Test Equipment Anonymous

stumbled over this Dad Jokes Challenge:

Just found this on another forum, thought I'd share it here as well.

mnem
snip.

You have successfully summoned a 19th order demon from the 337th layer of Hell. It bites off your torso then goes on a rampage, flattening downtown Cleveland before it is sent back to Hell by 4 teenagers.

mnem
Thank you for your heroic sacrifice; Cleveland needed it.

BU508A wrote: ↑Sat Nov 18, 2023 3:18 pm Screenshot_20231118_155711.png

ya' know....its funny. just the other day at a retirees lunch we were yackin' about manifolds in spacetime and i derived these equations on the back of napkin to explain how gravity couples to matter.

but then lunch came and someone spilled the au jus from his french dip. used the napkin to clean up and never got to the bit about ricci tensors.

Recently, on an island kingdom, not far away from here:

Look! It's a chemis tree!

BU508A wrote: ↑Wed Nov 22, 2023 9:07 am Look! It's a chemis tree!

I saw a bush like that in a Nantes' "Jardin des Plantes" in 1981 (yes, I've just checked the photo).

I've occasionally thought about it, since a few years later I started taking stereoscopic photos, and that is a subject that would be immensely improved when viewed in stereo. Sometimes flattie images just don't work well.

I wonder how big that bush is now, and what it's botanical name is. Anybody know?

BU508A wrote: ↑Wed Nov 22, 2023 9:07 am Look! It's a chemis tree!

Ah, poly-methyl chickenwire in its natural state.

This look!

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CzbZX7ZS ... VmZQ%3D%3D

Cerebus wrote: ↑Wed Nov 22, 2023 10:29 pm

BU508A wrote: ↑Wed Nov 22, 2023 9:07 am Look! It's a chemis tree!

Ah, poly-methyl chickenwire in its natural state.

I think poly-methyl razor wire is more accurate.

Here's my photo, from August 1981. Stereoscopic postos definitely enhance understanding.

one for our house-dwagon

That is a clear statement:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CytnVKNN ... FlZA%3D%3D

Q: Why is calibration of equipment so expensive in Australia?

A: Because the units have to be shipped to New Calidonia.

AVGresponding wrote: ↑Wed Nov 29, 2023 5:52 pmdoppler.jpg

Rather like that one. Saved

BU508A wrote: ↑Wed Nov 29, 2023 6:01 pm Q: Why is calibration of equipment so expensive in Australia?

A: Because the units have to be shipped to New Calidonia.

Cheaper than California.