# Is this joke funny? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 25, 2012, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-joke-funny/623026 "2012-05-25T00:53:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![brewha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@brewha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brewha)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2012, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-joke-funny/623026/21 "2012-05-25T17:28:24Z")
First one: pretty funny. Second one: I guess. I’m a math nerd, but I didn’t know that disease carrying insects were called vectors. By the time I had googled it, the funny had worn right off. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2012, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-joke-funny/623026/22 "2012-05-25T17:29:24Z")
I loathe math, but I got both and both merited at least a smile. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2012, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-joke-funny/623026/23 "2012-05-25T17:55:29Z")
The notion of specialized terminology in humor always comes up for me when I watch _Silence of the Lambs_. The psychological evaluation pop quiz thing that Clarice gives to Lecter? Lecter says to her, “Did you really think you could dissect me with such a blunt little tool?” “Instrument” would have been so much better. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2012, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-joke-funny/623026/24 "2012-05-25T18:00:08Z")
I lived with a math major for two years, so I’ve heard those two jokes about a zillion times. If you know the math, they’re funny. If you don’t, they’re just cryptic. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2012, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-joke-funny/623026/25 "2012-05-25T18:07:50Z")
Esoteric jokes are always funny if you get the reference. So, no. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2012, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-joke-funny/623026/26 "2012-05-25T18:10:02Z")
First is only funny as the setup to the second; taken together, kind of funny (but not as funny as the “what’s brown and sticky?” joke). ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2012, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-joke-funny/623026/27 "2012-05-25T18:15:32Z")
Knock Knock ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2012, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-joke-funny/623026/28 "2012-05-25T18:18:34Z")
> [@Enderw24](#): > > Knock Knock Oh, G-d. Ahem. “Who’s there?” ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2012, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-joke-funny/623026/29 "2012-05-25T18:19:36Z")
I eat mop. ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2012, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-joke-funny/623026/30 "2012-05-25T18:22:51Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > mouse elephant sine theta. Needs a verb. And also needs some funny. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2012, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-joke-funny/623026/31 "2012-05-25T18:23:19Z")
One of my favorite math jokes. Two math professors are in a bar. One is lamenting how little math is appreciated and how stupid most people are math wise. The other disagrees. They bicker back and forth. Finally the second prof has to go to the bathroom. He swings past a blonde waitress and tells her " heres five dollars, come over to our table in a minute. I am going to ask you a question. Just answer X squared over 2". She agrees. So, a few minutes later prof two gets back the table. Tells prof one “I wanna make a bet with you. See that blonde over there? I bet even she knows the answer to a simple calculus problem”. “No way! Put me down for twenty” prof one responds. Blonde waitress comes over. Prof two “mam, what is the integral of y=x?” Blonde waitress "x squared over 2 " Prof one is dumbfounded. Prof two happily collects his ill gotten twenty. Blonde waitress gives the gentlemen their beers and quitely says " and plus of course an arbitrary constant C" as she walks away. ---
**Author:** ![Chimi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/73ab20/32.png) [@Chimi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimi)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2012, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-joke-funny/623026/32 "2012-05-25T18:46:13Z")
> [@Enderw24](#): > > I eat mop. Seriously? No one? I gotta throw myself on this grenade? Fine. _sigh_ I eat mop who? ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2012, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-joke-funny/623026/33 "2012-05-25T18:50:28Z")
> [@Chimi](#): > > I eat mop who ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2012, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-joke-funny/623026/34 "2012-05-25T18:55:36Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > I get that it would probably be funny to some people, but I am not in the target audience for the joke. > > Which is not to say it’s a bad joke. One of my favorite jokes is, “How many Sagittarians does it take to change a light bulb? One, and a Virgo to pick up the pieces.” Which probably makes as much sense to most of the posters on this board as the joke in the OP. Possibly fewer. But there may be one or two readers loling right now. As I’m Sagittarian, I WANT to get the joke, but…I don’t. ☹ EXPLAIN!!! Or I will bug you forever. You know how stubbornly single-minded we can be. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2012, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-joke-funny/623026/35 "2012-05-25T18:55:49Z")
that youtube video was very funny. ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2012, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-joke-funny/623026/36 "2012-05-25T18:56:42Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > One of my favorite math jokes. > > Two math professors are in a bar. One is lamenting how little math is appreciated and how stupid most people are math wise. The other disagrees. They bicker back and forth. Finally the second prof has to go to the bathroom. He swings past a blonde waitress and tells her " heres five dollars, come over to our table in a minute. I am going to ask you a question. Just answer X squared over 2". She agrees. > > So, a few minutes later prof two gets back the table. Tells prof one “I wanna make a bet with you. See that blonde over there? I bet even she knows the answer to a simple calculus problem”. “No way! Put me down for twenty” prof one responds. > > Blonde waitress comes over. Prof two “mam, what is the integral of y=x?” > > Blonde waitress "x squared over 2 " > > Prof one is dumbfounded. Prof two happily collects his ill gotten twenty. > > Blonde waitress gives the gentlemen their beers and quitely says " and plus of course an arbitrary constant C" as she walks away. See, this is a math joke that anyone can ‘get’ and appreciate. /thumbsup ---
**Author:** ![MysteryFellow63427](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@MysteryFellow63427](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysteryFellow63427)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2012, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-joke-funny/623026/37 "2012-05-25T19:23:20Z")
> [@Chimi](#): > > I eat mop who? > [@Enderw24](#): > > ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww Lol’ed. Best joke in the thread. Ftr I understood the mountain climber mosquito but failed to grok the OP, which obviously isn’t funny. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2012, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-joke-funny/623026/38 "2012-05-25T19:53:22Z")
> [@Ravenman](#): > > Needs a verb. And also needs some funny. Everyone’s a critic. I asked for it… ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2012, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-joke-funny/623026/39 "2012-05-25T20:54:19Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > I’m a math graduate, but I don’t fit your stereotype, so, y’know, if ignorance of mathematics makes you feel better about yourself, go for it. It doesn’t. I’m actually sadder now, picturing you with an ink-stained shirt pocket. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2012, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-joke-funny/623026/40 "2012-05-25T21:01:21Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > It doesn’t. I’m actually sadder now, picturing you with an ink-stained shirt pocket. I used pencils. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-joke-funny/623026.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-joke-funny/623026.md?page=3)