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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?” 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? It is rather unfair to assume that there is anything improbable about science overlapping with humour. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Programming. Him: "I can download games like Quake and play them during lunch, you know. "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? "Him: "Yeah, of course. "Me: "Which ones? " I almost cried laughing. One day I was in a public park, reading "C++ For Dummies" when someone came up and asked me what I was reading. Teacher: "You can't do spaces in HTML. My Friend: "Yesterday, I reprogrammed my computer. " I was the night-time operator for a university in the northern part of the state. One evening a student was in the pickup area, looking at her listing, and crying.

At that point she let out a great wail and sob. "Huh? " It turned out the the instructor told the class what all instructors tell their classes for the first computer program they ever write. Export PATH # Export path User: "Hey, can you help me? Human guitar. Kotaku, the Gamer’s Guide. The Definitive Collection Of Cat Gifs.

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