OT: Behaviorists

Joel S. Berson Berson at ATT.NET
Sat Dec 18 17:30:58 UTC 2010


At 12/18/2010 01:18 AM, Victor Steinbok wrote:
>It's like the old
>New Yorker cartoon of two behaviorists in bed (not apocryphal--I
>actually saw it): It was good for you, how was it for me?

An offshoot of the tale of the two behaviorists (actually, I heard it
with "psychiatrists") who meet on the street.  One greets the other
with, "You're fine, how am I?"

But the New Yorker would naturally move this to the bedroom.

Joel

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