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Best IT joke ever? (Part III)
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Best IT joke ever? (Part III)

The MD wanted to evaluate the initiative of his employees, so at the next weekly meeting he presented the Finance, Sales and IT department with a task. He said "Next week I want each of you to give a talk using these as the central prop" and handed each department two ball bearings. The following week the departments met and gave their talks. The Finance department began:
"We attached some thread to each ball and hung them both in a frame made out of pencils selotaped together thus creating a simple Newton's Cradle. This helps to show the principals of the conservation of energy." The Sales department followed with: "We stretched a split balloon over the top of this waste paper basket. We then placed one ball bearing in the middle and rolled the second ball around the first one. This helps explain how mass distorts space, showing the effects of gravity in two dimensions using the second ball as an orbiting object." Then came the IT departments turn:
"We broke one and lost the other" Thanks to silicon.com reader Paul Walliman for the above contribution To return to 'Are these the best IT jokes... ever?' click here http://www.silicon.com/a48796
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