Funniest Geek Joke Ever!
Egg Troll
Why can't Nerds tell Halloween from boxing day?
Because 31(hex) == 25(dec)! LOL!!
Egg Trool
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Clave
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> An oldie but goodie:
>
> Why can't Nerds tell Halloween from boxing day?
>
> Because 31(hex) == 25(dec)! LOL!!
Hey, dumbshit -- boxing day is...
Oh, never mind.
Jim
Hartmann Schaffer
would be good if the arithmetic were correct: make that 31 oct
hs
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Christopher Browne
> An oldie but goodie:
>
> Why can't Nerds tell Halloween from boxing day?
>
> Because 31(hex) == 25(dec)! LOL!!
You must be referring to innumerate nerds.
31h == 49 (decimal).
> (+ (* 3 16) 1)
49
The _real_ nerds know that Halloween takes place in OCTober, and hence
the 31 should be in OCTAL.
Nice try...
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>>
>> Why can't Nerds tell Halloween from boxing day?
>>
>> Because 31(hex) == 25(dec)! LOL!!
>
> the 31 should be in OCTAL.
Even non-nerds know that Boxing Day isn't on December 25th.
timeOday
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> Egg Troll wrote:
>> Egg Trool
>
> http://profiles.yahoo.com/eggtroll
Come on now, mjt, did you make that yourself?
Jack Strangio
> Why can't Nerds tell Halloween from boxing day?
TWIT! its: Christmas day.
>
> Because 31(hex) == 25(dec)
Nope:
Its: 31(oct) == 25(dec)
If you must joke.. GET IT RIGHT!!
Do you know what's most important in humour the timing.
Jack
I'll say this for eggtroll, he does it beautifully!
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John Griffin
That was mildly funny. No, not the "joke" -- the fact that
you fucked it up. Your version reminds me of some of lying
fraud Uri Geller's sorry attempts at arithmomancy.
By the way, here's the funniest geek joke ever:
A constant and e^x are walking down the street when they
see a differential operator approaching.
The constant panics and runs away, naturally, but e^x says
"Ha, watch this, coward, I'll go shake hands with him."
When e^x introduces himself, the differential operator says
"Hi, I'm d/dy."
Clave
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> eggt...@yahoo.com (Egg Troll) wrote
>
> > An oldie but goodie:
> >
> > Why can't Nerds tell Halloween from boxing day?
> >
> > Because 31(hex) == 25(dec)! LOL!!
> >
> > Egg Trool
>
> That was mildly funny. No, not the "joke" -- the fact that
In so many ways.
Jim
G Swaine
> An oldie but goodie:
>
> Why can't Nerds tell Halloween from boxing day?
>
> Because 31(hex) == 25(dec)! LOL!!
But... 00110001 != 00011001
(Or have you discovered "Pentium Flaw 54")
(The joke should be: "31 OCT == 25 DEC", so that 11001 == 11001)
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>
>
> A constant and e^x are walking down the street when they
> see a differential operator approaching.
>
> The constant panics and runs away, naturally, but e^x says
> "Ha, watch this, coward, I'll go shake hands with him."
>
> When e^x introduces himself, the differential operator says
> "Hi, I'm d/dy."
Ouch. Actually took me a minute to remember why that's funny... (well,
"geek-funny" anyway... ;-)
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Boxing day?
A time to honor Ali & Tyson?
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Clave
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Really? Ya think?
Jim
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John M. Gabriele
>[snip]
>
> By the way, here's the funniest geek joke ever:
>
> A constant and e^x are walking down the street when they
> see a differential operator approaching.
>
> The constant panics and runs away, naturally, but e^x says
> "Ha, watch this, coward, I'll go shake hands with him."
>
> When e^x introduces himself, the differential operator says
> "Hi, I'm d/dy."
I think you mean d/dx. :)
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Elisabeth Müller
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>"John Griffin" <theonetru...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>>
>> By the way, here's the funniest geek joke ever:
>>
>> A constant and e^x are walking down the street when they
>> see a differential operator approaching.
>>
>> The constant panics and runs away, naturally, but e^x says
>> "Ha, watch this, coward, I'll go shake hands with him."
>>
>> When e^x introduces himself, the differential operator says
>> "Hi, I'm d/dy."
>
>Ouch. Actually took me a minute to remember why that's funny... (well,
>"geek-funny" anyway... ;-)
Care to share why this should be funny?
Grant Edwards
>>> A constant and e^x are walking down the street when they
>>> see a differential operator approaching.
>>>
>>> The constant panics and runs away, naturally, but e^x says
>>> "Ha, watch this, coward, I'll go shake hands with him."
>>>
>>> When e^x introduces himself, the differential operator says
>>> "Hi, I'm d/dy."
>>
>>Ouch. Actually took me a minute to remember why that's funny... (well,
>>"geek-funny" anyway... ;-)
Well, clever maybe, but funny?
Back in high school, a buddy of mine drew a rather odd
super-hero type comic strip. The main hero was named after
somebody local that nobody then or now would recognize, but her
sidekick was "e^x man". Billed as "the only superhero
impervious to differentiation". The "main" super-hero was also
rather tangentially related to calculus, though none of the
villans nor adventures had anything to do with math.
> Care to share why this should be funny?
If you differentiate e^x, you get e^x.
Hey, _I_ never said it was funny...
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Paul Evans
tough_brea...@linuxmail.org (John M. Gabriele) wrote:
> I think you mean d/dx. :)
No; that's the point... d/dx doesn't do anything to e^x, that's why he
wasn't scared.. he didn't think he'd be affected... But instead, it turns
out to be d/dy, to which, e^x looks constant, hence is differentialed into
zero.
:P
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Grant Edwards
> On 29 Jul 2002 10:22:18 -0700
> tough_brea...@linuxmail.org (John M. Gabriele) wrote:
>
>> I think you mean d/dx. :)
>
> No; that's the point... d/dx doesn't do anything to e^x, that's
> why he wasn't scared.. he didn't think he'd be affected... But
> instead, it turns out to be d/dy, to which, e^x looks constant,
> hence is differentialed into zero.
Doh. I completely overlooked that it wasn't d/dx. It's a wee
bit funnier now (but not much).
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David Robinson
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Ugh, it's been a while since I picked up my Maths degree but IIRC e^x would
be treated as a constant if you differentiate with respect to y.
Differentiating constants eliminates them.
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John Griffin
"John M. Gabriele" <tough_brea...@linuxmail.org> wrote in message
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I really hate to say this, but...
d(e^x)/dx = e^x
d(e^x)/dy = 0
>
> ---j
The Ghost In The Machine
to subscribe to comp.lang.c++ and rec.humor, though.)
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Jack Strangio
<jvstr...@ozemail.com.au>
wrote
on Sun, 28 Jul 2002 00:31:47 GMT
<Gzxo4...@ozemail.com.au>:
> eggt...@yahoo.com (Egg Troll) writes:
>> Why can't Nerds tell Halloween from boxing day?
>
> TWIT! its: Christmas day.
>
>>
>> Because 31(hex) == 25(dec)
>
> Nope:
> Its: 31(oct) == 25(dec)
>
> If you must joke.. GET IT RIGHT!!
>
> Do you know what's most important in humour the timing.
>
> Jack
> I'll say this for eggtroll, he does it beautifully!
If this sort of trolling thing is "beautiful", I'd hate to see "ugly". :-)
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The Ghost In The Machine
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, John M. Gabriele
<tough_brea...@linuxmail.org>
wrote
on 29 Jul 2002 10:22:18 -0700
<1965299.02072...@posting.google.com>:
Well, if y = e^x, then dy/dx = y; dx/dy = 1/y = 1/e^x = my brain hurts.
Of course, it could be a partial differential operator (which
doesn't do well in Latin-1). d/dy (e^x) = 0 in that case.
d/dy (e^x + e^y) = e^y.
But it's a strange joke anyway, even to this particular software
engineer with a 19 year old math major. (No, I'm not talking
about a co-ed. :-) )
ObHumor:
A person floating in a hot air balloon somehow loses his chase
crew and gets lost. He hails the first person he comes across
walking along a field:
Balloonist: "Halloooooo down there!!!"
Walker: "Hello!"
B: "Where the heck am I?"
W: "You're about 100 feet up floating across a field."
B: *grumbles* "You must be a mathematician."
W: "Why?"
B: "Because your answer is technically correct but practically useless."
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>
> "John M. Gabriele" <tough_brea...@linuxmail.org> wrote in message
> news:1965299.02072...@posting.google.com...
>> theonetru...@hotmail.com (John Griffin) wrote in message
>> >[snip]
>> >
>> > By the way, here's the funniest geek joke ever:
>> >
>> > A constant and e^x are walking down the street when they
>> > see a differential operator approaching.
>> >
>> > The constant panics and runs away, naturally, but e^x says
>> > "Ha, watch this, coward, I'll go shake hands with him."
>> >
>> > When e^x introduces himself, the differential operator says
>> > "Hi, I'm d/dy."
then the extended punchline is as follows:
When e^x introduces himself, the differential operator says
"Hi, I'm d/dy, and when I'm finished with you you'll be 0"
(this is why the constant ran away...)
>>
>>
>> I think you mean d/dx. :)
>
> I really hate to say this, but...
>
> d(e^x)/dx = e^x
> d(e^x)/dy = 0
>
>
>>
>> ---j
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John Starrett
<snip>
> A constant and e^x are walking down the street when they
> see a differential operator approaching.
>
> The constant panics and runs away, naturally, but e^x says
> "Ha, watch this, coward, I'll go shake hands with him."
>
> When e^x introduces himself, the differential operator says
> "Hi, I'm d/dy."
If I hadn't just peed, I 'd have laughed till I.
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Spamee
Egg Troll wrote:
> An oldie but goodie:
>
> Why can't Nerds tell Halloween from boxing day?
>
> Because 31(hex) == 25(dec)! LOL!!
>
> Egg Trool
There's 10 types of people in this world.
1 will know why that joke's wrong, and 1 won't.
(Now that's a funny geek joke!)
Larry Krzewinski
Binarily I wouldn't think that was funny.
Elgin Throckmorton
> Followups.
> ObHumor:
>
> A person floating in a hot air balloon somehow loses his chase
> crew and gets lost. He hails the first person he comes across
> walking along a field:
>
> Balloonist: "Halloooooo down there!!!"
>
> Walker: "Hello!"
>
> B: "Where the heck am I?"
>
> W: "You're about 100 feet up floating across a field."
>
> B: *grumbles* "You must be a mathematician."
>
> W: "Why?"
>
> B: "Because your answer is technically correct but practically useless."
>
> :-)
Let's try this....
A woman in a hot air balloon realized she was lost.
She lowered altitude and spotted a man in a boat below.
She shouted to him, "Excuse me, can you help me?
I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago, but I
don't know where I am."
The man consulted his portable GPS and replied,
"You're in a hot air balloon approximately 30 feet above
a ground elevation of 2346 feet above sea level.
You are 31 degrees, 14.97 minutes north latitude and
100 degrees, 49.09 minutes west longitude."
She rolled her eyes and said, "You must be a Republican."
"I am," replied the man. "How did you know?"
"Well," answered the balloonist, "everything you told me
is technically correct, but I have no idea what to make of
your information, and I'm still lost. Frankly, you've not
been much help to me."
The man smiled and responded, "You must be a Democrat."
"I am," replied the balloonist. "How did you know?"
"Well," said the man,
"you don't know where you are or where you're going.
You've risen to where you are due to a large quantity
of hot air. You made a promise that you have no idea
how to keep, and you expect ME to solve your problem.
You're in EXACTLY the same position you were in before
we met, but somehow now, it's MY fault."
-Elgin
Paul Cooke
<SNIP>
> She rolled her eyes and said, "You must be a Republican."
<SNIP>
> The man smiled and responded, "You must be a Democrat."
<SNIP>
it's supposed to be a Manager and an Engineer...the manager being in the
ballon...
Roy Culley
Paul Cooke <paul@cooke100_nospam.freeserve.co.uk> writes:
> Elgin Throckmorton wrote:
>
> <SNIP>
>> She rolled her eyes and said, "You must be a Republican."
> <SNIP>
>> The man smiled and responded, "You must be a Democrat."
> <SNIP>
>
> it's supposed to be a Manager and an Engineer...the manager being in the
> ballon...
Two Linux advcates (LA) and two WinTrolls (WT) on their way to a
meeting. At the station the WT's buy a ticket each but the LA's only
buy a single ticket.
WT: Why have you only bought one ticket?
LA: Just watch what we do and you'll see.
So they get on the train and both LA's go into a toilet. A few minutes
later the inspector knocks on the toilet door:
Insp: Ticket please.
The toilet door opens a fraction and the ticket passed to the
inspector. He punches the ticket and passes it back through the door.
After the inspector has gone the two LA's come out.
WT: Wow, that was brilliant. We must do that on the way back.
So, meeting over they are at the station. The WT's go up and buy one
ticket with huge smiles on their faces. The LA's don't buy any ticket.
WT: Why haven't you bought any ticket?
LA: Just watch what we do and you'll see.
So they board the train. The WT's go into one toilet and the LA's into
the other one. Train pulls out and a LA comes out of the toilet. He
knocks on the WT's toilet:
LA: Ticket please.
The toilet door opens a fraction and the ticket passed to the LA who
takes the ticket and goes back into his toilet.
The original joke was about managers and engineers but that would have
been off topic. :-)
GreyCloud
LOL!!!
Elisabeth Müller
Thanks, David. I wasn't reading this thoroughly enough and
missed the partial differentiation. Well, e^x is just too
overconfident most of the time, isn't it?
Elisabeth
Thomas Ruedas
But the joke is different anyway: A mathematician says: "There's 3 types of
mathematicians: one who can count up to 3, and one who can't."
(Corollary: The first type is called numerical mathematicians.)
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