I don't get 10/28 Far Side
Dave Bushong
I don't understand the Far Side calendar for Wednesday, Oct. 28. On a
shelf there are three pickle-jar type things (like lab specimens)
and the caption is "Broca's brain, appendix, and baseball glove"
I guess Broca must be someone or some piece of culture that I
skipped over in my life.
Thanks in advance for the clue.
Dave
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Thomas Gerber
>
>I don't understand the Far Side calendar for Wednesday, Oct. 28. On a
>shelf there are three pickle-jar type things (like lab specimens)
>and the caption is "Broca's brain, appendix, and baseball glove"
>
>I guess Broca must be someone or some piece of culture that I
>skipped over in my life.
>
I do know the Far Side, but not that particular cartoon.
Anyway: I don't have my Neurology textbook handy, but Broca was a (French?)
Neurologist/Neurosurgeon/Neuroanatomist who I believe died in the early
1880's.
There is a Broca's area in the frontal lobe of the brain, a lesion of which may
lead to Broca's (motor) aphasia (a certain form of inability to speak).
Does this help? I am not sure how this fits in with a baseball glove ...
>Thanks in advance for the clue.
You're very welcome. I apologize for the lack of humor in my posting.
>
>Dave
>
- tcg
S. Axel Medlin
>I don't understand the Far Side calendar for Wednesday, Oct. 28. On a
>shelf there are three pickle-jar type things (like lab specimens)
>and the caption is "Broca's brain, appendix, and baseball glove"
>
(My mother has the book, I never read it.)
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Jonathon Sivier
>In article <Bx5Kp...@wang.com> dbus...@wang.com (Dave Bushong) writes:
>>I don't understand the Far Side calendar for Wednesday, Oct. 28. On a
>>shelf there are three pickle-jar type things (like lab specimens)
>>and the caption is "Broca's brain, appendix, and baseball glove"
>>
>BROCA'S BRAIN was a book on psychological analysis several years ago.
>(My mother has the book, I never read it.)
BROCA'S BRAIN is the title of a book by Carl Sagan. In the book he tells
the (supposedly true) story of Broca's brain. Broca was a scientist working
in psychology or physiology and when he died his brain was preserved in a jar
(as nearly as I can remember, it's been several years since I read the book).
So this cartoon is referring to the other item's of Broca's which might have
been preserved in jars. No too funnny when explained like this, but if you
knew the story of Broca's brain it was very funny. I got a good laugh out
of it when I first saw it.
Jonathan
Ben Magid
>shelf there are three pickle-jar type things (like lab specimens)
>and the caption is "Broca's brain, appendix, and baseball glove"
>
>I guess Broca must be someone or some piece of culture that I
>skipped over in my life.
>
>Thanks in advance for the clue.
>
>Dave
>
is not terribly.
David Kitaguchi
>In article E...@wang.com, dbus...@wang.com (Dave Bushong) writes:
>>
>>I don't understand the Far Side calendar for Wednesday, Oct. 28. On a
>>shelf there are three pickle-jar type things (like lab specimens)
>>and the caption is "Broca's brain, appendix, and baseball glove"
>>
>>I guess Broca must be someone or some piece of culture that I
>>skipped over in my life.
>>
>
>I do know the Far Side, but not that particular cartoon.
>Anyway: I don't have my Neurology textbook handy, but Broca was a (French?)
>Neurologist/Neurosurgeon/Neuroanatomist who I believe died in the early
>1880's.
>There is a Broca's area in the frontal lobe of the brain, a lesion of which may
>lead to Broca's (motor) aphasia (a certain form of inability to speak).
>Does this help? I am not sure how this fits in with a baseball glove ...
>
1800's. Much of his study involved the human brain which he was greatly
commended on. Much of his methods were quite brilliant and his approaches
to scientic method were noteworth. However it is also noted that he was
quite biased and even sexist and racist in his findings. Overall much of
his later (and less realistic) research involved the removing and weighing
of human brains. I think think the cartoon in question is making fun of
his own brand of science, kind of like a biologist in a large jar.
-= David K.
Fil Feit
>>
>>I don't understand the Far Side calendar for Wednesday, Oct. 28. On a
>>shelf there are three pickle-jar type things (like lab specimens)
>>and the caption is "Broca's brain, appendix, and baseball glove"
>>
Once is funny, Gary. It's like the "Nerd <fill in blank>" cartoons.
Although I will admit the ones that put a spin on song lyrics are
funny.
Believe me, I know how hard it is to be consistenly fresh AND funny.
Let's get more of the great ones, like "the Bozone layer: shielding the
rest of the solar system from the earth's harmful effects".
obJoke: Two guys are going hunting. Since one has a fabulous gun collection,
they agree that he should bring the hardware and the other would bring provisions.
They meet early in the morning. First hunter says, "I've got two rifles plus
two for backup. I've got two gross shells. What did you bring?" His friend
says, "I've got four bottles of whiskey and a loaf of bread." The first
man says, "What are you crazy? What are we going to do with all that bread?"
Sorry, I left the funny jokes at home.
--f2
Mike Schlosser
>Dave
This was soon after the World Series.
I would guess the three have in common this:
THINGS THAT HUMANS NO LONGER NEED !!!
Maybe, Maybe not.
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Robert Handleton
I the only one who has any recollection of the source of the Broca's
Brain joke, but I've forgotten some details as well. I hope I'm set
straight by somebody who still has all their faculties.
Broca's Brain was the title of a book written by, I believe, Carl Sagan,
about, uh, the brain. Probably detailing Broca's work.
I thought that Far Side was a scream! Oh well, it just goes to show
you, uh, somethin'.
Later, maybe, don't hold your breath...
Bob
Joel Garry
> In <Bx5Kp...@wang.com> dbus...@wang.com (Dave Bushong) writes:
>
>
> >I don't understand the Far Side calendar for Wednesday, Oct. 28. On a
> >shelf there are three pickle-jar type things (like lab specimens)
> >and the caption is "Broca's brain, appendix, and baseball glove"
>
> >I guess Broca must be someone or some piece of culture that I
> >skipped over in my life.
>
> >Thanks in advance for the clue.
>
> >Dave
>
Broca was a famous brain researcher, famous for discovering
Broca's area of the brain (something to do with speach or pattern
recognition, I can't remember without performance enhancing drugs or
15 year old textbooks). Not a particularly funny farside unless
you are a brain surgeon. Of course, between TV and computers we don't
need drugs or brain surgeons any more.
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Dennis Preston
>
>I don't understand the Far Side calendar for Wednesday, Oct. 28. On a
>shelf there are three pickle-jar type things (like lab specimens)
>and the caption is "Broca's brain, appendix, and baseball glove"
>
>I guess Broca must be someone or some piece of culture that I
>skipped over in my life.
>
Terje Johansen,o90b
Is this joke so hard to get?
Specimen 1: Broca's brain
Specimen 2: Broca's appendix
Speciman 3: Broca's baseball glove.
Not a great joke, but I have seen worse puns.
--
Terje Johansen at Trondheim College of Engineering, Norway.
Bury me deep. The next generations will be hungry.
W. Anthony Alford
About Broca`s brain: Carl Sagan wrote a book called Broca`s Brain.
Dennis Preston
>
>About Broca`s brain: Carl Sagan wrote a book called Broca`s Brain.
>
cross index
In article <1992Nov13.0...@mic.ucla.edu> br...@bnkl01.astro.ucla.edu (George Brims) writes:
>Anyone remember any OLDER jokes?
OK, here's the oldest joke I've ever seen (hmm, and I got it
from rec.humor, too):
From: m...@saul.cis.upenn.edu (Messiah of the Accursed)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,rec.humor
Subject: OLDEST JOKES in the WORLD, part 1
Organization: Eaters of Wisdom
A noble with the head of an ibis-bird enters an establishment
a few leaugues north of Heliopolis, wherein beverages are commonly
served, and requests of the shaven slave therein beer, made red with
the red ocher mud from the banks of the Nile. The crafty slave,
seeing an opportunity to have an easy profit at the noble's expense,
serves the beer and names as his price three talents of barley. The
ibis-headed one blinks in surprise but calls in his slaves with sacks
of barley to pay the requested sum, and drinks his beer. The serving
slave, gleeful, but unable to restrain his curiousity, remarks that a
manifestation of the god Thoth has not passed that way since ancient
times. The ibis-headed god (for it is indeed he) suggests that he
might be inclined to manifest himself more frequently in that locale
were not the price of beer in the province so high.
[Translated from a manuscript dated 2274 B.C.]
THEY CALL ME "e. wallis budge" ANDY R.
heh!
-r
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Mark Hewitt
: In <Bx5Kp...@wang.com> dbus...@wang.com (Dave Bushong) writes:
:
:
: >I don't understand the Far Side calendar for Wednesday, Oct. 28. On a
: >shelf there are three pickle-jar type things (like lab specimens)
: >and the caption is "Broca's brain, appendix, and baseball glove"
:
: >I guess Broca must be someone or some piece of culture that I
: >skipped over in my life.
:
: >Thanks in advance for the clue.
:
: >Dave
:
: >--
: >Dave Bushong, Wang Laboratories, Inc. Amateur Radio Callsign KZ1O
: >Project Leader, OCR products kz1o@n0ary.#noca.ca.na
: >Internet: dbus...@wang.com
:
:
: This was soon after the World Series.
: I would guess the three have in common this:
: THINGS THAT HUMANS NO LONGER NEED !!!
:
: Maybe, Maybe not.
Uhh...guess nobody reads Asmiov around here.
"Broca's Brain" is the title of a science fiction novel.
-mark-
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Rachel J. Perkins
>Mike Schlosser (mi...@ars2.uucp) wrote:
>: In <Bx5Kp...@wang.com> dbus...@wang.com (Dave Bushong) writes:
>:
>: >I don't understand the Far Side calendar for Wednesday, Oct. 28. On a
>: >shelf there are three pickle-jar type things (like lab specimens)
>: >and the caption is "Broca's brain, appendix, and baseball glove"
>:
>: >I guess Broca must be someone or some piece of culture that I
>: >skipped over in my life.
>
>Uhh...guess nobody reads Asmiov around here.
>
>"Broca's Brain" is the title of a science fiction novel.
uh, guess again. 'broca's brain' is a part fiction, mostly non-fiction
book by carl sagan. broca was a scientist in (i believe) the late 19th to
early 20th century who studied the human brain. he had a collection of brains
which is now housed in the french 'musee d'homme' in paris. his brain has
been added to the collection. the book is about the methods and thoughts
behind scientific research through time (among other things). not a bad book
for an elitist, pontificating fraud.
bah.
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Doug Dawson
>:
>:
>: >I don't understand the Far Side calendar for Wednesday, Oct. 28. On a
>: >shelf there are three pickle-jar type things (like lab specimens)
>: >and the caption is "Broca's brain, appendix, and baseball glove"
>:
>: >I guess Broca must be someone or some piece of culture that I
>: >skipped over in my life.
>:
>: >Thanks in advance for the clue.
>:
>: >Dave
>
>
>
>"Broca's Brain" is the title of a science fiction novel.
>
essays by Carl Sagan (though "Donovan's Brain" _is_ a science fiction
novel). As I recall the title essay, Broca worked on studying the
brain (the language centers, I think), and after his death, his brain
was pickled and put in a jar in a science museum, where Sagan happened
to run across it one day.
Marc Riehm
>: In <Bx5Kp...@wang.com> dbus...@wang.com (Dave Bushong) writes:
>:
>:
>: >I don't understand the Far Side calendar for Wednesday, Oct. 28. On a
>: >shelf there are three pickle-jar type things (like lab specimens)
>: >and the caption is "Broca's brain, appendix, and baseball glove"
>:
>: >I guess Broca must be someone or some piece of culture that I
>: >skipped over in my life.
>:
>: >Thanks in advance for the clue.
>:
>: >Dave
>:
>: >--
>: >Dave Bushong, Wang Laboratories, Inc. Amateur Radio Callsign KZ1O
>: >Project Leader, OCR products kz1o@n0ary.#noca.ca.na
>: >Internet: dbus...@wang.com
>:
>:
>: This was soon after the World Series.
>: I would guess the three have in common this:
>: THINGS THAT HUMANS NO LONGER NEED !!!
>:
>: Maybe, Maybe not.
>
>
>Uhh...guess nobody reads Asmiov around here.
>
>"Broca's Brain" is the title of a science fiction novel.
>
Uhhh, shall we try again? "Broca's Brain" was the title of a non-fictional
work by Carl Sagan. Broca was a French scientist (if I remember it right)
whose brain was preserved after his death.
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Could the baseball glove be a reference to him?