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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/47751127

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Joseph Albert (1825-1886, photographer).

Carte-de-visite portrait photograph of the young Albert Einstein, Munich, n.d. [c.1884].

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[–] sag@lemm.ee 8 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 18 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

It's a common joke repeated from some obscure copypasta. I feel like it's based on Dwight's elaborate heist story in The Office, but I can't remember it clearly enough to say for sure.

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 2 points 4 hours ago

It might have been inspired by the Barometer question, which frequently gets attributed to Niels Bohr in a similar fashion.