Acclaimed director Werner Herzog once desired to film a scene in which the smallest man in the world rode the smallest pony in the world whilst being chased around the trunk of the largest tree in the world by the largest rooster in the world. He was stymied by the owner of the largest rooster in the world, who claimed the scene would make the giant rooster "look stupid."
"I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it."
Several engineers were testing the design of a new style of hot air balloon that they had been working on, but certain flawed aspects of their steering apparatus only became apparant once they had risen quite high in the air. As a result, the engineers found themselves floating aimlessly, lost in the skies. Eventually the wind slowly blew the balloon close to a tall hill, at the surmount of which lay what appeared to be a small university. As the passed by one of the tallest buildings, the engineers happened to notice a figure on the roof. "Hello down there, can you tell us where we are?" one of the engineers shouted. The figure merely looked up in silence at the slow moving balloon. Roughly a half hour had passed, and the building was nearly out of sight when the engineers heard a faint voice coming from the hill top: "You are in a balloon!" "That must have been a mathematicican," sighed one of the engineers. "What makes you say that?" asked another. "He clearly took a long time working on his answer, it was rigorously and provably true, and completely useless in any real world application."
"Five bats depicted quincunially symbolize the Five Happiness (wu fu) - wealth, long life, peace, cultivation of virtue (or good health) and a good death."
