Puns for Educated Minds is one of my most viewed posts. While I search for more groan-worthy puns, you can occupy waste your time with these educated groan-worthy jokes, courtesy of tickld. I’m sure that these jokes are the talk of any MENSA meeting.
1. It’s hard to explain puns to kleptomaniacs because they always take things literally.
2. What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
3. Three logicians walk into a bar. The bartender asks “Do you all want a drink?”
The first logician says “I don’t know.”
The second logician says “I don’t know.”
The third logician says “Yes!”
4. Schrodinger’s cat walks into a bar. And doesn’t.
5. A Buddhist monk approaches a hotdog stand and says “Make me one with everything.”
6. A Roman walks into a bar and asks for a martinus.
“You mean a martini?” the bartender asks.
The Roman replies, “If I wanted a double, I would have asked for it!”
7. Another Roman walks into a bar, hold up two fingers and says “Five beers, please.”
8. A logician’s wife is having a baby. The doctor immediately hands the newborn to the dad.
His wife asks impatiently “So, is it a boy or a girl?”
The logician replies “Yes.”
9. Jean-Paul Satre is sitting at a French café, revising his draft of Being and Nothingness. He says to the waitress, “I’d like a cup of coffee, please, with no cream.” The waitress replies, “I’m sorry, Monsieur, but we’re out of cream. How about with no milk?”
10. Entropy isn’t what it used to be.
11. How can you tell the difference between a chemist and a plumber? Ask them to pronounce unionized.
12. Why do engineers confuse Halloween and Christmas?
Because Oct 31 = Dec 25
13. Werner Heisenberg, Kurt Godel, and Noam Chomsky walk into a bar. Heisenberg turns to the other two and says, “Clearly this is a joke but how can we figure out if it’s funny or not?” Godel replies, “We can’t know because we’re inside the joke.” Chomsky says, “Of course, it’s funny. You’re just telling it wrong.”
14. Pavlov is sitting at a pub enjoying a pint. His phone rings and he jumps up shouting “Oh shit, I forgot to feed the dog!”
15. Helium walks into a bar and orders a beer. The bartender says “Sorry, we don’t serve noble gases here.” He doesn’t react.
16. Einstein, Newton and Pascal are playing hide and go seek. It’s Einstein’s turn to count so he covers his eyes and starts counting to ten. Pascal runs off and hides. Newton draws a one meter by one meter square on the ground in front of Einstein then stands in the middle of it. Einstein reaches ten and uncovers his eyes. He sees Newton immediately and says “Newton! I found you! You’re it!”
Newton smiles and says “You didn’t find me, you found a Newton over a square meter. You found Pascal!”
17. A mathematician and an engineer agreed to take part in an experiment. They were both placed in a room and at the other end was a beautiful naked woman on a bed. The experimenter said every 30 seconds they would be allowed to travel half the distance between themselves and the woman. The mathematician said “this is pointless” and stormed off. The engineer agreed to go ahead with the experiment anyway. The mathematician exclaimed on his way out “Don’t you see, you’ll never reach her?” To which the engineer replied, “So what? Pretty soon I’ll be close enough for all practical purposes.”
18. A Higgs Boson walks into a church and the priest says “We don’t allow Higgs Bosons in here.” The Higgs Boson replies, “But without me, how could you have mass?
19. The programmer’s wife tells him, “Run to the store and pick up a loaf of bread. If they have eggs, get a dozen.
The programmer comes home with 12 loaves of bread.
20. There’s a band called 1023Mb. They haven’t had any gigs yet.
Advice [with commentary]
People cannot resist giving advice. Most of it is unwanted, unwarranted or useless. Shakespeare’s Polonius, he of “Neither a borrower nor a lender be,” was full of advice and was also a deceitful old fool. Hamlet rewarded Polonius for this advice by stabbing him: He should have stabbed him sooner.
While I am not planning to stab anyone, I am going to add my own curmudgeonly commentary to some advice and comments that I received recently.
Your shoes are the first thing people subconsciously notice about you. Wear nice shoes. [Wear more if it’s cold unless you are auditioning for a job as a stripper.]
If you sit for more than 11 hours a day, there’s a fifty percent chance you’ll die within the next three years. [So move around every 10 hours and 59 minutes.]
There are at least 6 people in the world who look exactly like you. There is a 9% chance that you’ll meet one of them in your lifetime. [None of these people will look like Brad Pitt or Angelina Jolie.]
Sleeping without a pillow reduces back pain and keeps your spine stronger. [Sleeping without a bed does not.]
A person’s height is determined by their father and their weight is determined by their mother. [It’s always your parents’ fault.]
If a part of your body “falls asleep,” you can almost always “wake it up” by shaking your head. [If your head falls asleep, you’re probably dead.]
There are three things the human brain cannot resist noticing – food, attractive people and danger. [For men, this is defined as beer, large breasts and “honey do” lists.]
Putting dry tea bags in gym bags or smelly shoes will absorb the unpleasant odor. [Using the tea bag afterwards will not.]
According to Albert Einstein, if honey bees were to disappear from earth, humans would be dead within 4 years. [Sooner if preceded by nuclear holocaust.]
There are so many kinds of apples that if you ate a new one every day, it would take over 20 years to try them all. [Also true for micro-breweries.]
People who laugh a lot are healthier than those who don’t. [Unless you laugh at a Hell’s Angel.]
Our brain uses the same amount of power as a 10-watt bulb. [Which is why we see people who have a bright idea with a 10 watt bulb over their heads.]
Our body gives off enough heat in 30 minutes to boil 1.5 liters of water. [So if you sit in a bathtub long enough, will you heat it up?]
Stomach acid (HCl) is strong enough to dissolve razor blades. [Be environmentally sound by swallowing razor blades after using them.]
Take a 10 to 30 minute walk every day and while you walk, smile. It is the ultimate antidepressant. [Not true. When I take a 30 minute walk, I grimace.]
Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day. [For a teenager, make it 10 hours instead of 10 minutes.]
Life is too short to waste time hating anyone. Forgive them for everything. [But don’t forget their names.]
Frame every so-called disaster with these words: “In five years, will this matter?” [If yes, then elevate “so-called” to “cataclysmic.”]
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