ls. He sets up his
powerpoint presentation and hits the key and up pops a picture of an empy
blood-stained cross with three nails with the caption:
"SHOULD HAVE USED
JOHNSON NAILS."
Blackfoot love
allegorical humor.
Jim
James M. Craven
Blackfoot Name: Omahkohkiaayo-i'poyi
Professor/Consu
Devine, James wrote:
is there an on-line discussion group that specializes in humor?
is it called borscht-belt-l?
Don't forget news://alt.politics.socialism.trotsky!
Doug
Now THAT'S funny. Lisa S.
on 09/24/2002 5:42 PM, Doug Henwood at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Devine, James wrote:
is there an on-line discussion group that specializes in humor?
is it called borscht-belt-l?
Don't forget news://alt.politics.socialism.trotsky!
Doug
joanna bujes wrote:
Don't forget news://alt.politics.socialism.trotsky!
Doug
Hey Doug. Netscape says it can't find it. Was THAT the joke? Well,
too bad, cause this is my one and only chance to tell my Trotsky
joke:
Heavens no. I haven't visited it in ages. I can't remember the last
time I
Don't forget news://alt.politics.socialism.trotsky!
Doug
Hey Doug. Netscape says it can't find it. Was THAT the joke? Well, too bad,
cause this is my one and only chance to tell my Trotsky joke:
A messanger arrives at the Kremlin bearing a telegram.
I must speak to Comrade Stalin, he cries
Doug Henwood wrote:
joanna bujes wrote:
Don't forget news://alt.politics.socialism.trotsky!
Hey Doug. Netscape says it can't find it. Was THAT the joke? Well,
too bad, cause this is my one and only chance to tell my Trotsky
joke:
Heavens no. I haven't visited it in ages. I can't remember
Title: RE: [PEN-L:30525] Re: Re: humor
it's more likely that Joanna's browser isn't currently set up to read newsgroups. Mine isn't either.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
-Original Message-
From: Doug Henwood [mailto
Title: RE: [PEN-L:30527] RE: Re: Re: humor
I sent the following message:
it's more likely that Joanna's browser isn't currently set up to read newsgroups. Mine isn't either.
this appears in the archive of the listserver.
but the following is what I got from the list in MS Outlook
RE: [PEN-L:30527] RE: Re: Re: humor
- Original Message -
From: Devine, James
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 3:52 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:30531] RE: RE: Re: Re: humor
I sent the following message:
it's more likely that Joanna's browser isn't currently set up to read
Ian in reply to Jim:
Your font's too small? :-)
Jim,
You really need to do something about your font size and this is
not a joke.
Or maybe it is.
But please do something about it. Most of us are not that young
anymore, you know?
Sabri
Sabri Oncu wrote:
But please do something about it. Most of us are not that young
anymore, you know?
Your mail program _may_ have a command that will increase the font size
of the post you are reading. With Netscape Communicator each time one
hits Alt V F the font increases.
Carrol
W. wants to balance the budget by reducing taxes. What next?
I was wondering last night. What company now in distress would give me
the most pleasure by crashing?
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
W. wants to balance the budget by reducing taxes. What next?
I was wondering last night. What company now in distress would give
me
the most pleasure by crashing?
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
M. Pugliese: But, YUP, as Doug said
the other day, pen-l isn't the place for humor, mockery or saracasm,
self-deprecation, immolation lest that Old Mole of Criticism
Inflame those damn Carbuncles in the marxian Whiskers.
^^^
CB: Or it may be that some people on Pen-L have a different sense
If anyone needs an example of the mis-use of cost-benefits analysis...Of
course, if something this sloppy and shoddy had been done to justify (for
example) increased environmental regulation, it would have been laughed at
and dismissed by NBER economist types.
This reminds me for three unrelated
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Leo Casey
United Federation of Teachers
260 Park Avenue South
New York, New York 10010-7272
212-98-6869
Power concedes nothing without a demand.
It never has, and it never will.
If there is no struggle, there
NY Times, June 6, 2001
C.I.A. Director Is Going to Israel in Effort to Maintain Calm
By JANE PERLEZ
WASHINGTON, June 5 - The Bush administration announced today that it was
sending the director of central intelligence to the Middle East to meet
with leaders of Israeli and Palestinian security
Louis Proyect wrote:
You can also see contempt for working people in shows like SNL or Mad TV,
which
offer up skits about feckless messengers, waiters, or truck drivers when
they are not mocking black people or the retarded. The funny thing, of
course, is that these shows are uniformly unfunny.
e
response was "you have no sense of humor." The more recent experienced
involved a President Elect of the AMA and a noted Radiologist telling crude
anti-women jokes in public meetings. In the former case I pointedly
objected to the Executive Director of the American College of Radio
e
response was "you have no sense of humor."
Actually, the character who inspired this thread--one Joe Queenan--is a
frequent guest on the Don Imus show, which along with the Howard Stern
show, encapsulates what's wrong with mainstream humor. Unlike the Marx
Brothers, Mark Twain or J
Louis Proyect wrote:
Actually, the character who inspired this thread--one Joe Queenan--is a
frequent guest on the Don Imus show, which along with the Howard Stern
show, encapsulates what's wrong with mainstream humor. Unlike the Marx
Brothers, Mark Twain or Jonathan Swift, humor on these shows
Barry.
In fact, do Lefties have a sense of humor? Or do you have to wait until
the revolution comes before you are permitted to smile?
(BTW, not all leftists are revolutionaries, as should be obvious from pen-l.)
My experience is that people who lack a sense of humor are distributed
randoml
David's question about
conservative/liberal humor got me
thinking. What kind of humor
characterizes different political
movements?
All groups can poke fun at particular
individuals. Clinton's eating habits or
George W.'s speech patterns are obvious
examples.
David mentioned O'Rourke. I'm
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 11:18 AM
Subject: [PEN-L:9734] humor
[was: Re: [PEN-L:9723] RE: Re: RE: Re: A Fair Deal?]
David S. wrote:
Michael --
I am not surprised at all that you don't find P.J. O'Rourke funny. You
don't strike me as a Republ
four to share the experience.
and my all time fave
How many Zen Buddhists does it take to screw in a
light bulb?
Answer: Two. One to screw in the light bulb and one
NOT to screw in the light bulb.
Barkley Rosser
No. It's four.
the 3rd screws in the
At 01:39 PM 3/29/01 -0500, you wrote:
How many Madisonians does it take to screw in
a light bulb?
my answer is the same, and different, based on political theory:
Three, because one person can't be trusted with all the power.
How many Californians does it take to screw in
a light
How many Teamsters does it take to change a light bulb?
Thirteen. You have a problem with that?
to assume the ladder and one to change the bulb.
See generally:
http://dir.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Humor/Jokes/Light_Bulb_Jokes/
David Shemano
Correction. I meant the SAME one
-Original Message-
From: Brown, Martin (NCI)
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 2:22 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: [PEN-L:9755] RE: Re: humor
How many quantum mechanics does it take to screw in the light bulb?
One to screw it in at a probability
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Subject: [PEN-L:9749] Re: humor
How many Madisonians does it take to screw in
a light bulb?
Answer: Three. One to screw in the light bulb,
one to order the morning buns, and one to reminisce
about the sixties.
How many Californians does it take to screw in
a light bulb
Q: How many neoclassical economists does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: It would never get screwed in because the dark room exists and
therefore must be the result of market efficiency and pareto optimality so
there is no reason to screw in a light bulb; i.e. just accept the
David posted:
Now you have inspired me:
Q: How many Marxists does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: None -- The light bulb's own internal contradictions
contain the seeds
of its own revolution.
A: Two - one to screw it in, and a second to hand out leaflets.
Q: How many
At 02:27 PM 3/29/01 -0500, you wrote:
Q: How many neoclassical economists does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: It's hard to tell, but one thing we know is that the government can't be
trusted to do so!
or:
A: first we have to prove that the light bulb exists!
Jim Devine [EMAIL
- Original Message -
From: "Brown, Martin (NCI)" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 11:22 AM
Subject: [PEN-L:9755] RE: Re: humor
How many quantum mechanics does it take to screw in the light bulb?
One to screw it in at a probability of 9
How many economists does it take to flog a joke about light bulbs into
oblivion?
Ian
at least it's not a pointless flame-war, though of course the latter would
make screwing in the light bulb unnecessary.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
At 02:27 PM 3/29/01 -0500, you wrote:
Q: How many neoclassical economists
does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: The bulb would not have burned out in the first
place if not for government regulation.
Eric
.
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
Postscript:
Q. How many graduate students does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A. One, but it takes him eight years.
probably the more correct answer is:
Q. How many graduate students does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A. one graduate student and one
- Original Message -
From: "Jim Devine" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 11:40 AM
Subject: [PEN-L:9763] Re: Re: RE: Re: humor
How many economists does it take to flog a joke about light bulbs into
oblivion?
Ian
at
How many ants does it take to screw in a light
bulb?
Answer: Two, if they can get inside.
Barkley Rosser
- Original Message -
From: "Jim Devine" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 2:02 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:9752] Re: Re: humor
At 01:
I don't know if there ever will be an answer to Yoshie's question: "Where's
an American conservative
today who writes like Michael Oakeshott?" because it would actually require
such a conservative to have a sense of humor (or irony even), although at
the risk of pen-l ad hominem
, March 29, 2001 2:27 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:9758] RE: RE: Re: humor
Q: How many neoclassical economists does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: It would never get screwed in because the dark room exists and
therefore must be the result of market efficiency and pareto optimality so
there is
The Economy
It's Not Going to Get Better, Brace for Recession (March 15, 2001)
By Greg Tarpinian, LRA Executive Director
Just a couple of weeks ago most mainstream economic forecasters saw the economy
heading for a much vaunted "soft landing" under the steady hand of Fed impresario Alan
if there ever will be an answer to Yoshie's question: "Where's
an American conservative
today who writes like Michael Oakeshott?" because it would actually require
such a conservative to have a sense of humor (or irony even), although at
the risk of pen-l ad hominem censure, I nominate
My favorite Laffer story is when I saw him debate JK Galbraith at Harvard
and he broke into an accented broken English to disparage the Mexican
economy. The right defintely has a supply-side perspective on humor.
- Original Message -
From: "Charles Brown" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Postscript:
Q. How many graduate students does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A. One, but it takes him eight years.
Q: How many actors does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: 10.. One to screw in the lightbulb and 9 to stand below and
shout "that should be me up there!"
If you trace this legend back I suspect you will find its origins in the
failure of British feminists to acknowledge how funny forced feeding
was. Many feminists have also been lamentably incapable of seeing how
funny wife beating is.
Carrol
that I was a bit too elliptic here,
and some expansion seems worthwhile.
I meant the legend of left humorlessness. I was partly being sarcastic
and partly implying a historical hypothesis: that the charge of lacking
humor has always been the first line of defense against "uppity
e to screw it in, and four to talk
about how
great the old bulb was
Barkley Rosser
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From: "Brown, Martin (NCI)"
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 2:27 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:9758] RE: RE: Re: humor
Q: H
http://www.ny.frb.org/rmaghome/curr_iss/ci6-14.html
December 2000
Volume 6, Number 14
Lowering Electricity Prices through
Deregulation
Thomas Klitgaard and Rekha Reddy
A wave of regulatory reform is now
transforming the U.S.
electricity industry. As state and
federal
[received over the web...]
Newspaper Readers:
To help us understand whom we're dealing with . . . .
The Wall Street Journal is read by the people who run the country.
The New York Times is read by people who think they run the country.
The Washington Post is read by people who think they
A distraught man consulted a clergyman regarding his situation. The
clergyman recommended to open a Bible and see the first words that he
comes upon. Sometime later, the clergyman encounters the man, who had
previously been disheveled and not looking very prosperous. Now the man
looks well
A few "famous quotations":
Mark Twain: "It's not what we don't know that hurts us; - it's that we
know so much that ain't true."
"It's not what we don't know that hurts us,
it's what we know for sure that just ain't so."
O Mark Twain
"It is not what we don't know that is the
rhetoric is more readily ridiculed than Soviet rhetoric and appeared
funnier to Americans. Of course, this cannot be racism, but please tell
me what it is.
In many cultures, humors involves realizing a senseless situation or
one's own senseless errors. American culture places humor more directly
Ha ha. Marxism jokes. How funny. And topical too! Those Marxists, riding
high so full of themselves - fat, neglected targets!
Doug
Max Sawicky wrote:
I've gotten worse from HCKL in the past and didn't complain, but I'm not
gonna bother him any more; he takes the fun out of it.
Give an example or evidence what you got from me in the past that justifies your
making fun of my name.
BTW, if you had pronounced my name LIU
Henry made a useful point. Get a K Liu is clever, but it can also be
insulting.
I've gotten worse from HCKL in the past and didn't complain, but I'm not
gonna bother him any more; he takes the fun out of it. And Hoover called me
icky. Get it? Icky Sawicky.
Big guys have feelings too.
Tom Kruse's informative note on humor reminds us that we have to keep
the context in mind. One question: Wasn't the Bolivian meeting a public
meeting, designed to boost morale while the Nicaraguan exchanges were
private?
I am reminded of the different attitudes towards funerals. Sometimes,
we
Tom Kruse wrote:
On the other hand, I find that in academic-ish US culture (like this list)
humor is ubiquitous and often quite healthy. Yet sometimes, upon returning
to the US -- or just downloading email -- I am sometimes blown away by how
horrific events can be addressed in a humorous mode; I
Henry made a useful point. Get a K Liu is clever, but it can also be
insulting.
Some people come on the list blasting away, shooting from the hip.
Louis P. is an example. I hope that it is fair to say that although his
politics are serious, his demeanor is playful and he is thick skinned
rding to the Koran your wife should be walking ten
feet behind YOU?" And Mohammed replies: "Ah, yes. But that was before land
mines."
My guess is that the story originated in that period and circulated as
part of the then rabid anti-Islamic humor/ideology that flowered during
the post-1
A journalist had done a story on gender roles in Kuwait several years
before the Gulf War, and she noted then that women customarily walked
about 10 feet behind their husbands. She returned to Kuwait recently and
observed that the men now walked several yards behind their wives.
She
Subject: "signs of the times"
The following are actual signs seen across the good ol' U.S.A.
At gas eateries through the nation: Eat here and get gas.
At a Santa Fe gas station: We will sell gasoline to anyone in a
glass container.
In a New York restaurant:
A panda walks into a restaurant, sits down, and orders a sandwich. After
finishing the sandwich, the panda pulls out a gun and shoots the waiter dead.
As the panda stands up to leave, the mangers shouts, "Hey! Where are you
going? You just shot my waiter and you did not pay your bill!"
The
A panda walks into a restaurant, sits down, and orders a sandwich. After
finishing the sandwich, the panda pulls out a gun and shoots the waiter dead.
As the panda stands up to leave, the mangers shouts, "Hey! Where are you
going? You just shot my waiter and you did not pay your bill!"
The
I hope you'll appreciate this:
Posted on 14 Dec 1996 at 23:45:10 by TELEC List Distributor (011802)
FW: Christmas restructuring...
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 23:45:05 -0500
Reply-To: URI Faculty Senate List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: David Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
'Tis the
What did the elephant say to the naked man?
"How do you eat with that thing?"
maggie coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Two economists (one a Chicago School devotee of Uncle Miltie and one
A Rational Expectationist) were walking down the road and came across
a pile of shit. The Chicago School devotee of Miltie offered the
Rational Expectationist $20,000 to eat the shit. After a quick
optimization calculation,
(y)M*W=(y)D
M=money
W=work
D=debt
y=percentage of income spent on consumption
If one cancels the y out, then all the money earned at work goes to debt. If
one does not work, one does not incur debt. (HA)
maggie coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Treacy: And then we have:
Summation sign IOU'S=Summation sign UOME'S
If you both sides of the equation by O and U you are left with:
Summation sign I's=Summation sign ME's
[EMAIL PROTECTED] copyrighted
On Sat, 19 Oct 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(y)M*W=(y)D
ss Money You Make.
Solving for Money, we get:
M = W/K (6)
Money equals Work Over Knowledge.
From equation (6) we see that Money approaches infinity as Knowledge
approaches 0, regardless of the Work done.
What THIS MEANS is:
The More you Make, the Less you Know.
Solving for Work,
First on Jim Craven's apologies: Don't bend over backwards, Jim. I
enjoyed your tirade immensely. Right on!
Secondly: It should be a consolation that libertarianism f.inst. in
Europe is a non-significant phenomenon (does it have any punch ANYWHERE
outside the U.S.?). Market liberalism, yes, but
James Michael Craven 7/10 joins PR Burns (in the misty past) in
mistaking me for a Libertarian, using the broad and
enthusiastically-wielded brush of his lengthy psychoanalytic foray (some
of which actually described many of the libertarians I've known), joined
to
ily circle.
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Subject: [PEN-L:5065] Libertarians, suicide, and humor
Author: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (GC-Etchison; Michael) at SMTPLINK-LMU
Date:7/10/96 1:18 PM
James Michael Craven 7/10 joins PR Burns (in the misty past) in
mi
I just received a quite incredible caricature of "Employer Rights" groups
through the mail, seeking to promote their document "Fire At Will". A
couple of quotes:
"At the Institute we're on your side. We think you owe it to
yourself and your company to learn how to tell whomever you
please hit the delete key immediately...naturally, as the PC guy i am, i
deleted the obligatory naughty bits...
From: Pat McGraw mcgraw
Subject: UNIX is a joke
These are some things that many Unix operating systems will print in
response to various commands. What the user has typed has a
PROGRAM PATTERNS SOCIETAL EVOLUTION
Researchers at the Brookings Institution have developed a computer program
that generates artificial societies and tracks how they evolve over time.
The Computerrarium program uses a "bottom up" approach, in which elaborate
structures emerge from the collective
Pen-l has been pretty grim of late, so here goes. (WARNING: some
will be offended, including maybe even my employers.)
TOP TEN REASONS
WHY BEER IS BETTER THAN JESUS
10. No one will kill you for not drinking Beer.
9. Beer doesn't tell you how to have sex.
8. Beer has never caused a major war.
An economist is someone who talks in other people's sleep.
Oh, and also a person with a flair for numbers who lacked the personality
to be an accountant. But you probably knew that one.
Doug
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I'm looking for (clean) jokes and one-liners about economics and economists
-- would be interested in both individual contributions and info on any
compilations that may exist.
Charles Whalen
Jerome Levy Economics Institute
Bard College
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