This is taken from the Friday, 20 November 1998 "What's New" newsletter of the American Physical Society.
Ever since evangelical inventor Joe Newman failed to get his energy machine patented -- those annoying laws of physics got in the way again -- there's been pressure to get deeper thinkers into the US Patent Office. In its recent newsletter, the Office profiled the newest patent examiner, an expert on the "luminous and deadly Galactic center, the meaning of the ancient Minoan bull leaping sport, and the correct interpretation of Atlantis." You can read all about them in his handbook on surviving the apocalypse. And if he can survive an apocalypse, just about anything is possible.
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