<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">To everybody:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">You guys are like a pack of wild dogs into which a pack of pork chops has been thrown, resulting in chaos and running every which way.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">The idea was AI humor. But it's OK. I guess that didn't attract any interest.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">To Adrian: I just dunno about starboardly as to whether people would catch it without a bit of help. You guys are smarter than a typical sample. I certainly agree that too much help is numbing. But now that's academic, so there.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Is there a dumber name for any animal than 'fly'? Why isn't there an animal named 'swim'? Or 'waddle', or 'run'? We do have 'duck'.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">bill w</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 4:23 PM, BillK <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pharos@gmail.com" target="_blank">pharos@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 19 February 2017 at 19:59, spike wrote:<br>
><br>
> Wordplay is big fun, but even bigger is niche humor. I was at a gathering<br>
> of friends last night. Nearly everyone there is science/technical sorts,<br>
> ladies included. So while we were carving nanoGeezers, I googled up Wolfram<br>
> Alpha and asked for a physics joke, being as our surgeon guest took his<br>
> undergrad degrees double major in physics and engineering. It gave me this:<br>
><br>
> ... two neutrinos went through a bar...<br>
><br>
> We laughed at that silly joke like a bunch of stoners, but there was zero<br>
> drugs or alcohol at that party. Why? It was one of those insider things,<br>
> hard to explain. After I told it, the thought occurred to me that this<br>
> might be the shortest joke known, six words. Then today Adrian uncorks:<br>
> There there, they're their heirs. This is sorta five and a half words.<br>
><br>
> Conclusion: humor is weird. The neutrino bar joke might be the shortest<br>
> known non-wordplay gag.<br>
><br>
<br>
<br>
</span>One of my all-time favourite cartoons that always makes me smile is the<br>
scientist standing in front of a huge blackboard covered in diagrams<br>
and complex formulae. Near the bottom of the diagram is a box<br>
containing the words "Here magic happens".<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
BillK<br>
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