Funny Definition and 188 Threads

Funny or ouch?? So you come across some modern slapstick clips like this: for instance. You see bloopers, people crashing in various forms into solid objects. What's your honest first reaction? I went for 'ouch'. Can't see any humor into people getting hurt. Thoughts?

Does anyone know of any good Physics jokes/comics that would be good for a physics group's tshirts and care to share? It's ok if they have a sexual innuendo, but these are for an University organization, so if it has a dirty overtone, it has to be subtle/decent. (To give you some sense of what...

Anti Science "friends" and trying to enlighten them. (possibly funny) I know its pointless to even argue with people like this (even more pointless when its on Facebook), but do you guys ever give in and try to school people like this? Sadly a few of my friends decided to stop their education...

Just a thread to post funny pictures you found on the net. I searched but didn't find a thread for this. Hopefully I'm not wrong.

http://lolcode.com/home I figured a few people here will appreciate it as well. :biggrin:

John has been accused of murder and the police have found DNA evidence at the scene. The probability of a DNA match given that a person is innocent is 1/100,000. The probability of a DNA match given that a person is guilty is 1. John lives in a city where there are 100,000 people who could have...

http://static.quickmeme.com/media/social/qm.gif http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/3qe184/ If philosoraptor said it, it must be true...

It is worth reminding ourselves of this funny passage from A Brief History of Time

Homework Statement A funny car accelerates from rest through a measured track distance in time 21 s with the engine operating at a constant power 240 kW. If the track crew can increase the engine power by a differential amount 1.0 W, what is the change in the time required for the run? I...

Here's a question:- Prove that for all positive integers n, [(n+1)/2]^n >= n! And here's a funny proof for it:- Assume to the contrary that, for all positive integers n, [(n+1)/2]^n < n! However, for n=2, (3/2)^2 > 2! Therefore, our assumption must be false. And...

Homework Statement How do I get y'' - yω2 = y'(sinωx + sinhωx) + y(cosωx*ω + coshωx*ω) equal to y'' - yω2 = sinωx + sinhωx I'm baffled. Homework Equations The Attempt at a Solution

Here's a thread to post some funny and sarcastic pictures of politicians and world events. Let's just keep it tasteful and not start any political argument. The pictures are just for fun, so try to laugh even if you disagree with it :smile:

I'm going to post mine here: When you have more than 2 kids, you begin to understand the true meaning of "I don't give a damn". "Wisdom always try to make me a company, but I'm much faster" "Don't be frustrated with your life, you won't make it out alive anyway" "God...please grant...

Any physics invention for making a super catchy and funny charlie chaplin film?

This question is on the radius of a shell, which is: R[shell] = ((Luminosity*time^3)/(density))^1/5 I have been asked to prove this using dimensional analysis, and have broken the quantities down into their basic units, but seem to be getting really funny answers (with most of the powers...

I'm wearing after shave, hair gel, moisturizer and deodorant. Each of these gives off its own odor. Although they smell nice individually, they smell odd when worn together. I wouldn't say they smell bad, but it smells funny. What do I do? I don't want to stop using one of these. Is there any...

do you like funny movies?

[PLAIN]https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/313028_10150383340891940_666206939_8328916_99129355_n.jpg Would this system work, if the air-water isolation problem (water leakage into the air tank) is solved? If it would work, where does the input energy comes from? We obtain...

Some fun with online translators: Original English: Pengwuino doesn't like Justin Bieber. Belarusian : Pengwuino не падабаецца Джасцін Бибер. Back to English : Pengwuino do not like Justin Bieber. Lithuanian : Pengwuino nepatinka Justin Bieber. Back to English : Pengwuino do not like...

This happens occasionally. Never been able to figure out why or how to revert it. It's often varying causes and effects but right now, when I am in Outlook Express on W7, if I press the ? key, I instead get a É. I'm sure it's a keystroke combination that activates some obscure language setting...

I'm trying to look for papers with funny abstracts (in particular, there is one I saw a while ago, I believe it was physics, that had an abstract that only said no which I am trying to find, but I would love to see other funny one as well.)

Homework Statement why is it that when one stands outside a cafe in front of its glass wall he can see his own reflection but not the people inside the cafe, and yet the people inside the cafe can see him from the inside?

Hello all. For some reason or another, I've been thinking about the following space: Take two copies of the square. Identify their edges as you would usually to form a torus, but identify them also to the corresponding edges of the counterpart sqaure (so we have two tori, joined in some...

I had a funny thought when i was vacuuming. I was vacuuming dust around the multy plug and I decided to vacuum inside. Would electricity go in the tube?

I found this picture of Einstein while trolling the web and I thought it was quite funny. Anyone has any funny physics pictures to share as well?

"Funny" Physics Photos? I'm looking for some "funny" physics photos- not simple "unbalanced" logistics photos though. Yes, I have done many google searches on the topic using terms like "funny physics, logistics etc", but I still cannot find many good ones. I'm hoping that those on this site...

Spilling over from chat... post your funny (fictional) textbooks: Complex Variables: A Real Approach Linear Algebra of Quadratic Functions Undefined Quantities: The Definitive Edition

Hey everyone, Doing a little project for school, and want to try bringing more attention to our schools physics program, so part of it is I want to create some funny physics T-shirts. I got a graphics guy, so Just need some ideas. Something funny and creative/unique There are lots out...

Of course there are endless counts of funny phrases of toddlers published on the net and elsewhere, but maybe not all are told. I'd like to share one little conversation my mum had with my son, some 27 years ago. He is 30 now Anyway, I tried to raise my kids in a bit of a contemplative...

Homework Statement Create a funny face using the specified parent functions. Homework Equations Linear Quadratic Cube Square root Absolute value Semicircle The Attempt at a Solution I realized that I can use the square root function as eye brows and maybe a semicircle as a...

So, I was playing on Wolfram Alpha, and I managed to come up with this: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=integral_%28+infinity+*+sqrt%28-1%29+%29%5Epi+e%5E%28ix%29+dx&x=0&y=0 In Tex, I believe this is... \int_{i\infty}^{\pi}e^{i x} dx = i However, I have more than one problem...

A few days ago, my wife saw me standing in a place where I was not. This has happened a few times over the last three years and we're not sure what to make of it. I've documented the occurance noting certain details like; time of day, temperature, events, personal stress levels--just anything I...

Yesterday night, when I was on my bed, one of the funny question came to my mind and I'm posting it here before I forget. Suppose god come to Earth and start making a big hole on the land of India. The length (or depth) of that hole is 12800 km. I mean it starts from India and end to America...

Homework Statement Find the volume between 2 paraboloids. Homework Equations z = 4x^2+8y^2 z= 30-x^2-y^2 The Attempt at a Solution So I switched the variables to polar coordinates. z = 30-r^2 z=4r^2*sin^2(θ)+8r^2*cos^2(θ) Now I want to solve for r. However I get a very...

Hello, I recently got a "joke" email with this problem in it. The student drew an elephant in the middle of the ramp & answered "b" with: No, there is an elephant in the way. It is relevant to my current studies, so I worked it out and would like to know if I am correct. Please see...

a funny question into my mind. If you are completely isolated from all environment, will you become just wave function spreading all over the space (or universe whatever)?

This is so wrong! And just a little bit funny! http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32581670/ns/today-today_pets_and_animals/displaymode/1247/?beginSlide=1" I have to admit, I did chuckle at some of these pix :redface:. Poor, poor doggies.

Found this on the door to a bathroom stall at work. I thought it was interesting to see a literary reference in a graffito. Perhaps "Screwtape" has some other significance to the author other than the book by C.S. Lewis though. Does anyone else have interesting graffiti to share?

In 1969 when Armstrong first landed on the moon, it was the biggest event of our time. It left everyone watching in awe. The moon lander, a machine that looked like a miracle in technology at the time, is nowadays the technical equivalent of something so small and insignificant as a Furby toy...

http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/9471/dfdfikl.png is he a journalist or a ray Specialist?! http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/5733/dfddu.png ? http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/9602/dsdv.png it was horrible ... rest in peace http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/9532/58939930.png...

Thought experiment: a sealed container with water in it, along with a balloon. You are able to control the balloon with a string from the outside somehow, and this string however is still sealing perfectly. No leaks in the system. The balloon is taken down to the very bottom of the container...

What's so funny? what is central core that makes us laugh when we hear a joke? Any scientific and philosophical ideas are welcomed.

So the electrostatic constant k = 9*10^9, but I've also seen it written in my Fundamentals of Phys book (Resnick) and Wikipedia as k = 1/(4*pi*e0). Why is this? Thanks.

This funny:

Despite having done it quite a few times before, I always get a funny feeling about asking people for references. I want to ask two questions (which I believe many people have): 1. How many reference requests does the average faculty get? What is their usual reaction to being asked? 2...

Homework Statement The description of the potential distribution is given in the attached image. The particle arrives from the left with E>V0. write the solutions to the S.E in regions x<o and x between o and a Homework Equations I believe psi(x)= e^ikx+Re^-ikx in x<0 and...

Hi all, my department's having a cookoff and I am wondering if anyone has any cute names for a dish that are really physics-related. So far we have Tesla coiled marshmallows and thomson cookies... any ideas out there? It can be any type of dish, I just need a humorous physics name to match.

This isn't a homework question, just a random question. The other day I hit my head really hard on the ground and ended up getting a concussion. The athletic trainer at my school said that if I would have hit my head on a pad, I would not have received a concussion. Why is this? Besides...

I don't think this has been posted, so funny. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20081006/ts_ynews/ynews_ts57

I don't know if anyone's posted this already, but it was sent to me and it's pretty damn funny: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM