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Clever (?) Jokes

ercoerco Posts: 20,256
edited 2016-07-01 04:51 in General Discussion
Hope you clever guys can explain these to me. Mostly geeky puns, a few duds, a few good ones, some of general interest to this tech crowd. Includes one of my favorites, OCT 31=DEC 25.

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  • yetiyeti Posts: 818
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  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    Groan.

    What did the constipated mathematician do?

    He worked it out on paper with a pencil.
  • MikeDYurMikeDYur Posts: 2,176
    If you don't understand the relationship between the comparisons, your lost. It's clean enough humor for a child, their probably learning things like that in the third grade now.
  • GordonMcCombGordonMcComb Posts: 3,366
    Limericks are always good.

    There once was a man named Erco,
    who bought things on eBay berserko,
    ...

    (contest to fill in the rest)
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    He bought some transistors
    and then some resistors
    "Why don't these things worko?"
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,256
    Bravorko!
  • MikeDYurMikeDYur Posts: 2,176
    GordonMcComb wrote: »

    There once was a man named Erco,
    who bought things on eBay berserko,

    He sits waiting patiently for the mailman,
    when the package arrives, he opens it with surprise, it isn't what he expected, and tosses in the can.
  • Duane DegnDuane Degn Posts: 10,588
    MikeDYur wrote: »
    their probably learning things like that in the third grade now.

    Most of them were pretty simple but there were a few I doubt many third graders would get.

    I think only kids learning to play a musical instrument would get the "Don't serve minors" joke at 2:22.

    I'm a chemist and I didn't get the "16 Sodium atoms" joke at 3:50. I think only people who watched the original Batman TV show would get the joke.
    "Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na, Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na BATMAN!"

    I also think kids would have a hard time with the "limits" joke at 4:39.

    I hadn't seen the "OCT 31 = DEC 25" joke before. I like it too.


  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2016-07-01 16:37
    Duane Degn,
    "Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na, Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na BATMAN!"
    Dang, I remember the original Batman TV show. And that was the one joke I could not fathom!

    Speaking of which:

    Q: Who was the most philosophical singer?

    A: Frank Sinatra: "Do be do be do"

  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    For those into control systems theory:

    During the Second World War a Polish pilot lost control of his Spitfire and crashed.

    The crash investigators reported: The incident was caused by a simple Pole in the complex plane.

  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    Poor old Fred is dead and gone.
    What he thought was H2O
    Was H2SO4

  • Duane DegnDuane Degn Posts: 10,588
    Heater. wrote: »
    Dang, I remember the original Batman TV show. And that was the one joke I could not fathom!

    I used to watch the original Batman TV show and I'm chemist and I still had to use Google to "get" the joke.

  • MikeDYurMikeDYur Posts: 2,176
    Duane Degn wrote: »
    Heater. wrote: »
    Dang, I remember the original Batman TV show. And that was the one joke I could not fathom!

    I used to watch the original Batman TV show and I'm chemist and I still had to use Google to "get" the joke.

    Are you going to let us in on it?
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2016-07-01 16:58
    I think all the information you need is here:

    http://forums.parallax.com/discussion/comment/1381572/#Comment_1381572

    If that is not enough, watch (listen) to this:



    It's all there about 40 seconds in.
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,256
    edited 2016-07-01 17:03
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  • Duane DegnDuane Degn Posts: 10,588
    edited 2016-07-01 17:09
    MikeDYur wrote: »
    Are you going to let us in on it?

    I thought I had.
    Duane Degn wrote: »
    "Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na, Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na BATMAN!"

    Of course this requires one to remember the "line" from the Batman song. The line in question starts at about 36 seconds into the clip Heater posted.

    Edit: In case any of you didn't take chemistry, "Na" is the atomic symbol for sodium.

  • MikeDYurMikeDYur Posts: 2,176
    Na, it went right past me.
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    A popular human cannon ball was let go from the circus act she was in.

    She said "They fired me. They will never find anyone of my calibre again"

  • mindrobotsmindrobots Posts: 6,506
    She was a bore going on about contract breech, they had to muzzle her.
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    That's disarming.
  • Peter JakackiPeter Jakacki Posts: 10,193
    The trouble was that every time they went to fire her she just exploded and went through the roof. Seems she had such a fiery personality but they did acknowledge that they saved on gunpowder as it didn't take much to set her off.

  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    Perhaps her nerves were all shot to bits and the manager went off half cocked.

    Man, we are better than the jokes in the opening post :)
  • MikeDYurMikeDYur Posts: 2,176
    Anyone know why they call them hemorrhoids? Shouldn't they be called asteroids.
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,256
    Didja hear about the butcher who backed up into his meat grinder and got a little behind in his work?
    Then his wife did the same thing? Disaster!
    Or the optician who fell into his lens grinder and made a spectacle of himself?
  • Duane DegnDuane Degn Posts: 10,588
    Then there is the guy who had his left side cut off.

    Don't worry, he's all right.
  • MikeDYurMikeDYur Posts: 2,176
    This eBay thing is out of control.

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  • JonathanJonathan Posts: 1,023

    Heater. wrote: »
    Poor old Fred is dead and gone.
    What he thought was H2O
    Was H2SO4

    My Dad, who was a chemist and an ornithologist used to say that one like this:

    Old Joe was a chemist's son
    But a chemist's son no more
    For what he thought was H2O
    Was H2SO4



  • MikeDYurMikeDYur Posts: 2,176
    edited 2016-07-03 17:13
    Heater. wrote: »
    Poor old Fred is dead and gone.
    What he thought was H2O
    Was H2SO4

    Heater beat you to punchline.
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    MikeDYur,

    Smile. You are right. The whole thing should go like this:

    Poor old Fred is dead and gone.
    He is with us no more.
    What he thought was H2O
    Was H2SO4

  • ercoerco Posts: 20,256
    Thanks Jonathan! Rhyme and meter credit where credit is due.

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