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The Physicists sees part of a train track
To which he can find the velocity of two destined to crash trains
The Psychologists sees an interval
To which he can rate intelligence or cognitive ability upon
The 3d Artist sees the base to a metal framework
To which they will weave a new master piece.
The 2d Artist sees a soon to be horizon
Border lined by a fence.
The ten year old sees the number nine.
The gardener, a yard stick.
The convict sees part of his prison.
The English major sees part of a book shelf
With ten books below and above with each having the same width
The statistician sees an axis for a graph.
The veteran sees a line of machine gun bullets
The empiricist sees a series of ten lines
The drug addict sees rainbows, a dragon imploding
with a bunny hoping out of it; a couple gnomes dancing around in the background,
some floating pink tutus and a talking shrub with the voice of ‘Janice’ from ‘Friends’
The ecologist sees some growing seeds
The pot head, weed-s
The programmer sees a number of pixels on a screen
Produced in a bmp document
The java programmer responds with
‘Oh shit’ to the broken code he sees
The philosopher sees something bizarre’
Similar to the drug addict (no offence!), except there are no gnomes or shrubs
The chemist sees a 100.00ml burette on its side
To which he can titrate two liquids with
The sleep deprived
Sees themselves falling through the universe (surrounded by stars)
The driver who speeds sees road lines during the night
And passing by trees during the day
The photographer sees the range
To which he can zoom his camera into
The DJ sees a volume dial
The elderly sees a nine day planner
To store their daily pills in
The accident prone sees a series of stitches
The sadistic and masochistic see stitches too
The spirited see stitches in the side of a carved pumpkin
The daydreamer sees an elongated cloud
The dentist sees two toothbrushes
With the heads back to back
The pet lover sees a Tigger fish which has been floating in the tank
for a week and has had its fins and head eaten by the other fish
The ‘slave’ sees a collar, the ‘master’ a tool
The one with fetishes sees boot laces!
The CEOs see PA buttons
The beer drinkers see the tops of an 18 pack of bottled Budweiser
The sewer sees a zipper
The baby a bottle that’s missing the nipple and lying sideways
The lumberman sees part of a stack of two by fours pilled on top of each other
The bored “teenie-bopper” yawns and responds with “this is boring”
The older “teenie-bopper” laughs, thinking they figured something amazing out
And claims they see nothing
AND,
The mathematician laughs, and responds,
“It’s obviously infinity! Look you can take a infinite amount of small numbers between any of the two finite units”
And low and behold, the mathematician sees all of the above and doesn’t know any of the above people as he/she doesn't have friends.
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