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12 November 2005

What's purple and commutes?
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An Abelian grape.
Q: What is lavender and commutes? A: An Abelian semigrape.

Q: What's purple, commutes, and is worshipped by a limited number of people? A: A finitely-venerated Abelian grape.

post by: Edible Energy at: 02:05 | 11 comments

Q: What's yellow and equivalent to the axiom of choice?

A: Zorn's lemon

posted by kenko 12 November | 03:39

What's purple and commutes? Me on my motorcycle in November. Nothing like a forty-mph windchill on top of already freezing weather to turn your fingers to icicles.

posted by Eideteker 12 November | 03:41

Q. Why is birdflu so dangerous?
A. Because it's Untweetable.

Q. What's brown and sticky?
A. A stick.

Q. What's Green and green and green and green and green and red and red and red?
A. Frog in a Blender.

posted by seanyboy 12 November | 07:46

Q: What's bronze and gray and made of leather?

A: George Hamilton

posted by Slack-a-gogo 12 November | 09:34

Q. What's brown and sticky?
A. A stick.

Oh lordy, that's a keeper.

posted by Edible Energy 12 November | 10:32

What do you get when you cross an elephant with a grape?
|elephant| |grape| sin(theta)

What do you get when you cross an elephant with a mountain climber?
You can't cross an elephant with a mountain climber, a mountain climber's a scalar

posted by Capn 12 November | 11:29

What time is it when an elephant sits on your fence?
Time to get a new fence!

posted by mygothlaundry 12 November | 11:42

What do you get when you cross an elephant with a mountain climber?
You can't cross an elephant with a mountain climber, a mountain climber's a scalar

No, it's Q: how do you cross a rat with a mountain climber? A: You can't - a rat is a vector and a mountain climber is a scalar.

posted by muddgirl 12 November | 13:06

Q: What do you call a young eigensheep?
A: A lamb, duh

I didn't look at all the jokes on the Wolfram page, but did see my FAVE math joke there:

Q: What is a topologist?
A: Someone who cannot distinguish between a
doughnut and a coffee cup

posted by reflecked 12 November | 13:47

My favorite math joke?
What is the square root of 69?
Ate something

Second favorite math joke?
Did you hear about the mathematician with constipation?
He had to work it out with a pencil...

Favorite jesus joke?
why did jesus die on the cross?
He forgot the safe word...

posted by Schyler523 12 November | 16:54

oh lordy, that's a keeper.
agreed. Reminds me of this classic:

Why don't canibal's eat clowns?
Because they taste funny.

posted by Popular Ethics 13 November | 01:47

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