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What's the Best Geek Joke You Know?

Posted by Cliff on from the limericks-and-jests-and-jokes-oh-my dept.

super_ogg writes "To break some of the office blues, I decided to tell the worst geek joke I know: 'Why did the Comp. Engineer get X-mas and Halloween mixed up? A: Because Oct(31) == Dec(25)!' Some groaned, some laughed, but only a geek could understand it. I was wondering what are some of the best/worst geek jokes people have out there for the Slashdot community?"

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  1. A mathematician and an engineer.... by Halvard · · Score: 4, Interesting
    .... are lost in the desert. They've been wandering for days, are horribly sunburned and are out of water.

    All of a sudden, they stumble upon Archemides with a canteen full of water! Archemides says "One of you can have this canteen and you'll live, but only if you walk half way to it, stop, walk half way to it, etc., etc.

    The mathematic, in anquish, lays his head in his arm and start to cry. "It can't be done" he rages.

    The engineer looks at the mathematician in disgust, shrugs his shoulders, walks half way, stops, walks half way, stop, etc., etc. Finally he stops next to it, leans over, picks up the canteen and drinks.

    Archemides and the mathematician both are in shock. Archemides exclaims "but how did you do that -- it's impossible!"

    Again, the engineer shrugs. "I got close enough for practical purposes!"

  2. As long as we're doing math jokes by tchuladdiass · · Score: 4, Interesting

    How about a math lymric?
    (12 + 144 + 20 + 3 * 4 ^ .5) / 7 + 5 * 11 == 9 ^ 2 + 0

    Translated:
    A dozen, a gross, and a score, plus three times the square root of four, divided by 7, plus 5 times 11, is nine squared, and not a bit more.

  3. Re:Well,,, by spongeboy · · Score: 4, Interesting

    A Mathematician, a Biologist and a Physicist are sitting in a street cafe watching people going in and coming out of the house on the other side of the street. First they see two people going into the house. Time passes. After a while they notice three persons coming out of the house. The Physicist: "The measurement wasn't accurate.". The Biologist: "They have reproduced". The Mathematician: "If now exactly one person enters the house then it will be empty again."