tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post1691141511960726762..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: VertiginousUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-57286229294231266572014-06-10T13:21:50.655-07:002014-06-10T13:21:50.655-07:00When the cobwebs of legend are finally brushed awa...When the cobwebs of legend are finally brushed away, the original author of this tale will still be up there, at the edge of the tall building, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aB8I63JFB8" rel="nofollow">working on a solution to the problem...</a>TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-34419948212039667392014-06-09T20:09:52.246-07:002014-06-09T20:09:52.246-07:00I liked Aram's joke. Very funny, Aram!
But uh...I liked Aram's joke. Very funny, Aram!<br /><br />But uh-oh, I now learn somebody has actually taken this as an authentic autobiographical anecdote, from my student days<br /><br />Sheesh.<br /><br />The wisest person I know has long held that there are two things that simply do not translate into Internet.<br /><br />1. Joke; or anything faintly resembling same.<br /><br />2. Tone.<br /><br />The story is about a hundred years old, and has had at least a million permutations among physics nuts. It's generally agreed that in the "original" version the "student" was Niels Bohr, in his graduate student days at the University of Copenhagen.<br /><br />But myths are a form of poetry and as such always founded in lies, as we all know.<br /><br />And the astonishing part -- I first heard the story from someone who said they knew somebody who first heard it at Trader Joe's.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-44144360557004336442014-06-09T16:24:59.785-07:002014-06-09T16:24:59.785-07:00Our esteemed Los Angeles correspondent Aram Saroya...Our esteemed Los Angeles correspondent Aram Saroyan sends this along:<br /><br />__<br /><br />Re Vertiginous (maybe): A friend heard a woman at Trader Joe’s talking about a friend: “She’s having some problems. Her son has been diagnosed with HDTV.”<br /><br />__<br /><br />(And I wondered anachronistically: can it be his antenna needs adjusting?)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-6881848197380266432014-06-08T08:30:22.628-07:002014-06-08T08:30:22.628-07:00Thanks very much for popping in at the ward, Dunca...Thanks very much for popping in at the ward, Duncan and Curtis.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-22154429761793059082014-06-08T03:43:46.227-07:002014-06-08T03:43:46.227-07:00What a great story. Wonderful pictures also. &quo...What a great story. Wonderful pictures also. "Back-story" not so great, obviously. CurtisACravanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00315707533118640284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-11207574723376281252014-06-08T01:46:50.180-07:002014-06-08T01:46:50.180-07:00Vertigo has set in at the wooden house, both boy a...Vertigo has set in at the wooden house, both boy and girl. I'm glad the janitor didn't go into the details; my stilts would've given way.Mose23https://www.blogger.com/profile/01100756913131511440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-5967084149085474432014-06-07T11:12:06.251-07:002014-06-07T11:12:06.251-07:00The student in this tall story may have been yours...The student in this tall story may have been yours truly, or then again it may not, after a while the stories all run together and it's not easy to keep the identities sorted without a scorecard (or for that matter to make out the scorecard without a magnifying glass). In any case, vertebral fracture incurred in being run over by that demented Jetta has left your blog host unable to look up or down, so when the janitor said that that tall story had made him dizzy, I told him I understood completely, and enquired whether he might not perhaps know any short ones.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.com