Hey boys and girl..
I mean, just boys. LOL INTERNET! Anyway, in an effort to meet you halfway, I have found a topic we can all relate to: Bad Jokes. I recently have been accosted by a terrible joke thats been making its rounds in several Mathmatician circles. I believe it was supposed to serve as an analogy for a type of logical fallacy, the "Gamblers Fallacy".

It managed to somewhat successfully explain the fallacy, but it failed to be funny (a prerequesite for a good joke).
The *joke goes something like this:

[quote]When flying on an airplane, a man decides to always bring a bomb with him. "The chances of an airplane having a bomb on it are very small," he reasons, "and certainly the chances of having two are almost none!"[quote] (note to self: build pseudo-html parser for this)

This is the type of joke you should expect to hear at a mathmatician's cocktail party. I can imagine a pretty accurate scene: After finishing his joke in a stale, monotone voice, he'd look at you intently, waiting for you to burst out laughing. While you're sitting there for a moment, repeating word after agonizing word of the joke in your head, trying to discover a hidden meaning, or pun, he just gives you this condescending expression, replete with pity. You feign a chuckle as to avoid making him feel uncomfortable for releasing such a terrible joke. He'll instantly detect your deception (attributed to years of faux pas on his part), and in an effort to appease you, he'll ask, in a nasel voice, if you like "fart jokes", to which you should promptly smash his head against a wall. Jerk.

Anyway, another terrible joke was one told to me in the http://caltrops.com forum. It was one of those hallariously offbeat combinations: missionary and a feminist. Basically it boils down to the missionary telling the feminist that jesus is his wingman. The woman's role as a feminst is pretty fucking irrelevent, unless you're used to deciphering the likes of James Joyce, then layers of this abysmal joke unpeel like a spoiled artichoke.

Whoa, this is A+ material. tell this to that mathmatician in order to provide him with same uncomfortable silence his joke gave us. Since the mathmatician probably never went on a date with, let alone talked to, a girl, he'll probably turn beat red or puke.

If you want to see something even worse, tell that Mathmatician joke about probability to the Caltrops forum goers. You'll probably become the most popular guy on the forum because you'll be catering to thier pretentious egos with your sophisticated wit. Expect alot of PMs asking why the jokes funny.

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