[Your Nightmare]

A funny one about economists. Stephen Colbert interviewing Nobel-winning Chemist Peter Agre:

Colbert: "You said 'anyone who grew up on a farm knows that evolution exists'. Ok, are you saying a monkey can milk a cow?"

Agre: "Well, if I can milk a cow I suspect a monkey as smart as I am can milk a cow."

Colbert: "Are there monkeys as smart as you?"

Agre: "I'm sure there are quite a few, quite a few.

Colbert: "Oh really? mmhum. Do they give a Nobel prize for throwing your own feces?"

Agre: "........That's the Economics prize, I think."

[groanup]

Two economists were stranded on a desert island with only a can of beans and no can opener. After days of pondering the can and wondering what to do one of the economists snapped his fingers and shouted: "Aha! What we must do is assume a can opener.