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Jokes Home : School : Gypsy Moths
A small college town was being overrun by gypsy moths, so much so that the town council was beside itself trying to figure out how to get rid of them.
It just so happened that a music student at the local college music conservatory was practicing the organ one afternoon, and a number of moths flew in the open window.
The student noticed that when he played a particular chord on the organ that the moths immediately flew to the speaker of the organ. This gave the bright, entrepreneurial student an idea.
He approached the town council and told them he would rid the town of moths for a fee.
The council agreed.
So the student found a portable organ and put it in the back of a friend's pick-up truck.
His friend drove around town with the student in the back of the truck, playing the moth-attracting chord.
But, alas, the experiment failed as the music failed to attract a single moth.
Puzzled, he asked his music professor what may have happened.
The professor explained that the vibration of the truck, as it rolled down the street, altered the pitch of the chord sufficiently that the moths were not attracted to it.
"Haven't you heard?" the professor asked," that a rolling tone gathers no moths?"
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