From: "Ernest Lilley" <elilley at mindspring.com>
To: "'WSFA members'" <WSFAlist at wsfa.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: [Fwd: science jokes
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 10:12:34 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at wsfa.org>

Chuck,

Great stuff. My favorite was the " Werner Heisenberg, Kurt Godel and
Noam Chomsky walk into a bar."

Anyone who doesn't get it should rush out and get degrees in physics,
logic and linguistics. Fortunately, thanks to Google, we can all be
savants.

Can you imagine what a great exercise it would be to assign a paper to
high school students asking them to explain the joke?

Ernest

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Werner Heisenberg, Kurt Godel and Noam Chomsky walk into a bar.

Heisenberg looks around the bar and says, "Because there are three of us
and because this is a bar, it must be a joke. But the question remains,
is it funny or not?"

And Godel thinks for a moment and says, "Well, because we're inside the
joke, we can't tell whether it's funny. We'd have to be outside looking
at it."

And Chomsky looks at both of them and says, "Of course it's funny.
You're just telling it wrong."