How not to communicate new scientific information

January 14, 2012 6:27 PM

The Professor wanted to make his case in the most convincing style possible. He indicated that, in his view, no normal person would find the experience of giving a lecture to a large audience to be erotically stimulating or erection-inducing. He had, he said, therefore injected himself with papaverine in his hotel room before coming to give the lecture, and deliberately wore loose clothes (hence the track-suit) to make it possible to exhibit the results. He stepped around the podium, and pulled his loose pants tight up around his genitalia in an attempt to demonstrate his erection. Via Not Exactly Rocket Science.
posted by latkes (8 comments total)

Gilligan's Island had some weird plots.
posted by furiousxgeorge at 6:29 PM on January 14, 2012 [2 favorites]

Ricky Leecock told me that Leonard Bernstein sent him out to find a jockstrap, because he kept getting an erection while conducting the Israel Philharmonic in Beethoven's 5th.
posted by StickyCarpet at 6:31 PM on January 14, 2012

Not actually a double, but pretty damn close.
posted by hippybear at 6:32 PM on January 14, 2012

Oh, wait, that actually IS a double. Sorry about that.

(Not diphalia... but a double post)
posted by hippybear at 6:33 PM on January 14, 2012

I never tire of reading this story!
posted by mittens at 6:33 PM on January 14, 2012

Oh crud. Flagging for deletion.
posted by latkes at 6:33 PM on January 14, 2012

(Dang it! First time I've recognized a double, too! Damn my slow, flaccid fingers!)
posted by mittens at 6:34 PM on January 14, 2012

And I didn't even bother researching this charming characters back story - as the previous poster did.
posted by latkes at 6:34 PM on January 14, 2012