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Thanks. There's more where that came from.

Post 2

Sunday, May 20, 2007 - 6:47am

That gave me a belly laugh. Thanks, Marty!

Jim

Post 3

Sunday, May 20, 2007 - 2:34pm

I've often wondered who write all the great jokes that are passed around. Some of them are so well contrived that it's not possible for me to think they just evolved in the retelling. There's a kind of genius to some of them.

Marty, your comment "There's more where that came from" hints that you may know of at least one source. Perhaps it's you yourself?

Post 4

Sunday, May 20, 2007 - 4:07pm

Medieval tech support

http://www.devilducky.com:80/media/57946

Sam

Post 5

Sunday, May 20, 2007 - 4:38pm

Rodney,

Marty gave a wonderful talk at the last Summer Seminar on Beauty and Cleverness in Mathematics that was half math, half comedy routine. He is also a very accomplished musician and I had great fun playing music with him at the last two seminars and when I lived in suburban New York about 5 miles from his home. I suspect that many of his jokes are home grown :-).

Jim

(Edited by James Heaps-Nelson on 5/21, 8:19am)

(Edited by James Heaps-Nelson on 5/21, 8:20am)

Post 6

Sunday, May 20, 2007 - 7:00pm

Sam, thank you! I now know where to go to get help with my newly acquired Holmes-Ginsbook device.

Post 7

Sunday, May 20, 2007 - 7:11pm

Jim, that's very interesting to me, since many years ago I myself created and performed an Objectivism-driven "philosophical magic act." (And in it, I touched upon mathematics. But only from the standpoint of epistemology.)

And then there is Robin Field, who performed a philosophical comedy/music act.

Anyway, I find it intriguing that no matter how successful a joke gets in terms of entering pop culture, I have never heard of anyone coming forward to brag, "I wrote that!"

Post 8

Sunday, May 20, 2007 - 8:18pm

Writing jokes could be hazardous.

Monty Python's Funniest Joke in the World.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yff5Sp6bN6k

Post 9

Thursday, May 24, 2007 - 2:39pm