8. A logician’s wife is having a baby. The doctor immediately hands the newborn to the dad.
His wife asks impatiently: “So, is it a boy or a girl?” The logician replies: “yes.”
Why it’s funny: Processing that question through Boolean logic, since the statement has the OR operator. Even if only one of the conditions is right the answer would be yes.
9. 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?”
Why it’s funny: Because Sartre believes that an absence of something is still something, plus, coffee with no milk tastes a lot worse than coffee with no cream.
10. Entropy isn’t what it used to be.
Why it’s funny: In thermodynamics entropy is a measure of disorder, and the thermodynamic law states that it always increases, when properly accounted for. Examples are shuffling a deck of cards, shaking salt and pepper in the same shaker after carefully placing all the salt on top, and the ongoing need to straighten up the house.
11. How can you tell the difference between a chemist and a plumber? Ask them to pronounce unionized.
Why it’s funny: A more labor-conscious plumber would pronounce the word as “yoon-yun-ized.” A chemist would probably say “un-eye-on-ized.”
12. Why do engineers confuse Halloween and Christmas?
Why it’s funny: Because Sartre believes that an absence of something is still something, plus, coffee with no milk tastes a lot worse than coffee with no cream.
10. Entropy isn’t what it used to be.
Why it’s funny: In thermodynamics entropy is a measure of disorder, and the thermodynamic law states that it always increases, when properly accounted for. Examples are shuffling a deck of cards, shaking salt and pepper in the same shaker after carefully placing all the salt on top, and the ongoing need to straighten up the house.
11. How can you tell the difference between a chemist and a plumber? Ask them to pronounce unionized.
Why it’s funny: A more labor-conscious plumber would pronounce the word as “yoon-yun-ized.” A chemist would probably say “un-eye-on-ized.”
12. Why do engineers confuse Halloween and Christmas?
Because Oct 31 = Dec 25
Why it’s funny: The play on words lies in the similarity of the abbreviation for October/Octal and December/Decimal, and the coincidence that the two representations equal the same amount. 25 Octal = 31 Decimal.
13. Werner Heisenberg, Kurt Godel, and Noam Chomsky walk into a bar. Heisenberg turns to the other two and says, “‘Clearly this is a joke, but how can we figure out if It’s funny or not?” Godel replies, “‘We can’t know that because we’re inside the joke... Chomsky says, “Of course it’s funny. You’re just telling It wrong.”
Why it’s funny: Because Heisenberg is uncertain, Godel sees that the joke is logically incomplete, and Chomsky distinguishes between the joke itself and the linguistic performance.
14. Pavlov Is sitting at a pub enjoying a pint, the phone rings and he jumps up shouting “Oh shit, I forgot to feed the dog!”
Why it’s funny: The play on words lies in the similarity of the abbreviation for October/Octal and December/Decimal, and the coincidence that the two representations equal the same amount. 25 Octal = 31 Decimal.
13. Werner Heisenberg, Kurt Godel, and Noam Chomsky walk into a bar. Heisenberg turns to the other two and says, “‘Clearly this is a joke, but how can we figure out if It’s funny or not?” Godel replies, “‘We can’t know that because we’re inside the joke... Chomsky says, “Of course it’s funny. You’re just telling It wrong.”
Why it’s funny: Because Heisenberg is uncertain, Godel sees that the joke is logically incomplete, and Chomsky distinguishes between the joke itself and the linguistic performance.
14. Pavlov Is sitting at a pub enjoying a pint, the phone rings and he jumps up shouting “Oh shit, I forgot to feed the dog!”
Why it’s funny: In his experiment, Pavlov used a bell as his neutral stimulus. Whenever he gave food to his dogs, he also rang a bell. After a number of repeats of this procedure, he tried the bell on its own. As you might expect, the bell on its own now caused an increase in salivation.
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