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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

The current depressing news both human and economic had me searching  
for something to lighten the psychic load. I found these. This is well  
over my self-inflicted word limit, so if jokes are of little interest  
to you, just click the Delete key. Here they are:

Jokes about economists and economics
http://netec.mcc.ac.uk/JokEc.html


Economist poem
If you do some acrobatics
with a little mathematics
it will take you far along.
If your idea's not defensible
don't make it comprehensible
or folks will find you out,
and your work will draw attention
if you only fail to mention

what the whole thing is about.

Your must talk of GNP
and of elasticity
of rates of substitution
and undeterminate solution

and oligonopopsony.

 Kenneth E. BOULDING
Q. What do economists and computers have in common ??
A. You need to punch information into both of them.
Why does Treasury only have 10 minutes for morning tea ??
A. If they had any longer, they would need to re-train all the  
economists.
Two economists were walking down the street when they noticed two  
women yelling across the street at each other from their apartment  
windows.

Of course they will never come to agreement, stated the first economist.

And why is that, inquired his companion,

Why, of course, because they are arguing from different premises.
Here's couple of more general jokes.

A civil engineer, a chemist and an economist are traveling in the  
countryside. Weary, they stop at a small country inn. "I only have two  
rooms, so one of you will have to sleep in the barn," the innkeeper  
says. The civil engineer volunteers to sleep in the barn, goes  
outside, and the others go to bed. In a short time they're awakened by  
a knock. It's the engineer, who says, "There's a cow in that barn. I'm  
a Hindu, and it would offend my beliefs to sleep next to a sacred  
animal." The chemist says that, OK, he'll sleep in the barn. The  
others go back to bed, but soon are awakened by another knock. It's  
the chemist who says, "There's a pig in that barn. I'm Jewish, and  
cannot sleep next to an unclean animal." So the economist is sent to  
the barn. It's getting late, the others are very tired and soon fall  
asleep. But they're awakened by an even louder knocking. They open the  
door and are surprised by what they see: It's the cow and the pig!

Three economists and three mathematicians were going for a trip by  
train. Before the journey, the mathematicians bought 3 tickets but  
economists only bought one. The mathematicians were glad their stupid  
colleagues were going to pay a fine. However, when the conductor was  
approaching their compartment, all three economists went to the  
nearest toilet. The conductor, noticing that somebody was in the  
toilet, knocked on the door. In reply he saw a hand with one ticket.  
He checked it and the economists saved 2/3 of the ticket price.
The next day, the mathematicians decided to use the same strategy-  
they bought only one ticket, but economists did not buy tickets at  
all! When the mathematicians saw the conductor, they hid in the  
toilet, and when they heard knocking they handed in the ticket. They  
did not get it back.
Why? The economists took it and went to the other toilet.

A party of economists was climbing in the Alps . After several hours  
they became hopelessly lost. One of them studied the map for some  
time, turning it up and down, sighting on distant landmarks,  
consulting his compass, and finally the sun.
Finally he said, ' OK see that big mountain over there?'
'Yes', answered the others eagerly.
'Well, according to the map, we're standing on top of it.'
Did you hear of the economist who dove into his swimming pool and  
broke his neck?

He forgot to seasonally adjust his pool.
If all the economists were laid end to end they would be an orgy, of  
mathematics.
A wealthy labor economist had an urge to have grandchildren. He had  
two daughters and two sons and none of them had gratified his desire  
for a grandchild. At the annual family gathering on Thanksgiving Day,  
he chided them gently to bless his old age with their progeny. "But I  
haven't given up hope," he said, "Yesterday I went to the bank and set  
up a one hundred thousand dollar trust fund to be given to the first  
grandchild that I have. Now we will all bow our heads while I say a  
prayer of thanks." When he looked up, he and his wife were the only  
ones at the table.
NATURAL RATE OF UNEMPLOYMENT
Newlan's Truism: An "acceptable" level of unemployment means that the  
government economist to whom it is acceptable still has a job.
Q Why did the market economist cross the road?
A To reach the consensus forecast. 
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I skimmed over the responses.

Three things:

1).  Learn about canning.  There was a knock-down-drag-out about this on the 
list years ago about mindlessly following the Ball or USDA instructions or 
actually learning about the canning process.  The only fool proof method of 
canning is if you understand what's going on.  It's important and it's worth 
learning.  Learn the chemical changes, what enzymes do, what type of organisms you 
are dealing with.

2).  Preserving food by freezing changes it less but even frozen it continues 
to deteriorate.  Preserving food by canning changes it more, but so many 
organisms and enzymes are altered that it doesn't change any more for years.  I 
mention that because if you properly can meat, you are going to cook the living 
b'jesus out of it to the point that it might qualify for 'over cooked'.  

3).  We've canned meat for years and even fish from time to time as well as 
prepared meat dishes like tamales and soups.  Dry canning (no broth) gives you 
a different product and IMO it doesn't last as long in storage.  It's good, 
though, and no mistake.  We always cook the bones up with the meat and fill the 
jars with broth.  It's because of the marrow mainly.  Nothing better than 
marrow.

I reckon water bath canning to be safe enough if you are hyper-dilligent.  
But for most veggies and definately for meat, the end results don't taste as 
good.  Pressure canning is safer AND the meat out of the jar is much more 
appealing and tastes better.  Like so many here, and rightly so, we dry heat or 
water bath fruit, jams, and tomatoes, but everything else is pressure canned.

For the best soups you have ever had, take all the extra broth and then boil 
the (chicken) skins and bones well and reduce the volume to 1 in six or 1 in 
eight.  This will give you a rather thick gelatain.   Pressure can pint jars of 
that and it is the basis for the best of soups.   </HTML>