Wanted: punch line for joke
by ametheus » Tue Apr 20, 2010 3:18 pm UTC
A while ago, when I was on Math Camp¹, I had a really weird math dream. I awoke with a question in my head that sounded just like the beginning of a very funny, nerdy joke in a genre comparable to "changing a light bulb". However, no matter how often I tried, I've never been able to dream of a punch line to the joke. Maybe someone with more imagination than me can help me out, and finish it for me?
The question is:
How many topologists² can you fit inside a soda can?
Looking forward to your responses.
Thijs-Johan
Department of Mathematics, Leiden University
¹: Yes, this is a real thing: http://www.vierkantvoorwiskunde.nl/
²: A topologist is someone who specializes in the field of Topology. Note that any topologist would likely interpret the outside of the soda can as the inside, therefore the can would contain every topologist in the universe. This comment is in itself an excellent suggestion for an answer, that, in most audiences, would at least produce a titter or two. However, anyone familiar with the study of topology would think this rather obvious. I'm looking for an answer slightly more creative than this.
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 20 April 2010 22:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Korf invents a new type of joke that only works hours after the fact
everyone sits around listening, bored
but later that night suddenly in bed you wake up beaming like a baby newly fed.
― David SBanner (zvookster), Tuesday, 20 April 2010 22:39 (fourteen years ago) link