Subject: Groaner
From: Unicorn (unicorn@indenial.com)
Date: Tue Feb 08 2000 - 03:36:27 EST
Groaner
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A small college town was being overrun by gypsy moths, so
much so that the town council was beside itself trying to
figure out how to get rid of them. It just so happened that a
music student at the local college music conservatory was
practicing the organ one afternoon, and a number of moths
flew in the open window. The student noticed that when he
played a particular chord on the organ that the moths
immediately flew to the speaker of the organ. This gave the
bright, entrepreneurial student an idea.
He approached the town council and told them he would rid the
town of moths for a fee. The council agreed. So the student
found a portable organ and put it in the back of a friend's
pick-up truck. His friend drove around town with the student
in the back of the truck, playing the moth attracting chord.
But, alas, the experiment failed as the music failed to
attract a single moth. Puzzled, he asked his music professor
what may have happened. The professor explained that the
vibration of the truck, as it rolled down the street, altered
the pitch of the chord sufficiently that the moths were not
attracted to it.
"Haven't you heard?" the professor asked, "That a rolling
tone gathers no moths?"
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