On 4/12/2025 at 3:38 PM, toucana said:

Speaking of which..

Oh god

We need to teach this kind of sigma in schools

8 minutes ago, TheVat said:

Mrs Tilly likes fur coats but not fur

Classic New Yorker cartoons don't really need a comment, thanks.

Just now, TheVat said:

Classic New Yorker cartoons don't really need a comment, thanks.

Ah ok, is it possible to delete mine?

Its just awful the twisted society we lie in. Donate one kidney your a hero, donate 6 and they lock you up SHEESH.

This is a joke for clarification

A woman walked into a pet shop and was instantly drawn to a large, colorful parrot perched in a cage with a sign that read: “Parrot – £50.”

Surprised by the low price, she asked the store owner, “Why is this beautiful parrot so cheap?”

The owner hesitated, then said, “Well… I should be upfront. This parrot used to live in a brothel. He’s perfectly healthy and intelligent—but his language can be… let’s just say, colorful.”

The woman paused, then shrugged. “I’ve heard worse. I’ll take him.”

She brought the parrot home and placed the cage in her living room. Curious, she waited to see what it would say.

The bird looked around its new surroundings, nodded, and said,

“New house, new madam.”

The woman blinked, caught off guard—but chuckled. “Okay… not too bad.”

A few hours later, her two teenage daughters came home from school. The parrot perked up and said,

“New house, new madam, new girls.”

The daughters looked at their mom, wide-eyed. The woman gave an awkward smile… then all three burst out laughing.

Just then, the husband walked through the front door, setting down his briefcase.

The parrot glanced at him and chirped,

“Hi Keith.”

Perfect. Might be what they call a universal joke - funny in all times and places. (A common example of the UJ is the one with the hunters and the 911 call, which I suspect everyone has heard - they did some cross-cultural study where that joke had the broadest positive reception - String's parrot joke would be a close competitor I would wager)

There is a fine line between a numerator and a denominator.

Only a fraction can make sense of this.

36 minutes ago, joigus said:

There is a fine line between a numerator and a denominator.

Only a fraction can make sense of this.

You’re trying to divide us

25 minutes ago, swansont said:

You’re trying to divide us

Let's not be irrational.

1 hour ago, swansont said:

You’re trying to divide us

I am.

35 minutes ago, geordief said:

Let's not be irrational.

I wish I were.

Before my dentist started drilling he told me it would be rational to use a number.

2 hours ago, swansont said:

You’re trying to divide us

He asked me for graph paper earlier. I think @joigus is plotting something.

44 minutes ago, Phi for All said:

He asked me for graph paper earlier. I think @joigus is plotting something.

Am I missing something ?

The missing monkey finally showed up...

The sum of the other three... Talk to no one, hear no one, see no one.

How can you tell a plumber from a chemist? Ask them to pronounce the word "unionized".

Or how to tell a balloonist from a baseball pitcher - ask them to read the phrase "wind up."

Why doesn't France have any painkillers?

Because Paracetamol

RIP Tom Lehrer, one of my favorite songwriter satirists.

https://apnews.com/article/tom-lehrer-son-satirist-mathematician-dies-9caa7ee01faf4fbfb793d7ba984c179d

Gather 'round while I sing you of Wernher von Braun

A man whose allegiance

Is ruled by expedience

Call him a Nazi, he won't even frown

"Nazi, Schmazi!" says Wernher von Braun.

Don't say that he's hypocritical

Say rather that he's apolitical

"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?

That's not my department!" says Wernher von Braun.

Some have harsh words for this man of renown

But some think our attitude

Should be one of gratitude

_Like the widows and cripples in old London town

Who owe their large pensions to Wernher von Braun.

You too may be a big hero

Once you've learned to count backwards to zero

"In German, oder Englisch, I know how to count down

Und I'm learning Chinese!" says Wernher von Braun.

49 minutes ago, TheVat said:

RIP Tom Lehrer, one of my favorite songwriter satirists.

My favorite line of his was from The MLF Lullaby:

Once all the Germans were warlike and mean.

But that couldn't happen again.

We taught them a lesson in 1918,

and they've hardly bothered us since then!

17 hours ago, Phi for All said:

My favorite line of his was from The MLF Lullaby:

So many quotable lines from Lehrer. He was a musical theater buff, and his work showed it, with whimsical rhyming and often mordant wit that followed in the tradition of such as Gilbert and Sullivan, YP Harburg, and Cole Porter.

AFAICT, he is the only human to pen a line which rhymed frontally, Brinkley and Hunt-a-ley, and contrapuntally.

2 minutes ago, TheVat said:

AFAICT, he is the only human to pen a line which rhymed frontally, Brinkley and Hunt-a-ley, and contrapuntally.

And it didn’t always rhyme. (excuse me, rhyne)