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How many surrealists does it take to screw in a light bulb? A fish: The most highbrow jokes in the world - Science - News. Scientists are not generally recognised for their sense of humour, but those disparagingly referred to as “geeks” by the more intellectually challenged of us have responded in their thousands to a question posed on the Reddit website: “What’s the most intellectual joke you know?”

How many surrealists does it take to screw in a light bulb? A fish: The most highbrow jokes in the world - Science - News

The huge number of gags – and yes, many of them are funny – cover all disciplines from physics to philosophy. They range from the accessible, such as: “A Roman walks into a bar, holds up two fingers, and says: ‘Five beers, please’,” to those that require a working knowledge of Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle to understand. The joke about Benoit B Mandelbrot, for example, relies on a knowledge of the scientist’s work on fractals. For all their highbrow intellectualism, however, the jokes follow traditional forms. They include puns: “Did you hear about the man who got cooled to absolute zero? Programming. Him: "I can download games like Quake and play them during lunch, you know.

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"Me: "We're only allowed 10 megs in our accounts, and the system administrators would notice you downloading a large file. "Him: "Nah, I could hack it so he couldn't. "Me: "Ah, so you are into hacking. By the way do you know any programming languages? " Human guitar. Kotaku, the Gamer’s Guide. The Definitive Collection Of Cat Gifs. Why the Ending of 'Star Wars' is Secretly Kind of Dumb. Siri Gets In An Argument. I Know That Feel, Bro. Do not disturb! (Занято!) Kitten Fights Scary Apples. Thumbs Up for Rock and Roll! Basic needs - extreme happiness. Darth Vader and the Imperial March on Bagpipes and Unicycle - The Unipiper. Genius-cockatoo.jpg (436×600) Puzzling Puzzle Prank. The GAG Quartet - le Internet Medley (OVER 40 MEMES IN ONE SONG)

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