Q: How many Pak protectors does it take to change a light bulb? A: Hard to say. They keep dismantling them and using the parts as weapons.
Q: How many human protectors does it take to change a light bulb? A: Trick question. They always rig them to explode when touched by a Pak protector. Q: How many puppeteers does it take to change a light bulb? A: None. They hire someone to do it for them. Light bulbs are a significant safety risk. Q: How many tnuctipun does it take to change a light bulb? A: None, as long as you remember to feed the old one. Q: How many Slavers does it take to change a light bulb? A: CHANGE IT YOURSELF. NOW. None. Q: How many Motie Engineers does it take to change a light bulb? A: Too late. She has already repaired the bulb, which is now brighter and uses less power for the illumination it gives. It also makes Julienne fries. I was once trading light bulb jokes and Helen Keller jokes with someone-- at length-- when a third party yelled at us, "Will you STOP? These are as bad as elephant jokes!" I immediately had a spasm of inspiration and asked him, "What did Hellen Keller say to the elephant?" He was not of the Fen: he could neither guess the answer nor prevent himself from asking without hurting himself. Finally he said, "What?" " 'Will you help me change this light bulb?' " I clocked the resulting raving at eleven minutes. Matthew Joseph Harrington -----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] >Sent: Jul 18, 2009 1:03 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Basfa Digest, Vol 28, Issue 9 > >Send Basfa mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > >To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.basfa.org/listinfo.cgi/basfa-basfa.org >or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > >You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > >When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific >than "Re: Contents of Basfa digest..." > > >Today's Topics: > > 1. metahumor (Glenn Glazer) > 2. Re: metahumor (Rick Moen) > 3. Re: metahumor (Edward Cherlin) > 4. Re: metahumor (Glenn Glazer) > 5. Re: metahumor (Jay Reynolds Freeman) > 6. Re: metahumor (Jay Reynolds Freeman) > 7. Re: metahumor (Blackfeather Tanfur) > 8. Re: metahumor (Rick Moen) > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Message: 1 >Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:46:32 -0700 >From: Glenn Glazer <[email protected]> >Subject: [Basfa] metahumor >To: basfa <[email protected]> >Message-ID: > <[email protected]> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > >An engineer, a physicist and a mathematician find themselves in an anecdote, >indeed an anecdote quite similar to many that you have no doubt already >heard. After some observations and rough calculations the engineer realizes >the situation and starts laughing. A few minutes later the physicist >understands too and chuckles to himself happily, as he now has enough >experimental evidence to publish a paper. This leaves the mathematician >somewhat perplexed, as he had observed right away that he was the subject of >an anecdote, and deduced quite rapidly the presence of humor from similar >anecdotes, but considers this anecdote to be too trivial a corollary to be >significant, let alone funny. > >Best, > >Glenn >B.S. Math '99, M.S. Engr. '07 >-------------- next part -------------- >An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >URL: ><http://lists.basfa.org/private.cgi/basfa-basfa.org/attachments/20090717/a47f33e2/attachment.html> > >------------------------------ > >Message: 2 >Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:56:03 -0700 >From: Rick Moen <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [Basfa] metahumor >To: [email protected] >Message-ID: <[email protected]> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > >Quoting Glenn Glazer ([email protected]): > >> An engineer, a physicist and a mathematician find themselves in an anecdote, >> indeed an anecdote quite similar to many that you have no doubt already >> heard. > >Q: How many members of a certain demographic group does it take to >perform a specified task? > >A: A finite number: one to perform the task and the remainder to act >in a manner stereotypical of the group in question. > > >There once was an X from place B, >That satisfied predicate P, >He or she did thing A, >In an adjective way, >Resulting in circumstance C. > >-- >Cheers, "kill -9 them all. >Rick Moen Let init sort it out." >[email protected] -- Joe Bednorz ><[email protected]> > > >------------------------------ > >Message: 3 >Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:02:54 -0700 >From: Edward Cherlin <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [Basfa] metahumor >To: Rick Moen <[email protected]> >Cc: [email protected] >Message-ID: > <[email protected]> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > >On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Rick Moen<[email protected]> wrote: >> Quoting Glenn Glazer ([email protected]): >> >>> An engineer, a physicist and a mathematician find themselves in an anecdote, >>> indeed an anecdote quite similar to many that you have no doubt already >>> heard. >> >> Q: How many members of a certain demographic group does it take to >> perform a specified task? >> >> A: A finite number: one to perform the task and the remainder to act >> in a manner stereotypical of the group in question. > >That's why I like the ones that don't conform to the stereotype. > >How many FORTRAN programmers does it take to change a lightbulb? >Sorry, that's a hardware problem. > >How many psychiatrists does it take to change a lightbulb? >Only one, but it's very expensive and the lightbulb has to _want_ to change. > >How many witches does it take to change a lightbulb? >Into what? > >How many n00bs does it take to replace a lightbulb? >N00bs aren't bright enough. > >How many Zen masters does it take to put in a light bulb? >None. It's already in. > >How many Eleatics does it take to change a light bulb? >We've already explained that change is impossible. > >> -- >> Cheers, ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? "kill -9 them all. >> Rick Moen ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Let init sort it out." >> [email protected] ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?-- Joe Bednorz >> <[email protected]> >> _______________________________________________ >> Basfa mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.basfa.org/listinfo.cgi/basfa-basfa.org >> > > > >-- >Silent Thunder (??/???????????????/????????????? ?) is my name >And Children are my nation. >The Cosmos is my dwelling place, The Truth my destination. >http://earthtreasury.org/worknet (Edward Mokurai Cherlin) > > >------------------------------ > >Message: 4 >Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:20:43 -0700 >From: Glenn Glazer <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [Basfa] metahumor >Cc: [email protected] >Message-ID: <[email protected]> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed > > > >Rick Moen wrote: >> There once was an X from place B, >> That satisfied predicate P, >> He or she did thing A, >> In an adjective way, >> Resulting in circumstance C. >--- >There once was a man from Nerdoo >Whose limericks ended at line two. >--- >There once was a man from Nerdun >--- >Have you heard the limerick about Nero? >--- > >Best, > >Glenn > >-- >Westercon 64 >The First 7-bit Westercon > >July 1st to 4th, 2011 >Pro GoH: Patricia McKillip >Artist GoH: Kaja & Phil Foglio >Fan GoH: Mike Willmoth >www.westercon64.org > > > >------------------------------ > >Message: 5 >Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:09:05 -0700 >From: Jay Reynolds Freeman <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [Basfa] metahumor >To: [email protected] >Message-ID: <[email protected]> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes > > > ... that don't conform to the stereotype .. > >Q: How many computer hardware engineers does it take to change a >lightbulb? >A: Let's fix it in software ... > >Q: How many programmers does it take to change a lightbulb? >A: Let's just document it ... > >Q: How many technical writers does it take to change a lightbulb? >A: Well, we were going to leave the user in the dark anyway ... > > > >Q: How many Marxist/Leninists does it take to screw in a lightbulb? >A: None, for the lightbulb contains the seeds of its own revolution!!! > > > >Now, don't get me going on the Star Trek ones ... > >-- Jay Reynolds Freeman >--------------------- >[email protected] >http://web.mac.com/jay_reynolds_freeman (personal web site) > > > >------------------------------ > >Message: 6 >Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:12:24 -0700 >From: Jay Reynolds Freeman <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [Basfa] metahumor >To: [email protected] >Message-ID: <[email protected]> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > >Oh, and for reference, I have archived the Extropian light bulb >jokes on the "Strange" page of my web site ... > >http://web.mac.com/Jay_reynolds_freeman/My/Strange.html > >-- Jay Reynolds Freeman >--------------------- >[email protected] >http://web.mac.com/jay_reynolds_freeman (personal web site) > > > >------------------------------ > >Message: 7 >Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:23:28 -0700 >From: Blackfeather Tanfur <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [Basfa] metahumor >To: [email protected] >Message-ID: > <[email protected]> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > >On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Rick Moen<[email protected]> wrote: >> There once was an X from place B, >> That satisfied predicate P, >> He or she did thing A, >> In an adjective way, >> Resulting in circumstance C. > >And then there's "Your State's Name Here", by Lou and Peter Berryman. > See lyrics at http://www.guntheranderson.com/v/data/yourstat.htm -- >similar idea, spoofing verse in verse. > >Cheers, >Blackfeather / Craig > > >------------------------------ > >Message: 8 >Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 02:26:14 -0700 >From: Rick Moen <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [Basfa] metahumor >To: [email protected] >Message-ID: <[email protected]> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > >Quoting Glenn Glazer ([email protected]): > >> --- >> There once was a man from Nerdoo >> Whose limericks ended at line two. >> --- >> There once was a man from Nerdun >> --- >> Have you heard the limerick about Nero? >> --- > >See .sig! (For great justice.) > >-- >Rick Moen There was an old man Said with a laugh, "I >r...@linuxmafia From Peru, whose lim'ricks all Cut them in half, the pay >is > .com Looked like haiku. He Much better for two." > --Emmet O'Brien > > >------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >Basfa mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.basfa.org/listinfo.cgi/basfa-basfa.org > > >End of Basfa Digest, Vol 28, Issue 9 >************************************ e pur si muove _______________________________________________ Basfa mailing list [email protected] http://lists.basfa.org/listinfo.cgi/basfa-basfa.org
