So cross posting this with the mail I sent on my eList earlier today, just to prove I am my fathers son.
My MailI wonder do non engineer, non geek, non maths people find this funny [Pictures below]? Because I laughed out loud in a really embarrassing way in the office. I'll throw in an extra, my favourite
mathsengineering joke as a bonus"2 is not equal to 3, not even for very large values of 2"
Aaah it's all chuckles in the maths world.
Adrian
Dad's ReplyNo they dont. Conversation in the office on this last bout of freezing weather.
Other: Got photo's of the snow in Ceres
Me: Got photo's of the snow in parallel.
Lot of blank stares.
Dad
1. The B
I must be only half geek - I laughed at Peter’s expansion, half chuckled at the first one and not a murmer for the last two.
And for anyone who says, that doesn’t add up - I figured I got an extra 1/8s geekiness for working out that that took me to 3/8.
2. Adrian
I the first one had me in absolute stitches. But then I did those equations at uni, so maybe that had something to do with it.
3. Destructor
Your dad’s joke was pretty funny.
4. Gordon
Yeah, still not that funny.
5. matthew
Maths SUCKS, yeah?
Well my maths does anyway.
Know any videogame and/or science-fiction-based jokes/humour? No?
Dang.
6. charlene
Well, I’m studying Math at the mo’ and found those pix EXTREMELY amusing. (relishing in the fact that I actually now CAN UNDERSTAND the material!)
7. Lish
I laughed heartily at all of them. But I would probably find just about anything funny as I am supposed to be studying for med school exams. And have just had two glasses of wine as I thought it may help with revision.
8. Chris
I laughed at all of them, even though I’d seen them before. I’m such a geek.
9. Shervin
Sevitz-dog, I have to admit that I found Peter’s expansion the funniest partly because the teacher clearly didn’t.
I’m a chemist so I like this one: All that glitters is not gold, but at least it contains free electrons
But you may find this amusing: What is the difference between a physicist, an engineer, and a mathematician?
If an engineer walks into a room and sees a fire in the middle and a bucket of water in the corner, he takes the bucket of water and pours it on the fire and puts it out.
If a physicist walks into a room and sees a fire in the middle and a bucket of water in the corner, he takes the bucket of water and pours it eloquently around the fire and lets the fire put itself out.
If a mathematician walks into a room and sees a fire in the middle and a bucket of water in the corner, he convinces himself there is a solution and leaves.
10. Gert
God bloody dammit. I larfed at ‘em all.
Prolly cos I am an accountant…
11. James
I do not approve of Sherv’s anti-mathematican joke.
Here are 3 proofs from the science world that all odd numbers over 1 are prime:
The chemist: “3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, therefore all odd numbers are prime.”
The physicist: “3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9… we’ll come back to 9. 11 is prime, 13 is prime. Therefore all odd numbers are prime and our observations of 9 are down to experimental error.”
The engineer: “3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is prime, 11 is prime, 13 is prime, 15 is prime, …”