With the university campus closed down due to the pandemic, my cousin Vinnie the P. had to improvise a lab in his burrow. I dropped by his place the other day to see how he was fairing without his supercomputer and scanning electron microscope. He was in a surprisingly good mood. He was chattering on about how necessity was the source of some of the greatest scientific breakthroughs.
The other day, Vinnie got up early and went to his kitchen to make breakfast. As he searched through his cupboards he discovered they were almost completely empty. He had been so engrossed in his latest experiments he forgot to order groceries. All he had left was a tin of lard, five pounds of sugar and a yard full of snow. What would you do with these “ingredients”?
How about making deep fried snow donuts! Impossible you say? The hot oil would melt the snow. Leave it to Vinnie to overcome this “minor physics” problem. I must have eaten a half dozen of these delicious treats.
While I was munching deep fried snow donuts, Vinnie got a call from Swiss Academy of Sciences. They were calling to congratulate him on finding a new species of mammal. Apparently this is a really big to-do. A few weeks ago, Vinnie was bored with watching re-runs of the old McGyver show for the 10th time, so he hacked into the Woodpile security camera system. He was shocked to find a bobtailed raccoon nosing around the bird feeders. Thinking he had one too many cups of coffee that evening, he checked the next night and there it was again! This was the discovery of a century
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