One of the funniest of yarns is told by the American Nobel Prize winning physicist Richard Feynman about his first day at graduate school at Princeton University when the Dean invited him for tea.
"I didn't even know what a ‘tea’ was, or why! I had no social abilities”, recalls Feynman.
Arriving at the Dean’s lodgings he found ‘tea' to be: "Very formal. And I'm thinking about where to sit down, and should I sit next to this girl, or not, and how should I behave, when I hear a voice behind me. ‘Would you like cream or lemon in your tea, Mr. Feynman?’"
The question comes from the Dean's wife.
"I''ll have both, thank you'," I say, still looking for where I'm going to sit."
"Surely', replies the Dean's wife, '"you're joking, Mr.Feynman."
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