Article: 261469 of talk.bizarre From: Andrew Solberg <andsol@cml.rice.edu> Newsgroups: talk.bizarre Subject: 14x100 Date: 1 Dec 1995 14:09:19 -0500 Organization: iTRiBE Mail to News Gateway Lines: 31 Sender: nobody@athos.itribe.net Message-ID: <49njsv$e6m@athos.itribe.net> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] X-Provider: iTRiBE, Inc <URL: http://www.itribe.net/> X-Gateway: Posted via the iTRiBE News<->Email gateway X-Disclaimer: iTRiBE, Inc. neither endorses nor assumes any responsibility for the contents of this posting. Status: O MORE THAN BRUSHES ***************** Good Evening, Ma'am! lovely weather. Ma'am, I can tell just by looking that you, like most Americans, have no time for entropy. I know I don't. You're a responsible homemaker (quite a pretty one, I dare say!) and waste is unwelcome. Well, little lady, have *I* got something for *you*! Ma'am, this Carnot Engine packs and unpacks in minutes. It's frisky and lightweight (goes where you go!) and runs off two D-cell batteries. PLUS! -- it has IMPOSSIBLE THERMAL EFFICIENCY. Now, Ma'am, if I could come in and demonstrate, perhaps using your bathtub as a heat sink, then.... ...Well! How rude! -- This post is COPYRIGHT 1995, Andrew Solberg. All rights reserved. Standard usenet distribution is acceptable; other forms of reproduction or reprinting may be considered in violation of international copyright law. Andrew Solberg is HWRNMNBSOL: andsol@cml.rice.edu, Math Dept., Rice U.