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Showing Original Post only (View all)Enough of dumb jokes, here are some intellectual jokes [View all]
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1h1cyg/whats_the_most_intellectual_joke_you_know/** see the link for explanations
A biologist, a chemist, and a statistician are out hunting. The biologist shoots at a deer and misses 5ft to the left, the chemist takes a shot and misses 5ft to the right, the statistician yells "We got 'em!"
Jean-Paul Sartre is sitting at a French cafe, revising his draft of Being and Nothingness. He says to the waitress, "I'd like a cup of coffee, please, with no cream." The waitress replies, "I'm sorry, Monsieur, but we're out of cream. How about with no milk?"
Entropy: Shit breaks.
(From a Statics class): Shit don't move.
Newton's Third Law: Shit hits back.
First Law of Thermodynamics: You can't win.
Second Law of Thermodynamics: You can't break even.
Third Law of Thermodynamics: You can't stop playing.
The engineer is awakened by a smell and gets up to check it. He finds a fire in the hallway, sees a nearby fire extinguisher and after extinguishing it, goes back to bed.
Later that night, the physicist gets up, again because of the smell of fire. He quickly gets up and sees the fire in the hallway. After calculating air pressure, flame temperature and humidity as well as distance to the fire and projected trajectory, he extinguishes the fire with the least amount of fluid.
At last, the mathematician awakes, only again to find a fire in the hallway. He instantly sees the extinguisher and thinks, "A solution exists!", and heads back into his room.
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It's hard to explain puns to kleptomaniacs because they always take things literally. n/t
lumberjack_jeff
Dec 2013
#5
No offense, but that places you squarely in the "doesn't understand binary" category.
Thor_MN
Dec 2013
#20
If the first and second definitions don't make sense, go with the one that makes it funny.
Thor_MN
Dec 2013
#63
If you are still scratching your coconut, 10 in binary = 2 in the base 10 system.
geckosfeet
Dec 2013
#25
Good question. I suppose the answer is that it was the nature of the original "joke".
geckosfeet
Dec 2013
#67
Welll.. I wanted to make one with Sarah Palin in it, so here's my pathetic attempt.
ananda
Dec 2013
#26
Neil deGrasse Tyson uses a variant of this joke as an example of 'not so Intelligent Design'...
DreamGypsy
Dec 2013
#58