More Jokes

Which reminds me of a two-panel cartoon I saw in a magazine years ago when I was a kid.

In the first panel, a guy is climbing the stairs to board a plane when he sees an acquaintance in the line behind him and yells “Hi, Jack!”

In the second panel, he is in handcuffs, being led away by security guards.

I remember er seeing that one, years (decades) ago.

The studio’s announced that Irish actress Jessie Buckley will be the new 007.

April Fool!


What do you call a social scientist who says sorry to people from disadvantaged cultures?

An anthroapologist.


My Dad’s dying wish was to have his family around him.

I can’t help thinking he would have been better off with more oxygen.

  • Jimmy Carr

If I had a nickel every time I was confused…

I’d be like, where do all these nickels keep coming from?


No matter how much you push the envelope…

It will always be stationery.

They eliminated the entire first round??

I had a friend tell me this new restaurant in town makes a mean burger but when I tried it I was very underwhelmed. Then I remembered that my friend is a statistician.

Players kept disappearing into non-Euclidean angles on the court.

True story: Two mathematicians boarding a plane were discussing something called the Killing form (after Wilhelm Killing) that has a real role in the theory of Lie algebras. And they got seriously questioned about it. And can you imagine how Proxmire freaked when he found a research grant in the theory of Lie algebras (Sophus Lie)?

And of course, Poynting vectors have a really redundant name.

Don’t name your seeing eye dog “Shotgun”.

Or “I am hijacking this plane”.

Astronaut 1: I can’t find any milk for my coffee.

Astronaut 2: In space, no one can. Here, use cream.

We’re whalers on the moon,
We carry a harpoon,
For they ain’t no whales
So we tell tall tales
And sing our whaling tune.

The police investigating the theft of 12 tons of KitKat are exhausted.

They need a break.


What do you get when you cross Jesus with two criminals?

Good Friday.


I’m going to enter a Punster Poetry Contest.

I think I stanza good chance.


M. C. Escher had a very tough childhood…

Not only did he have to walk to and from school, but it was uphill both ways.


I say, I say, what do you call an aquamarine aquatic mammal that expresses genuine enthusiasm for gelatinous foods?

A teal seal that feels real zeal for congealed meals.

A city boy cousin at his relative’s farm tried to help out with the milking in the morning, but went to the bull’s enclosure instead of the cow’s. His cousin intended to correct his mistake when he came back, but he only returned at sunset looking exhausted.

“That was harder than I thought,” he said; “it took me all day to fill the bucket.”

I think that one works better without the captions.

Definitely didn’t need the second caption, but I think the first one makes the joke.

Why is World Autism Day after April Fools’ Day?

Because it takes longer for them to get the joke.


I survived a fall without a parachute.

I also survived a spring, a summer and a winter.


Why was the broom late for school?

It over-swept.


Our computers went down at the office today, so we had to do everything manually.

It took me fifteen minutes to shuffle the cards for Solitaire.


Putin has boasted that Russia is planning to build a base on the moon

The idea is that astronauts will live there permanently. When they were asked if they really wanted to spend the rest of their lives in a barren, lifeless, empty landscape, the Russians said…

“No. That’s why we want to go to the moon.”

Putin has boasted that Russia is planning a manned flight to the Sun.

“Won’t it be too hot”?

“No - we’ll be travelling at night.”