A test of wit, should you choose to accept it!

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So, I got spammed with a list of high-end jokes. Thus, I propose a challenge: smarty pants test; out of eleven.

Which of these do you get/know off the bat, and do they make you laugh?

1. What do you get if you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
2. Schrödinger's cat walks into a bar. And doesn’t.
3. I tried walking up a hill without a watch but had neither the time nor the inclination.
4. What's the difference between ignorance and apathy? I don't know and I don't care.
5. What do you get when you cross an octopus with a cow? A reprimand from the Scientific Integrity and Professional Ethics Committee and immediate withdrawal of your grant funding.
6. Your mum is so mean, she has no standard deviation.
7. A German asks for a martini. "Dry?" says the bartender. "Nein, just one."
8. Two women walk into a bar and discuss the Bechdel test.
9. Pavlov is sitting at a bar, when all of the sudden the phone rings. Pavlov gasps, "Oh no, I forgot to feed the dogs".
10. How many Marxists does it take to screw in a lightbulb? None, the lightbulb contains the seeds of its own revolution.
11. I have kleptomania, but when it gets bad, I take something for it.

The rules:
  • Read the list
  • Laugh if you can
  • Think of your answers/reasoning
  • Look up the answers (where not given in the original)
  • Grade your smarty pants test
  • Don't give away the chase!

Now, copy the list, and give all the wrong responses you can think of -- whatever jumps into your head first, and takes the Michael out of the jokes themselves.

Scores
0-2 : Shameful display
3-6 : Sanity -- almost assured
7-10 : A gentleman and a scholar
11 : God's own brain cell

My result: score -- 9/11; rofl-score -- 6/11.

My intentionally wrong answers are in the spoiler.

  1. What do you get if you cross a joke with a rhetorical question? -- A riot.
  2. Schrödinger's cat walks into a bar. And doesn’t. -- Physicists with pets are banned from the premises.
  3. I tried walking up a hill without a watch but had neither the time nor the inclination. -- Get off your backside.
  4. What's the difference between ignorance and apathy? I don't know and I don't care. -- Seek professional help.
  5. What do you get when you cross an octopus with a cow? A reprimand from the Scientific Integrity and Professional Ethics Committee and immediate withdrawal of your grant funding. -- I thought something smelled fishy.
  6. Your mum is so mean, she has no standard deviation. -- She needs to loosen up.
  7. A German asks for a martini. "Dry?" says the bartender. "Nein, just one." -- You have a shocking taste in music.
  8. Two women walk into a bar and discuss the Bechdel test. -- Read more fiction.
  9. Pavlov is sitting at a bar, when all of the sudden the phone rings. Pavlov gasps, "Oh no, I forgot to feed the dogs". -- Call the RSPCA.
  10. How many Marxists does it take to screw in a lightbulb? None, the lightbulb contains the seeds of its own revolution. -- Sanction! See me in two weeks with your job search history.
  11. I have kleptomania, but when it gets bad, I take something for it. -- Said the suicide note *grabs coat*.

GD -- you know what to do!
 
I think the internet took the bite out of them somewhat over the years. But unsuspecting victims players can still be got. :) I answered the first one with 'recursion', lol; not technically wrong, but nil pois for not being specific. :o
 

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*alarm level raised*
 
To be fair I only knew that because of reading a feminist film review someone posted on here a few weeks ago. Not really something you'd ever be taught in school nor something you'd likely read outside of certain websites.

Iirc it's along the lines of "if two women are alone will they talk about something other than a man".

Can anyone spoiler the answer to number 1?

I wasn't satisfied with that one myself. The answer is apparently the question itself. Grrr. :p

Yep, good ol' Bechdel: grab a work of fiction at random where at least two women have a dialogue, are they talking about a man? It does have an annoyingly high hit rate!
 
I wasn't certain if it didn't actually have an answer or I was missing the point of rhetorical in this context :D. 11/11 then yay!

It is true. Also tends to have a high hit rate in every day life :D (I think that says more about my chosen female friends than anything else).

Yeah, 1's meant to be a total troll by design. But more importantly, I dare you to submit your modified Bechdel hypothesis to the pits of Mumsnet! :cool:
 
Escalation, at last!

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Yes, yes, I can feel the dark side rising! Sling your mud, release your bile! Let the comedy sparks fly from your fingers!

Seen it before and I'm crying... :p
Yeah, my friends have a penchant for cycling Indy spam. But considering its effect, I should probably contemplate a career in reverse psychology. :p


Points for doing it right.

Got them all bar #8. None of them were actually funny however.

At least you've got something to cerebrate. :)

What an absolute riot you must be in the pub......

Sadly, I can't go. :( I'm barred from most public venues for incitement to riot and grievous prosody harm. :eek::o

Oh, how we would laugh.

My hobbies are Countdown and University Challenge, and how'd you do? :p

Two men walk into a bar, the first asks for a glass of H2O. The second says "That sounds good, I'll have a glass of H2O too". The second man died.

Two blood cells meet and fall in love, but alas, it was all in vein.

I tried to remember some other good science jokes, but they're Argon.

Ho, ho! A man of science -- at last! ... Now if we could just add genius. :)

Love me some hydrogen peroxide in the morning.

do they allow that?

Yes, certainly, just hand in your penis, purse and privilege at the door. Yep, most are lovely people.
 
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I vote ban the OP for inducing dangerous levels of cringe with his lack of charisma and wit. This is the least funny thread I'll ever post in.

I said it was a test of wit, didn't I? ;) But I guess you didn't have the wit enough to realize the only way was out. :p

A test of wits? You were half right.

See, you're catching on pretty quick. The most creative slaughter of the jokes gets the biscuits. :) If like Judgeneo, you have more fuel for the fire -- feel free to add it!
 
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Sort of sniggered at a few. But others were a bit try-hard :p

Then academia is not for you, sir. :p

Seriously, these are perfect if you know a group of very polite people.

Take them out, deploy jokes, and observe the pain, the confusion and the billowing laughter out of the sheer sense of maintaining a supporting air of social grace to one's fellows, and the almost existential realisation that it is all for naught and a straight face is the only thing which may keep your sanity intact. Every time they send you a card of any sort, they'll remember, oh how they will indeed! :)
 
Found all of them hilarious except for #3 and #11. Number #2 is okay, but predictable.

EDIT: Well, having read the rest of the thread, seems I'm in the minority. I thought they were ace. Maybe you're pitching these at the wrong level. Let me try:

*Knock knock*
Who's there?
"poo"
"poo who?"
"why not check your letterbox and find out?"

Am I doing this right?

Glorious! Your bold attempt earns you a set of introductory topology jokes.

#1
A rabbi, a priest and an automorphism walk into a bar...

Rabbi: "We should chat one-to-one."
Priest: "We can't! I think he's onto us!"

Automorphism smiles quietly.

#2
Why did the chicken cross the Mobius strip? To get to the same side! *badum-tish*

#3
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Won't lie I avoided everything to do with that.

It made gaming interestingly awkward for a while. The Twitch-streamer chat wars were magical! Of course, I blame Americans for everything. :D

Got about half of them, none were that funny.

Reminds me of Stuart Lee.

A few of the subjectivelly, if you don't know them in advance, off ones remind me of Ricky Gervais too.

I also understood all of them apart from the reference to the Bechdel test, but I'm not sad about having a wide range of knowledge. I also found most of them amusing, but that's down to perception of humour which is of course highly subjective.

So I looked up the Bechdel test. I did know about the test itself, I'd just forgotten the name of it.

True, true. :) My friends use things like that to test whether I'm human or not. I succeed... occasionally!:o
 
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