# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2022, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerdy-geeky-jokes/975532/41 "2022-11-26T18:15:08Z")
> [@Nyvaak](#): > > Q: What do you get when you cross a physicist with a gorilla? > > A: The magnitude of the physicist times the magnitude of the gorilla times the sine of the angle between them. Unless I’m missing something, that’s the dot product, not the cross product. Or would be, if it were _cosine_ of the angle between them. Maybe something like: “A 3x3 matrix of products of the gorilla’s and the physicist’s respective orthogonal components”. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2022, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerdy-geeky-jokes/975532/42 "2022-11-26T18:21:52Z")
> [@F.U.Shakespeare](#): > > Unless I’m missing something, that’s the dot product, not the cross product. Or would be, if it were _cosine_ of the angle between them. Nah, it’s the _magnitude_ of the cross product. ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2022, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerdy-geeky-jokes/975532/43 "2022-11-26T18:23:08Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > Nah, it’s the _magnitude_ of the cross product. Ah, thanks. Must read for comprehension. Very good, by the way. ---
**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:** [November 26, 2022, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerdy-geeky-jokes/975532/44 "2022-11-26T18:23:28Z")
You could also say “The magnitude of the physicist times the magnitude of the gorilla times the sine of the angle between them, orthogonal to both the physicist and the gorilla as specified by the right-hand rule”. A physicist is walking down the street downtown, when he sees someone standing on the ledge of a skyscraper above him. He shouts up “Don’t jump! You have so much potential!” ---
**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:** [November 26, 2022, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerdy-geeky-jokes/975532/45 "2022-11-26T18:24:47Z")
An engineer, a physicist and a mathematician are on a plane flying over Kansas. Looking out the window, they see a black sheep in a field below them. The engineer says, “Look, the sheep in Kansas are black!” The physicist says, “That’s an unwarranted conclusion. All we can say is that _some_ sheep in Kansas are black.” The mathematician says, “No, what we can says is there is at least one sheep in Kansas that is black … on top.” ---
**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:** [November 26, 2022, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerdy-geeky-jokes/975532/46 "2022-11-26T18:24:55Z")
Eating too much cake is different than eating too much pie. Eating too much cake is the sin of gluttony. But the sin of pie is always zero. ---
**Author:** ![janis\_and\_c0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janis_and_c0/32/21_2.png) [@janis\_and\_c0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janis_and_c0)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2022, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerdy-geeky-jokes/975532/47 "2022-11-26T18:40:32Z")
The Roman holds up two fingers and says “Five beers, please.” ---
**Author:** ![Blu3b1rd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blu3b1rd/32/12689_2.png) [@Blu3b1rd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blu3b1rd)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2022, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerdy-geeky-jokes/975532/48 "2022-11-26T19:02:51Z")
Niiiiiiice!!! 😂 ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2022, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerdy-geeky-jokes/975532/49 "2022-11-26T19:11:01Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > I heard this one with a tsetse fly and a mountain climber. You left out the modified punchline. “You can’t cross a tsetse fly with a mountain climber. One’s a vector and the other’s a scaler (scalar)” ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2022, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerdy-geeky-jokes/975532/50 "2022-11-26T23:29:21Z")
I think \*\* Chronos\*\* was complimenting us with the assumption that we could extrapolate from incomplete data. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2022, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerdy-geeky-jokes/975532/51 "2022-11-27T02:58:24Z")
I, for one, appreciated the clarification! (Math isn’t my strong suit.) ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2022, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerdy-geeky-jokes/975532/52 "2022-11-27T04:48:39Z")
> [@janis\_and\_c0](#): > > The Roman holds up two fingers and says “Five beers, please.” In a similar vein\* did Roman medics transfuse blood with “4” needles? \*Get it? ---
**Author:** ![Orville\_mogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/aeb1de/32.png) [@Orville\_mogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orville_mogul)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2022, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerdy-geeky-jokes/975532/53 "2022-11-27T07:00:30Z")
Awesome thread. If you don’t mind the slight hijack, I would be curious to know the background of the people here and how many of these jokes they understand. I studied economics (masters level) and got about half the jokes. ---
**Author:** ![abcdefghij](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/43a26b/32.png) [@abcdefghij](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/abcdefghij)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2022, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerdy-geeky-jokes/975532/54 "2022-11-27T12:58:28Z")
> [@Orville\_mogul](#): > > I would be curious to know the background of the people here and how many of these jokes they understand. Materials scientist; I had to look up Tarski-Banach. ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2022, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerdy-geeky-jokes/975532/55 "2022-11-27T16:04:42Z")
I’m an uneducated blue collar bloke with a passion for reading, a curious mind (and a curious mind as well). Plus I’ve been hanging out around here for a few years which helps more than one might think at first. I got maybe a little more than half and had to look up Banach-Tarski I started this thread based on the sighting of the golden rule license plate. Where I live it is deeply trumpian politically so something like that is surprising and different from the normal religiously themed personalized plates seen on cars around here. Also I just wanted to start a fun thread of jokes ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Mouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mighty_mouse/32/7776_2.png) [@Mighty\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Mouse)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2022, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerdy-geeky-jokes/975532/56 "2022-11-27T16:51:58Z")
> [@DorkVader](#): > > I’m an uneducated blue collar bloke with a passion for reading, a curious mind (and a curious mind as well). Plus I’ve been hanging out around here for a few years which helps more than one might think at first. Uneducated and passion for reading cannot coexist for long. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2022, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerdy-geeky-jokes/975532/57 "2022-11-27T17:04:49Z")
> [@DorkVader](#): > > I started this thread based on the sighting of the golden rule license plate. I once saw a license plate that read PANDNH4. Learning some rudimentary chemistry at Nuke School helped a lot with that. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2022, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerdy-geeky-jokes/975532/58 "2022-11-27T17:38:10Z")
> [@Orville\_mogul](#): > > If you don’t mind the slight hijack, I would be curious to know the background of the people here and how many of these jokes they understand. I’m an electrical engineer, and I got most of the math, physics and chemistry jokes. Though I have to admit that I didn’t catch the AUNRULE joke in the OP. ---
**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:** [November 27, 2022, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerdy-geeky-jokes/975532/59 "2022-11-27T18:14:30Z")
> [@markn\_1](#): > > An engineer, a physicist and a mathematician are on a plane flying over Kansas. Looking out the window, they see a black sheep in a field below them. > > The engineer says, “Look, the sheep in Kansas are black!” > > The physicist says, “That’s an unwarranted conclusion. All we can say is that _some_ sheep in Kansas are black.” > > The mathematician says, “No, what we can says is there is at least one sheep in Kansas that is black … on top.” And the spiritualist replies, “At least part of the time…” ---
**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:** [November 27, 2022, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerdy-geeky-jokes/975532/60 "2022-11-27T18:21:28Z")
An engineer, a physicist and a mathematician spot a fire in a waste basket. The engineer grabs some water and puts it out. The physicist estimates the mass of burning waste and carefully measures out just enough water to quench the flames without any left over water. The mathematician grabs some chalk and runs to the black board and writes, GIven: there is a fire. Given: Water will extinguish fires. GIven: We have some water. Q.E.D. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerdy-geeky-jokes/975532.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerdy-geeky-jokes/975532.md?page=4)