9thdoctor Posted July 7, 2013 Share Posted July 7, 2013 I got a kick out of this: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/how-many-surrealists-does-it-take-to-screw-in-a-light-bulb-a-fish-the-most-highbrow-jokes-in-the-world-8691191.html 23. Jean-Paul Sartre is sitting at a French café, 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?" 24. A classics professor goes to a tailor to get his trousers mended. The tailor asks: "Euripides?" The professor replies: "Yes. Eumenides?" 25. A programmers wife tells him: "Run to the store and pick up a loaf of bread. If they have eggs, get a dozen." The programmer comes home with 12 loaves of bread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caroljane Posted July 7, 2013 Share Posted July 7, 2013 Funny! I didn't understand #12 though. Or #22. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xray Posted July 7, 2013 Share Posted July 7, 2013 Funny! I didn't understand #12 though. Or #22.#22 might refer to the "never ending fractal shapes" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benoit_Mandelbrot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Selene Posted July 7, 2013 Share Posted July 7, 2013 Funny! I didn't understand #12 though. Or #22.#22 might refer to the "never ending fractal shapes" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benoit_MandelbrotAngela:What’s a murder of crows?A group of crows is called a “murder.” There are several different explanations for the origin of this term, mostly based on old folk tales and superstitions.For instance, there is a folktale that crows will gather and decide the capital fate of another crow.Many view the appearance of crows as an omen of death because ravens and crows are scavengers and are generally associated with dead bodies, battlefields, and cemeteries, and they’re thought to circle in large numbers above sites where animals or people are expected to soon die.But the term “murder of crows” mostly reflects a time when groupings of many animals had colorful and poetic names. Other fun examples of “group” names include: an ostentation of peacocks, a parliament of owls, a knot frogs, and a skulk of foxes.A... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caroljane Posted July 7, 2013 Share Posted July 7, 2013 Damn! I knew that! But I was thinking along the lines of "all crows are blacke"etc. Carol Slinking back to my squalor of dishes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caroljane Posted July 7, 2013 Share Posted July 7, 2013 Hence OL is "a forum of thinkers" Or.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BaalChatzaf Posted July 7, 2013 Share Posted July 7, 2013 Funny! I didn't understand #12 though. Or #22.Some fractals are generated by self embedding a pattern within itself.Ba'al Chatzaf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Selene Posted July 8, 2013 Share Posted July 8, 2013 Folks:Can someone explain #13 to me. It is the one about the juggler and the Englishman, Frenchman, Spaniard and German... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BaalChatzaf Posted July 8, 2013 Share Posted July 8, 2013 Folks:Can someone explain #13 to me. It is the one about the juggler and the Englishman, Frenchman, Spaniard and German...It is phonetic. Yes, we see ya Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Selene Posted July 8, 2013 Share Posted July 8, 2013 Folks:Can someone explain #13 to me. It is the one about the juggler and the Englishman, Frenchman, Spaniard and German...It is phonetic. Yes, we see yaBob:Thanks so much. I knew it was right in front of me. However, I kept reading it, instead of "hearing" it.A... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caroljane Posted July 9, 2013 Share Posted July 9, 2013 Which were your favourites\? Mine was #21 because the first line was so deadpan funny.then#11 and #24. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caroljane Posted July 9, 2013 Share Posted July 9, 2013 There is a worrisome aspect to all this however. When the best minds of the generation spend so much time in bars, our future could be in trouble! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Selene Posted July 9, 2013 Share Posted July 9, 2013 There is a worrisome aspect to all this however. When the best minds of the generation spend so much time in bars, our future could be in trouble!Carol:Bars are the peoples venue.One of the great failings of the Libertarian Party in NY State was their inability to make that transformation to where the worker played.I was never able to convince those effete snobs that the power to turn out votes was basically hard core, blue collar folks. Now, with all the folks on the dole, it is more than ever there.A... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caroljane Posted July 9, 2013 Share Posted July 9, 2013 There is a worrisome aspect to all this however. When the best minds of the generation spend so much time in bars, our future could be in trouble! Carol: Bars are the peoples venue. One of the great failings of the Libertarian Party in NY State was their inability to make that transformation to where the worker played. I was never able to convince those effete snobs that the power to turn out votes was basically hard core, blue collar folks. Now, with all the folks on the dole, it is more than ever there. A... Absolutely. Maybe Madam Lib will know better. An infinite number of prostitutes walked into a bar.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ginny Posted July 9, 2013 Share Posted July 9, 2013 Aren't the blue collars basically the ones who want a safety net? My family's collars are so blue, they are laden with sapphire. Every single uncle (not aunt, however) was on the dole. Is there a gender difference? Watch your answer.All the uncs lived in bars, btw. Their family crest is a jaundiced liver. I don't think they're your target audience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Selene Posted July 9, 2013 Share Posted July 9, 2013 Aren't the blue collars basically the ones who want a safety net? My family's collars are so blue, they are laden with sapphire. Every single uncle (not aunt, however) was on the dole. Is there a gender difference? Watch your answer.All the uncs lived in bars, btw. Their family crest is a jaundiced liver. I don't think they're your target audience. Ginny:They were on the dole their whole life? How were they blue collar workers then?A,... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ginny Posted July 9, 2013 Share Posted July 9, 2013 Oh.You mean I'm not blue collar? Yippee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Selene Posted July 9, 2013 Share Posted July 9, 2013 Oh.You mean I'm not blue collar? Yippee.Ginny:Is there something wrong with being "blue collar?" I will take a truck driver's ethics and common sense today over ninety percent [90%] of most college professors.A... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darrell Hougen Posted July 9, 2013 Share Posted July 9, 2013 I liked 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 16. --Darrell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ginny Posted July 9, 2013 Share Posted July 9, 2013 I agree, Adam. But being a part of those folks turned me into a snob, and I make no apologies for that. I hated the lack of curisiosity about life, the lack of books, the disrepect and loathing for anyone who isn't 'blue,' so much. I deliberately studied vocabulary after moving to the US in order to confuse them, and damn it, I succeeded. You think I'm being mean? Mean is the names I was called for going to college.So, yes, these days, so-called 'common' people are the ones with common sense. I'm the one who needs to hold on to the anti-blue snobbery for survival reasons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Selene Posted July 9, 2013 Share Posted July 9, 2013 So, yes, these days, so-called 'common' people are the ones with common sense. I'm the one who needs to hold on to the anti-blue snobbery for survival reasons.Ginny:You and I are contemporaries and I completely understand what you did to survive. Thankfully, I was raised with parents, my grandparents were originally from Northern Italy, where education was one of the highest values to pass to your children.My mother was playing the violin in Carnegie Hall at the age of eight [8]. Seemed quite logical to us.My uncle, the youngest child of three boys, and his wife, were seasons ticket holders to the Metropolitan opera. Also, seemed quite logical to us.I do not know how I would have dealt with what you had to endure. All I can say is that your parents had parents and apparently, certain anti intellectual ideas bled through to your "upbringing."You have my respect for how you survived and my compassion for what you had to endure.A... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ginny Posted July 9, 2013 Share Posted July 9, 2013 Thanks, Adam. Your family sounds incredible.I may make occasional fun of Obj., but it was the Objs I dated that introduced me to the theater and music. I had no idea what a play was, and we didn't even have a radio. My first play was Levin's Interlock, and I spent the entire night up thinking about it. It was an unrepeatable experience I'll not forget. I later joined a theater group and acted (poorly) in off-b. plays. At the same time, I also discovered music, which keeps me alive to this day.Guess I owe Ayn more than derision. I owe her a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caroljane Posted July 9, 2013 Share Posted July 9, 2013 Ginny, your family experience was truly sad. My family and my husband were blue collar (I still am), but there was no reverse snobbery about books or music -- they were part of daily life. I join Adam in celebrating your survival and hope you enjoy every day of your self-made life to the fullest! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caroljane Posted July 10, 2013 Share Posted July 10, 2013 I checked out the Replies to 9th's OP and I loved this one: A conservative, a moderate and a liberal walk into a bar. The barkeep says, "What can I get you, Mr. Romney?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caroljane Posted July 10, 2013 Share Posted July 10, 2013 Thanks, Adam. Your family sounds incredible. I may make occasional fun of Obj., but it was the Objs I dated that introduced me to the theater and music. I had no idea what a play was, and we didn't even have a radio. My first play was Levin's Interlock, and I spent the entire night up thinking about it. It was an unrepeatable experience I'll not forget. I later joined a theater group and acted (poorly) in off-b. plays. At the same time, I also discovered music, which keeps me alive to this day. Guess I owe Ayn more than derision. I owe her a lot. Ginny, I had the same experience with classical music, in that it was my Objectivist boyfriend who introduced me formally to the composers - although I already knew a lot of them just not by name, mainly through the church music that my father and I both loved, and my piano lessons. In fact the boyfriend said he was writing a symphony when I first met him. \I don't know what happened to that, as I don't think he had any musical training,but he ended up writing novels and | guess with Objectivism all things are possible. I don't feel I owe this to Rand however, but to him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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