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Archive for November 5th, 2007

Self-reference is a theme not only in logic (as in “This sentence is false”, Gödel’s theorem) but in jokes. A certain kind of joke (appealing especially to males?) depends on it.

Some old classics

• I’m the humblest person I know.
• I used to think I was indecisive, but now I’m not so sure.
• The workshop on procrastination has been cancelled, as no-one got around to enrolling.
• Anyone who visits a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.

• We never make misteaks.
• 87.5% of all statistics are made up.
• Here, take this placebo.
• The technical term for “being unable to remember the word you want” is, uh …

• There are three types of people in the world: those who can count and those who can’t.
• The two rules for success are:
  1. Never tell them everything you know.

• There are 10 types of people: those who understand binary and those who don’t.
• We Poms hate being called whingers.
• Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be.
• There should be a rule that we don’t talk about politics.
• I’m trying to be less self-deprecating, but I really suck at it. (more…)
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