Had the professor phrased the question a different way, the student's answer may not have been quite so sarcastic. The joke here was on the professor, not the student.
Len --- -----Original Message----- From: Ayash Kanto Mukherjee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 2:23 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: Long exposure guess On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Peifer, William [OCDUS] wrote: > > > I wish we had July 4th more often than once a year! > > Reminds me of a story from my academic days. My employer, a fairly new > assistant professor of chemistry, asked one of his Indian graduate students: > "Gopal, do you have the Fourth of July in India?" And of course, the > graduate student couldn't help but reply: "No, Jim. In India, we go > directly from the ~Third~ of July to the ~Fifth~ of July...." Har!! > > Bill Peifer > Rochester, NY And, what do you mean by that? Please explain. - Ayash. - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
