| | OK, Robert, here's a joke:
Two Objectivist friends and I were at Georgia State University one spring evening, a long time ago. I was in graduate school there at the time. We were there for W. to teach M. and me how to play racquet-ball; W. was a very good hand-ball player, and had played the other game a bit.
After getting tired and sweaty on the court, we went into the canteen for a drink. We sat at a little table, with our paper cups of coke (that's how long ago it was, vending machines filled paper cups with drink!) We were lamenting a few sore spots where we'd been hit by the ball, and W. was telling us that we should be glad we hadn't been hit by a hand-ball ball. That led to questions about the difference between the two types of balls, and W., who is a Civil Engineer, was explaining.
For some reason, M. was having trouble understanding what he meant when he said, "The hand-ball is solid rubber, but the racquet-ball is much softer, because it is a bladder." M., a banker, asked what he meant by that, a very brow-knitted expression on her face. "It's empty inside, there's nothing in it, like a bladder. "Like a bladder?" M. asked, "Why do you call it a bladder?" Because it's empty," W. replied. "Empty?" M. said, her face totally screwed up in puzzlement now, "Who ever heard of an empty bladder?"
(Edited by Mindy Newton on 1/24, 4:52pm)
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