Jokes (Not For Dummies)

The authors of this piece assert that you won't get these jokes. I assume they know their audience. As for you ladies and gentlemen, I believe you will collectively get all of them, and individually nearly all.

18 comments:

E Hines said...

I especially liked 10, 16, and 25.

Eric Hines

Grim said...

My favorite was 5.

Assistant Village Idiot said...

5, 10, 18, & 22.

I didn't get #12.

Grim said...

Oh, the collective noun for crows is "a murder of crows." So two crows is just an attempt at a murder. :)

Eric Blair said...

Smiled at that one.

I get to fix stuff like #25 at work.

douglas said...

Fun list.
I like 18 & 10 particularly.
A few I had to refresh my memory (via google) to get it, but it took very little prodding. The Mandelbrot one for instance- I couldn't recall his work with with Fractals, but once I had that...

Grim said...

You know, I really like 16 too. Anyone who's had to graph relativistic motion will find that one hilarious.

Larry Sheldon said...

Doctor, I got most of them, should I be worried?

Texan99 said...

I had to guess at #4.

I liked #20. Actually, I liked many of these, but #20 was one I hadn't heard before. #19 was good, too, and #10.

DL Sly said...

Ok, I'm so bad I didn't even bother to pay attention to the numbers. I was must reading through going "Uh huh" *groan* "Uh huh" etc etc

Now I'm gonna hafta go back and look at the numbers.....

DL Sly said...

*sigh*
"just"

TerentiaJ said...

Surprised myself. I got them all.

Tom said...

I got all of them except 10:

10. The barman says: “We don’t serve faster-than-light particles here.” A tachyon enters a bar.

What? Help me out here, folks.

Tom said...

Oh, and Heisenberg and Schrodinger are speeding down the highway and get pulled over by a cop.

"Do you know how fast you were going?" the cop asks.

"No," Heisenberg replies, "but we knew exactly where we were."

The cop thought this was a strange answer and decided to search the car. After opening the trunk, he called out, "Did you two know you've got a dead cat in the trunk?"

"Well, we do NOW!" Schrodinger replied.

Yu-Ain Gonnano said...

Tom,
Tachyons are theoretical particles that travel faster than the speed of light. This would break causality. They essentially move backwards in time. Thus the order is reversed.

Tom said...

Thanks!

Grim said...

Tom:

If you're interested in exploring it further, there's an article from the SEP here.

OBloodyHell said...

LOL, Tom how did you get the joke YOU told (which was great by the way, better than anything at the link) and NOT get the Tachyon reference...? :-D

Took me a few minutes to get the v-for-victory-v-for-five reference in #19 but I did eventually get it.

I'll confess I don't know enough about Chomsky's memes to Really Get the punch line to #18, though the other two refs are clear enough. I note the two appear to be switched (Goedel vs. Heisenberg) so I presume that may be it, it lacks impact.