[lbo-talk] Circulation Plunges at Major US Newspapers

[Carl Remick]

>From: ravi <ravi.bulk at gmail.com>
>
>At around 1/11/06 11:56 am, Doug Henwood wrote:
> >
> >> A friend of mine once claimed that all humour is at the cost of
> >> somebody (I gave him a joke that I thought was not so: "1+1=2 even for
> >> large values of 1", but he responded that that is a joke about
> >> mathematical terminology and therefore mathematicians).
> >
> > Wow, you're right. I can't compete with wit like that!
> >
>
>No need to get snarky now! ;-) I didn't offer "1+1=2 ..." as an example
>of great wit (the joke's not my invention, btw), but as an example of
>something that is funny but does not make fun of someone.

Hmm, I see it more as an example of mathematical humor, and since 
mathematics deals with imaginary concepts, its humor also is imaginary 
:)-squared

See also:  "A German joke is no laughing matter."

Carl

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