Science Jokes

  Rabbit's Ph.D. Thesis:
 
                                 A Parable for Graduate Students
 
 
 
 Scene: It's a fine sunny day in the forest, and a rabbit is sitting outside
 his burrow, tippy-tapping on his typewriter.
 
 Along comes a fox, out for a walk.
 
 Fox: "What are you working on?"
 
 Rabbit: "My thesis."
 
 Fox: "Hmmm. What's it about?"
 
 Rabbit: "Oh, I'm writing about how rabbits eat foxes."
 (incredulous pause)
 
 Fox: "That's ridiculous! Any fool knows that rabbits don't eat foxes."
 
 Rabbit: "Sure they do, and I can prove it. Come with me."
 
 They both disappear into the rabbit's burrow. After a few minutes, the
 rabbit returns, alone, to his typewriter and resumes typing.
 
 Soon, a wolf comes along and stops to watch the hardworking rabbit.
 
 Wolf: "What's that you're writing?"
 
 Rabbit: "I'm doing a thesis on how rabbits eat wolves."
 (loud guffaws)
 
 Wolf: "You don't expect to get such rubbish published, do you?"
 
 Rabbit: "No problem. Do you want to see why?"
 
 The rabbit and the wolf go into the burrow, and again the rabbit
 returns by himself, after a few minutes, and goes back to typing.
 
 Scene: Inside the rabbit's burrow. In one corner, there is a pile of fox 
 bones.  In another corner, a pile of wolf bones. On the other side of the 
 room, a huge lion is belching and picking his teeth.
 
    (The End)
 
  Moral:
     It doesn't matter what you choose for a thesis subject.
     It doesn't matter what you use for data.
     What does matter is who you have for a thesis advisor.