Originally Posted by herkhorse
for geeker:
Two men are
sitting at the bar at the top of the Empire State Building
drinking, when the
first man turns to the other one and says: "You
know, last week I discovered
that if you jump from the top of this
building, by the time you fall to the
10th floor, the wind around the
building is so intense that it carries you
around the building and
back into the window."
The bartender just
shakes his head in disapproval while wiping the
bar, but says nothing. The
second guy says, "What? Are you insane?
There's no way in heck that could
happen!"
"No, it's true," said the first man, "let me prove it to
you."
He gets up from the bar, jumps over the balcony and plummets
toward
the street below. When he passes the 10th floor, the high wind
whips
him around the building and back into the 10th floor window and
he
takes the elevator back up to the bar. He meets the second man, who
is
astonished.
"You know, I saw that with my own eyes, but that
must've been a
one-time fluke. That was scientifically
impossible!"
"No, I'll prove it again," says the first man as he
jumps. Again,
just as his body hurtles towards the street, the 10th
floor wind
gently carries him around the building and into the window.
He takes
the elevator back to the bar. Once upstairs, he successfully urges
his
dubious fellow drinker to try it.
"Well, what the heck," the
second guy says, "I've seen that it works,
so I'll try it!"
He
immediately jumps over the balcony - plunges downward - rapidly
passes the
11th, 10th, 9th, 8th floors his body hits the sidewalk with
a loud
"splat."
Back upstairs, the bartender who had been silent the whole time
turns to the first drinker, and shakes his head. He says, "You
know, Superman, you're a real as$hole when you're drunk."
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