Funny honey
| 13 July, 2010 | Richard P. Grant |
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It all started with a little tweet, asking you to tell me your favourite science joke.
Dozens of comments later, I’m going to have to ask you to stop… please. There were a lot of jokes, some funnier than others, some apparently from a site on the internet (yes, I recognize them) and a few real gems that I hadn’t heard before. Oddly enough, physics rather than biology or chemistry seemed to be the richest source; I wonder if there’s a thesis in there somewhere?
Anyway, I promised a winner. I’ve got two in fact.
First, for what I thought was a clever twist on an old favourite, one that requires a little bit of thought (and I hadn’t heard it before!), I’m awarding a Naturally Selected sweatshirt to Jared:
And the bartender says “Sorry, we don
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These are the winners? They are not that funny. I would hate to read the losing jokes. Unless they happen to be better than the winners. We can not assume that judgments are always correct.
Russell Eisenman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology
University of Texas-Pan American
Go on then, Russell. Crack me up.
The prison joke has been around for years, if not decades. I do have to agree with Mr. Eisenman, the laugh meter doesn’t go very high with these jokes. Sorry.
As I implied above, it’s easy to criticize. The competition ran for a week; that should have been long enough to think of something funny (and don’t get me wrong–it’s not me who’s being insulted, here.)
Small suggestion: why not next time just ask everyone to vote for their favourite joke? And the highest vote win the prize?
I make no pretense that this is a democracy 😉
(And seriously, that would be too easily gamed)
I guess scientists are not that funny after all. 😉
A 15th Century Scientist walks into a clock making workshop at the University. A female student complains “Sir, I can get my clock to function perfectly, but I can’t think of a good way to display the time” The scientist ponders this carefully and then proceeds to drop his trousers revealing all to the female student.
“Sir I really dont’ see how this is going to help”
“Just put two hands and a face on it”
why is that funny?
…and the agony of peer review seeps onto the blogs in The Scientist… 🙂
Now *that* made me laugh!
I am still puzzled by the tachyon joke. Could somebody please explain it? I cannot see how the tachyon enters the bar. Having a speed greater than that of light does not make the time go backward. If we are talking about the first time tachyon came to the bar, we would see the tachyon both sitting at the bar and also going away from the bar at the same time. Light from both events will hit our eyes at the same time. This is because light took more time to travel to the bar than the tachyon. However, when tachyon leaves the bar, we would see tachyon going away from the bar but it will seem to be slower than its real speed, because light takes time to travel. However, tachyon will not appear to come to the bar, it will still appear to exit. Remember, the shortest distance light has to travel when tachyon is in the bar.
Am I missing here something. I do not want to miss a good joke. Thanks.
Optimist sees the glass as half full. Pessimist sees the glass as half empty. Engineer sees the glass as twice as big as it needs to be.