaphorically — one might make a decent joke out of that but the comic hasn’t done so; (2) he’s so fat that time runs slower for him (but he’s not); or (3) he’s talking BS to paper over being no good in bed, but in that case what’s the joke?
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All good, and all new, as far as I can remember.
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IDU the 3rd one. I guess that’s supposed to be Einstein so it must be supposed to have something to do with relativistic time dilation, but it doesn’t actually make any sense.
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@ Dave – It’s a comic, so it doesn’t have to fit perfectly with the science, but it plays on the way that Einstein’s relativity makes measurements (of dimensions, durations, and mass) dependent on the observer’s frame of reference. Just because they are in the same bed doesn’t mean that they share the same viewpoint.
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And that one does feel familiar. But not all of them. The airplane safety demo , whether new or old, was a good chuckle.
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The Einstein one is along the lines of the quote that he supposedly originated, comparing subjective time for events.
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/11/24/hot-stove/
In this case, it’s the event experienced by different people.
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#2 has a typo. I was born in 1961, not 1951.
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I’m pretty sure I heard that second Einstein story, that Brian references, on an early 60s spoken voice LP called “Edward Teller explains The Theory of Relativity, and The Size and Nature of the Universe”. (The two titles were titles for the two sides of the disc.).
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Dave in Boston: “IDU the 3rd one. I guess that’s supposed to be Einstein so it must be supposed to have something to do with relativistic time dilation, but it doesn’t actually make any sense.”
Oh, Dave….. Dave, Dave, Dave…..
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Wasn’t Einstein’s analogy for relativity the difference in perception between one second of burning yourself on a hot stove and an afternoon of making love? The first seems to take forever, the second passes in an instant? Or something like that.
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An excellent collection today, thank you Bill. The first set me up, some pleasant little revelatory gag, The second was a great gag, made me smile; I hadn’t seen that concept used before. The third took a … beat beat beat … to make me laugh out loud. I rarely laugh out loud. Then a simple send off with another new gag. A fine way to start the rest of my day.
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That was in an earlier timeline, Carlfink
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Albert Einstein slept around quite a bit, according to recent books and articles. I don’t know whether he fully satisfied all those women, or whether they had to be satisfied with the knowledge that they were done by one of the most famous people in the world.
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woozy: There are three choices: (1) he’s moving away from her very rapidly, but he isn’t, except maybe metaphorically — one might make a decent joke out of that but the comic hasn’t done so; (2) he’s so fat that time runs slower for him (but he’s not); or (3) he’s talking BS to paper over being no good in bed, but in that case what’s the joke?
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