[ExI] AI humor

[William Flynn Wallace]

To everybody:

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.

The idea was AI humor.  But it's OK.  I guess that didn't attract any
interest.

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.

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'.

bill w

On Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 4:23 PM, BillK <pharos at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 19 February 2017 at 19:59, spike  wrote:
> >
> > Wordplay is big fun, but even bigger is niche humor.  I was at a
> gathering
> > of friends last night.  Nearly everyone there is science/technical sorts,
> > ladies included.  So while we were carving nanoGeezers, I googled up
> Wolfram
> > Alpha and asked for a physics joke, being as our surgeon guest took his
> > undergrad degrees double major in physics and engineering.  It gave me
> this:
> >
> > ... two neutrinos went through a bar...
> >
> > We laughed at that silly joke like a bunch of stoners, but there was zero
> > drugs or alcohol at that party.  Why?  It was one of those insider
> things,
> > hard to explain.  After I told it, the thought occurred to me that this
> > might be the shortest joke known, six words.  Then today Adrian uncorks:
> > There there, they're their heirs.  This is sorta five and a half words.
> >
> > Conclusion: humor is weird.  The neutrino bar joke might be the shortest
> > known non-wordplay gag.
> >
>
>
> One of my all-time favourite cartoons that always makes me smile is the
> scientist standing in front of a huge blackboard covered in diagrams
> and complex formulae. Near the bottom of the diagram is a box
> containing the words "Here magic happens".
>
> BillK
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