The well-known Soviet journalist Vladmir Pozner visited the UCSD Department of Communication last week and talked with the faculty and graduate students at lunch. He told this joke: One day a man walks into the hospital and tells the desk nurse that he wants to see the eye/ear doctor. "There is no such doctor" she tells him. "Perhaps he would like to see someone else?" No, I need to see an eye/ear doctor he says. But there is no such doctor, she replies. We have doctors for the eyes and doctors for the ear, nose and throat, but no eye/ear doctor. No help. He repeats, "I want to see the eye/ear doctor." They go around like this for a few minutes and then the nurse says: "Comrade, there is no eye/ear doctor, but if there were one, why would you want to see one? Because," he replies, "I keep hearing one thing and seeing another." -- bj --
(From the "Rest" of RHF)