# Nerdy, Geeky Jokes **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 25, 2022, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerdy-geeky-jokes/975532 "2022-11-25T15:23:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2022, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerdy-geeky-jokes/975532/201 "2022-12-26T22:09:28Z")
You jogged my memory. Simple one-question nerdy/geeky test: How many syllables in the word “coax”? ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2022, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerdy-geeky-jokes/975532/202 "2022-12-26T22:34:56Z")
True Story: At the Cornell Electron Storage Ring laboratory, one level’s doors are all labeled “Closed to causal visitors”. ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2022, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerdy-geeky-jokes/975532/203 "2022-12-26T22:35:55Z")
Bumper sticker: Conserve Energy: Commute with a Hamiltonian. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2022, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerdy-geeky-jokes/975532/204 "2022-12-27T00:50:34Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > Ask her to pronounce “unionized”. Worse, ask her what indefinite article you use in front of “unionized”. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2022, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerdy-geeky-jokes/975532/205 "2022-12-27T16:08:29Z")
And you can tell the difference between a mathematician, a physicist, and a computer scientist by asking which of printf, dirlichet, or dirac are functions. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2022, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerdy-geeky-jokes/975532/206 "2022-12-28T12:09:38Z")
> [@Karen\_Lingel](#): > > True Story: At the Cornell Electron Storage Ring laboratory, one level’s doors are all labeled “Closed to causal visitors”. John Conner was conceived by causal sex. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2022, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerdy-geeky-jokes/975532/207 "2022-12-28T23:50:10Z")
Residents of Halifax are called Haligonians [true this]. There are five varieties of Haligonians There are the Fluoronains who are very reactive and cannot bear to be left alone. Second are the somewhat less reactive Chloronians. Then come the very fluid Bromonians, followed by the very solid citizens the Iodonians. The fifth variety are the extremely rare Astitonians. Part of their rarity is that they don’t survive birth very long, averaging no more than 8 hours. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2022, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerdy-geeky-jokes/975532/208 "2022-12-28T23:54:40Z")
Rumors have it that some folks have visited Halifax from Tennessee, but if so, they never stayed very long. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2022, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerdy-geeky-jokes/975532/209 "2022-12-29T19:03:39Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > How can you tell the difference between an auto worker and a physicist? > > Ask her to pronounce “unionized”. Oh, how I wish we had “upvote”! ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2022, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerdy-geeky-jokes/975532/210 "2022-12-29T19:10:21Z")
I can’t quite get my slogan together, but there’s got to be some kind of joke about picking the English professor out of the faculty meeting (or whatever) by asking whether “dour” rhymes with “four,” or “sour.” And nerdy, geeky jokes can include the ones from outside the physics dept., right? ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2022, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerdy-geeky-jokes/975532/211 "2022-12-29T19:11:45Z")
Of course. For example, what do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question? ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2022, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerdy-geeky-jokes/975532/212 "2022-12-29T19:22:20Z")
An anteater walks into a coffee bar, where, of course, all the workers, have degrees in English. “I’d like a cinnamon latte,” he said, “where the cream balances the astringency of the dark roasted coffee beans and the grated spice adds a piquant warmth, which allows one to savor the beverage.” “That’s some long clause you have,” said the barista. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2022, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerdy-geeky-jokes/975532/213 "2022-12-29T19:22:47Z")
😆 Exaxctly ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2022, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerdy-geeky-jokes/975532/214 "2022-12-29T19:48:28Z")
Eh, it would be perfectly cromulent in Latin. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2022, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerdy-geeky-jokes/975532/215 "2022-12-29T19:52:19Z")
…How so? Latin lacks the clause/claws pun. ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2022, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerdy-geeky-jokes/975532/216 "2022-12-29T22:12:03Z")
Well, in Latin _incisio_ and _incisum_ can mean “clause”, while _incisor_ means “tooth”, so you could possibly make a lame pun out of it, maybe with a viper or something instead of an anteater. ---
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2022, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerdy-geeky-jokes/975532/217 "2022-12-30T21:05:53Z")
In 1st year Latin we were doing Latin to English translations and I came across “forte” which was defined as “strong, well”. Which I read as “a strong well” and worked that into what I thought was a plausible sentence. It took the teacher awhile to figure out what I had done. ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2022, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerdy-geeky-jokes/975532/218 "2022-12-31T02:03:40Z")
_Puella est lata_ or, was that _laeta_? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2022, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerdy-geeky-jokes/975532/219 "2022-12-31T02:45:21Z")
The girl is milky coffee? ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2022, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerdy-geeky-jokes/975532/220 "2022-12-31T23:01:33Z")
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