Word: potters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WHDH offered a prize for the funniest saying sent in. Potter wrote, "In the Heisenberg representation of quantum electrodynamics, the radiative corrections to the scattering matri are best evaluated using the anti-commutater of the renormalized Green's function with its irreducible Spinner invariant." It didn't win, but the announcer read it on the air because "it sounded profound...
...Potter, who was originally slated to graduate in '62, had his class changed to '61 so he could graduate and move into Child Hall with his friends. There, for two football seasons, he posted "Potter's Prognostications" outside his first-floor room. People got in the habit of walking by the room every week, because his system proved accurate about 75 per cent of the time (professional sportswriters average about 66 per cent accuracy...
...graduate school Potter, like so many others, began to feel old and jaded. He sent an engagement notice to the New York Times, which did not print it; thus the engagement was broken. His name stopped appearing on letters. One of his creators got married and moved out of Child...
...Potter, in retirement, has achieved the highest form of immortality--he is now part of a computer program. His Eng Sci 110 friend, now a programmer for a California company, wrote a computer program so that, after the user had made an absurdly simple mistake in working the machine, the computer would print out, "Congratulations! You have just committed the impossible error. Please notify Stephen Potter immediately at this address..." The program got world-wide distribution and a few weeks ago Stephen received a letter from a very embarrassed French Army Minister...
With a little judicious blackmail, Potter could bring an end to the terrible waste of electricity in the City of Light