Correction. I meant the SAME one
-----Original Message-----
From: Brown, Martin (NCI)
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 2:22 PM
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Subject: [PEN-L:9755] RE: Re: humor
How many quantum mechanics does it take to screw in the light bulb?
One to screw it in at a probability of 95% and one to not screw it in at a
probability of 5%.
-----Original Message-----
From: J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 1:40 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PEN-L:9749] Re: humor
How many Madisonians does it take to screw in
a light bulb?
Answer: Three. One to screw in the light bulb,
one to order the morning buns, and one to reminisce
about the sixties.
How many Californians does it take to screw in
a light bulb?
Answer: Five. One to screw in the light bulb and
four to share the experience.
and my all time fave
How many Zen Buddhists does it take to screw in a
light bulb?
Answer: Two. One to screw in the light bulb and one
NOT to screw in the light bulb.
Barkley Rosser
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Devine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 11:18 AM
Subject: [PEN-L:9734] humor
> [was: Re: [PEN-L:9723] RE: Re: RE: Re: A Fair Deal?]
>
> David S. wrote:
> >Michael --
> >
> >I am not surprised at all that you don't find P.J. O'Rourke funny. You
> >don't strike me as a Republican Party Reptile. What about Dave Barry --
> >another semi-libertarian?
>
> Dave Barry is very funny (at least to me), as is Scott "Dilbert" Adams.
But
> I notice that these guys have been shifting to the left.
>
> ---------------
>
> Today's (3/29/01) Dilbert --
>
> frame# 1. TV says to Dilbert: "Buy your electricity from the Dogbert Power
> Company."
>
> frame# 2. Dogbert saying to the TV camera: "We generate all of our power
> with the help of California environmentalists."
>
> frame# 3. Workers at power plant: "These are getting harder to find
> lately." (carrying an environmentalist, bound & gagged, to be stuffed in
> the furnace.)
>
> -----------------
>
> I can't cite evidence about Dave Barry.
>
> >In fact, do Lefties have a sense of humor? Or do you have to wait until
> >the revolution comes before you are permitted to smile?
>
> (BTW, not all leftists are revolutionaries, as should be obvious from
pen-l.)
>
> My experience is that people who lack a sense of humor are distributed
> randomly across the political spectra. The sort who are typically
humorless
> are called "politically correct," a group that is also randomly
distributed
> in this way. Listen to some of the anti-abortion folks some time.
> Bureaucrats of all types fit this category.
>
> Leftists strive to keep their jokes from being at the expense of those who
> have been getting the short end of the societal stick for generations,
> which sometimes cramps their style. (However, it does encourage the
> practice of the highest form of humor, i.e., plays on words.) This is
> sometimes encouraged by the defensive posture encouraged by being a small
> minority of the population. But if you can find a copy, look at THE BIG
RED
> JOKE BOOK (Pluto Press, 1980s?) some time. It's got a lot of great jokes,
> often at the expense of bureaucrats.
>
> Some of the best jokes come from anarchists (on the left) and libertarians
> (on the right). This is probably because these folks believe in breaking
> down societal barriers (like Lenny Bruce). But sometimes they end up
> dwelling on being obnoxious, like P.J. O'Rourke, who ends up being funny
> only to those who enjoy hate and right-wing resentment. Bill Maher has
> tendencies of this sort.
>
> Q: How many post-modernists does it take to screw in a light bulb?
>
> A: none -- that would end up replicating the totalizing modernist vision
> perpetrated by the Enlightenment.
>
> Q: How many romantic conservatives does it take to screw in a light bulb?
>
> A: none -- that would lead to the Enlightenment-inspired destruction of
the
> traditions that hold society together.
>
> Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
>
>
