In related news:

    Erasmus Darwin held that every so often you should 
    try a damn-fool experiment. He played the trombone 
    to his tulips.

    This particular result was, in fact, negative.

That's from "A Mathematician's Miscellany" by Littlewood, which is an excellent collection of quirky bits and pieces of this kind. Highly recommended.

https://archive.org/details/mathematiciansmi033496mbp/page/n...