November Jokes
The jokes are a rough translation from a Russian collection, except the last one I invented myself.
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— Moishe, do you know how many cuckolds are there in Odessa not counting you?
— What? What do you mean by saying “not counting you”?
— Sorry. Okay then, how many counting you?
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At a very prestigious Russian nursery school a teacher talks to a four-year-old applicant.
“Mike, can you count for me?”
Mike counts very fast and with a lot of enthusiasm, “Fifty-nine, fifty-eight, fifty-seven…”
“Super,” says the teacher, “But how did you learn to count backwards?”
Mike replies proudly, “I can heat my own lunch — in the microwave.”
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The curl of the curl equals the gradient of the divergence minus the Laplacian. Why do I remember this shit that I never need, but can’t remember where I put my keys yesterday?
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In a bike store:
Customer: “Can you show me your finest helmet? I’ve already spent $200,000 on my head, so I don’t want to take any risks.”
Clerk, sympathetically: “You had a head trauma?”
Customer: “No, I went to college.”
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A topologist walks into a cafe:
— Can I have a doughnut of coffee, please.
Xamuel:
Q: Why are Asians (especially Chinese and Japanese) better at real analysis?
13 November 2010, 12:13 pmA: They have an uncountable number of characters to use as variable names.
Olga:
Was it supposed to be “A topologist” and not “I topologist”, or is there a special I-topogy theory?
20 November 2010, 3:30 pmI love this joke!!!
Tanya Khovanova:
Olga,
Yes, you are right. I fixed the typo.
20 November 2010, 4:54 pm