Math jokes have an elemental role in the history of the internet. From the earliest Usenet threads to the techiest subreddits, geeky math jokes — some implicit swipes at less-pure disciplines, other puns or plays on words of different concepts — have been a major part of the modern history of math. What's more, these japes also have the effect of making those who didn't get the joke to look into what makes it funny, teaching people some of the more obscure concepts. Here are just a few of the best ones. Where necessary, we'll do the unthinkable and the tacky and explain the joke.
1. Three statisticians go out hunting together. After a while they spot a solitary rabbit. The first statistician takes aim and overshoots. The second aims and undershoots. The third shouts out "We got him!"
2. There was a statistician that drowned crossing a river... It was 3 feet deep on average.
Ashley these are actually pretty funny, like I kind of get them. :D
ReplyDeleteI am incredibly confused as to what the first joke is saying. For the second joke I think I get it! Pretty funny. I think I chuckled
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