Neighbor 1: | "Hi, there, new neighbor, it sure is a nice day to be moving" | |
New Neighbor: | "Yes, it is and people around here seem extremely friendly" | |
Neighbor 1: | "So what is it you do for a living?" | |
New Neighbor: | "I am a professor at the University, I teach deductive reasoning" | |
Neighbor 1: | "Deductive reasoning, what is that?" | |
New Neighbor: | "Let me give you and example. I see you have a dog house out back. By that I deduce that you have a dog." | |
Neighbor 1: | "That is right" | |
New Neighbor: | "The fact that you have a dog, Leads me to deduce that you have a family. | |
Neighbor 1: | "Right again" | |
New Neighbor: | "Since you have a family I deduce that you have a wife" | |
Neighbor 1: | "Correct" | |
New Neighbor: | "And since you have a wife, I can deduce that you are heterosexual" | |
Neighbor 1: | "Yup" | |
New Neighbor: | "That is deductive reasoning" | |
Neighbor 1: | "Cool" |
Later that same day...
Neighbor 1: | "Hey, I was talking to that new guy who moved in next door" | |
Neighbor 2: | "Is he a nice guy?" | |
Neighbor 1: | "Yes, and he has an interesting job" | |
Neighbor 2: | "Oh, yeah what does he do?" | |
Neighbor 1: | "He is a professor of deductive reasoning at the University" | |
Neighbor 2: | "Deductive reasoning, what is that" | |
Neighbor 1: | "Let me give you an example. Do you have a dog house?" | |
Neighbor 2: | "No" | |
Neighbor 1: | "Fag." |