Yeah, surely someone got a free beer out of that one. I wonder, once you've convinced yourself the idea isn't crazy, how you go about convincing someone else -

Yeah, surely someone got a free beer out of that one. I wonder, once you've convinced yourself the idea isn't crazy, how you go about convincing someone else --- No, look at the tidal chart, and then look at this variation here. See? And then one day you've hit critical mass and the whole lab is looking at train tables, the passage of the moon, and how often yo' momma brings you lunch, trying to find correspondences. Or maybe there was already a list of possible confabulations, in decending order, and they checked them off one by one. That would be less amusing, I think.