Humor Definition and 38 Threads

Please select up to 3 members who tickle your funny bone the most here at PF in 2024. Oftentimes comedy is the perfect companion to science! This is a popular vote. Polls were created by weighing activity levels in comedic threads and positive reactions. Everyone nominated should feel honored...

All those joke bars to walk into. Ever consider the people already inside? Let's hang out at Infinity Bar. Yes, located between the Adiabatic AC Repair shop and Moe's Many Manifolds ("Put an edge to your Universe!"). Slide into Infinity Bar and join the fun: ----------------> linguist: "...

A friend knowing I have an interest in science sent me this amusing story - hope you find it as funny as me Scientists at CERN in Geneva have announced the discovery of the HEAVIEST element yet known to science. It was discovered in Australia, which is now the leading producer, but other...

I was going to post this in the general discussion sub-forum (like the science jokes thread), but I think it's actually technical enough to be more appropriate here. Today's SMBC (source: http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/the-talk-4)...

Today's Cyanide & Happiness [Source: http://explosm.net/comics/4435/]

When I don't have anything to work on I call up my "friends" to come over and play music...lol Cheers, Billy

Found this abstract while browsing through some papers, and thought it was quite humorous: Endy, Galanie & Smolke. 2015 Complete absence of thebaine biosynthesis under home-brew fermentation conditions. bioRxiv doi:10.1101/024299 Full text freely available at...

I've been developing an artificially intelligent software for a few years now. Its main goal is to have human like conversations with others. I've realized that humor is a very important part of conversation. After doing some research I may have found a definition for it - "something that is...

http://xkcd.com/1642/ I've made a suggestion like this before. The LIGO results are wonderful, but the questions from "out there" sometimes display a level of understanding best dealt with the xkcd.com comic linked above. My opinion only. I've made this suggestion before. With regard to...

The more I think about this, the more mystified I become: What are the origins of humor and laughter? Why do we find anything funny at all? Who or what was the first thing to laugh on Earth and what did they find funny? Can evolution actually explain this strange behavioral...

Homework Statement The deck of the boat is parallel to the dock as you jump from the boat and the direction of your velocity as you jump is 30° above the horizontal. If the boat was stationary when you jumped and 1.5 m away from the dock, what is the horizontal speed of the boat (in m/s) after...

Hi all, what sort of physics/mathematics related humor do you enjoy? Be it comics, TV shows, humorous books, music... I personally like the ''usual'' stuff, Tom Lehrer, The Big Bang Theory (though a bit hit-and-miss), XKCD, SMBC. But I'd love to hear any recommendations!

You probably have to be Scottish to get this one:

Is anyone aware of a book that tackles humor as a subject? The best one I could find is humor's role in forming persuasive arguments (http://www.pearsonhighered.com/educator/academic/product/0,3110,0321434900,00.html). I'm just looking for one that might tackle it on a philosophical...

Could someone explain the humor in "Haddocks Eyes" - (for Alice in Wonderland fans)? Hello , I was recently reminded of a section of 'Through The Looking Glass' - the one about Haddock's Eyes because of a post here at PF :- I will post the relevant material :- Well , I understood the humor...

Unintended?? humor? An exchange from SR forum (couldn't respond without getting in trouble): ---------------------- Re: Levi-Civita symbol Originally Posted by clem View Post A pseudotensor has the determinant of the LT included in its transformation. This gives a minus sign...

Reminds me of Monty Python, see if you http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ssXJtzFOjA"... from the BBC... that explains it... Rhody... :biggrin: P.S. Fuzzy, Turbo, you will like this... the moon walking bird just kills me...

This appeared this week: Backward Causation in Complex Action Model --- Superdeterminism and Transactional Interpretations, Holger B. Nielsen, Masao Ninomiya (Submitted on 3 Aug 2010) "It is shown that the transactional interpretation of quantum mechanics being referred back to...

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xk6mr_kramer-gets-a-kidney-stone" With the theme "Dark Humor" the spirit of this thread, the challenge is to get all of us PF'rs to laugh even harder. Post up... I you ever have had kidney stones, you will "get it" for sure... Rhody...:devil: :biggrin:

Use with good judgement. :smile: http://www.obamacondoms.com/

The top line from the "Search Tag Cloud" black holes bleeding carl sagan Ok, so I'm easily amused :biggrin:

(can't post full links yet) uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Cat-Toast_Device

Working on some sci-fi and exploring the theory that there is redundancy in the human body, i.e., we could function with fewer cells, then fewer amounts of elements, and therefore less matter. Could we be “fine-tuned” and exist as a smaller version of ourself?

I don't know of these are all genuinely from kids, but they were funny. A few look like some of my old test answers. hmmm.. from: http://www.ariel.com.au/jokes/Kid_Science.html And those fifth graders think they are so smart!:-p:smile:

Really funny and stupid articles, good humor though: http://www.theonion.com/content/opinion/im_prepared_to_do_anything_to" http://www.theonion.com/content/node/53191"

Usually comic strips avoid anything that requires math or science. http://www.gocomics.com/foxtrot/ This url will work only today, November 8, 2006 until midnight EST. Otherwise you'll have to use the "previous" selection and find Nov 8.

With great british bulldog spirt i have surfed the web without rest to find this site, now there will be no excuse for misunderstanding. http://www.effingpot.com/house.shtml Now maybe one of you of the US of A will reciprocate and perchance we britts will no what in the blue blazes you are...

What does it mean? Where did it come from? What is to be humorous?

Who says astrophysicists don't have a sense of humor? This probably freed up a few tenured positions: http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0505330 For exploring the physics behind the accelerating universe a crucial question is how much we can learn about the dynamics through next generation...

I think the bird that has been most neglected as subject matter for jokes is the seagull. I've watched them alot, and they're just asking for it. However, no comedians have stepped up to the plate. What other thing or subject do you feel has been mysteriously missed by humorists?

I have just discovered how to stop worrying! Here it goes (Unicode): Definition. Let H be the set of all humans, A the set of all actions, and W ⊂A be the set of all worries. A person p ∈ H is said to be worrying if and only if p's set of choices C = {f(p)} (where f(p) ∈ A) either has...

Does anyone know any laser jokes? I'm doing a short presentation on laser diodes and thought it might be fun to include a refreshing page of jokes near the end. I found a few on Google, but none were very funny.

Everyone list your physics jokes here. I have a few ones. In the early 1900's, name foreigners came to america, and they had bad english skills, espeicaly with tense and past tense. So, one day, a german who just entered the country lost track of the time, as he needed to catch a train ...

This is very appropriate for PF: link to Tom Tomorrow: THIS MODERN WORLD ---> http://www.workingforchange.com/comic.cfm?itemid=17231 Quart

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/presaddress2.shtml

A wide selection of science humor. http://www.xs4all.nl/~jcdverha/scijokes/