bH wrote:
> As a mathematician who ordered a new suit from a tailor and at try on
> time, said to his tailor "This suit doesn't fit. Look the right sleeve
> of the jacket is too short.
> And the jacket is too tight. Look at the pants, the left pants leg
> needs to be shorter”.
>
> To which the tailor replied "When you walk suck in your bay window,
> hike up your right shoulder so that the right sleeve is at the same
> length as the left, and take a longer step with your left leg. The
> mathematician looked bewildered at the tailor's directions.
>
> The tailor replied "You'll get used to walking that way, the way I had
> to get used to figuring out math problems when I took the course you
> taught".
Having bought the suit, with his belly sucked in, one shoulder hiked, the
hips
cocked so the pants legs would look the same length, torso twisted so the
jacket would drape, the mathematician left the tailor's shop, rather
disgruntled. As he walked, hobbled, really, to keep the pants balanced, a
man
walked up to him.
"Is that a new suit? It looks nice!" the man said.
"Why, yes," the mathematician replied, thinking, maybe this tailor wasn't
so
bad after all.
"Where'd you get it done?" the man inquired.
"At the tailor's on the corner back there," the mathematician responded.
"I've got to see him!" the man enthused. "Anyone who can fit someone as
misshapen as you must be a genius!"
--
Lew
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