(Bad)Joke Appreciation Corner

[λ the β-Redex Reducer]

I'm not sure if that'd hold true. Java and C# have GCs.

Apparently their GC is broken like the rest of those languages.

 

[Null]

It's 2021, and President Joe Biden is told he needs to assemble a cabinet.
Coming back from IKEA, he realizes he's greatly misunderstood the task.

 

[Confuzzled]

What do you call a deer with no eyes? No idea (no-eye deer)

What do you call a deer with no eyes and no legs?

Spoiler

Still no idea.

What do you call a deer with no eyes and no legs and no ears?

Spoiler

Anything you like, it can't hear you.

(There is a version from the 'blue book', but I'm not posting that here)

Edit: dear -> deer.

 

[λ the β-Redex Reducer]

Spoiler: How do you get an elephant in a refrigerator?

First the ele and then the phant.

Spoiler: How do you get a Giraffe in a refrigerator?

First take out the elephant, then put in the Giraffe.

Spoiler: King lion has a meeting and only one animal did not come to king lion's meeting. Which animal is it?

The giraffe, because he was in the refrigerator.

Spoiler: How do you safely cross a river where crocodiles live?

Just swim through it, the crocodiles are all at king lion's meeting.

 

[Null]

Do you have a date for Valentine’s Day?
Yes, it's February 14th.

 

[λ the β-Redex Reducer]

Pyra is a good name. It starts with an I.

 

[ClockworkCoder]

Pyra is a good name. It starts with an I.

Is there a joke? You're just stating facts.

 

[Confuzzled]

Pyra is a good name. It starts with an I.

I agree that Pyra is a good name. It does start with a vertical stroke.

Spoiler

;-)

 

[λ the β-Redex Reducer]

the Vertical line is | not I.

 

[Confuzzled]

the Vertical line is | not I.

I refer the honourable gentleman to the Wikipedia article on typeface anatomy.

And referring to the ghost of René Magritte, I will say that the name of the Pyra is not Pyra.

 

[Null]

Why did the old man fall in the well?
Because he couldn’t see that well.

 

[λ the β-Redex Reducer]

I refer the honourable gentleman to the Wikipedia article on typeface anatomy.

That article is about the anatomy of the symbols, not about their semantics. The P does not contain an I, it contains a stroke, just like the I does. But the I is more than just a stroke, it is a stroke with semantics added to it. It is like how x and × have the same anatomy but are very different thanks to their semantics. If the anatomy was all there is then x and × would have been the same. But they are not and people who use x instead of × are barbarians. Do not be like them, respect semantics.

And referring to the ghost of René Magritte, I will say that the name of the Pyra is not Pyra.

I do not understand this one at all. What do you mean?

 

[levi]

Rene Magritte's most famous work is 'C'est nes une pipe' under a picture of a pipe; it's not a pipe, it's a picture of a pipe. By analogy the name 'Pyra' is not a Pyra.

 

[wismerhill]

Rene Magritte's most famous work is 'C'est nes une pipe' under a picture of a pipe; it's not a pipe, it's a picture of a pipe. By analogy the name 'Pyra' is not a Pyra.

Here you go https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treachery_of_Images

 

[Binky]

 

[FBnil]

Unicode Character 'VERTICAL LINE' (U+007C)

www.fileformat.info

Pyrate: Arrr, I travelled the |s *(7C=seven Sea's)

 

[λ the β-Redex Reducer]

Rene Magritte's most famous work is 'C'est nes une pipe' under a picture of a pipe; it's not a pipe, it's a picture of a pipe. By analogy the name 'Pyra' is not a Pyra.

Actually, it is not a picture of a pipe either. It is a word.

 

[Null]

I asked my dog what's two minus two. He said nothing.

 

[Confuzzled]

Pyra is a good name. It starts with an I.

I agree that Pyra is a good name. It does start with a vertical stroke.

That article is about the anatomy of the symbols, not about their semantics. The P does not contain an I, it contains a stroke, just like the I does. But the I is more than just a stroke, it is a stroke with semantics added to it. It is like how x and × have the same anatomy but are very different thanks to their semantics. If the anatomy was all there is then x and × would have been the same. But they are not and people who use x instead of × are barbarians. Do not be like them, respect semantics.

If one assumes that the symbols/glyphs are read from left to right, then the first stroke of the first symbol/glyph of 'P' is a vertical stroke, and so is that of 'I'. It just so happens the last stroke of the symbol 'I' is the same vertical stroke that is the starting stroke. So in a sense, they both start with an example of the same type of thing. How you interpret the stroke is up to you.

Your joke was a variant of "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is a very long word. Spell 'it'." beloved of a certain children, which is a joke because it plays with mixing up a reference to a thing with the thing itself - or as a programmer might say, treating a pointer as an absolute address or vice versa (Or, as I learned, the difference between passing an argument to a function by value or by reference).

And of course, 'Pyra' is not the name of the Pyra. 'Pyra' is simply a set of symbols, which could be executed as ink on paper, a lack of electrons hitting the phosphor on a cathode-ray tube, or chiselled out of/inscribed into a lump of granite. The idea of reading a set of symbols and understanding them to refer to an intangible thing is so natural and everyday, we are surprised when the magic of the process is exposed to our view again. Children have to work hard to learn it. Perhaps the 'name of the Pyra' is, in fact, a sound which a set of symbols allows us to approximate in our heads - but even here, we know that the sounds are ephemeral, and different people will produce subtly different versions, so the Platonic ideal of ' the name of the Pyra' is, in the end, intangible. It could even be like the secret names of cats [reference], known only to the Pyra itself, or perhaps, EvilDragon.

But, to come back to semantics, it is all based around playing with the referrer and referent and exploiting the ambiguities of language, topics playfully dealt with in passing by Douglas Hofstadter in GEB, and Raymond Smullyan in What is the Name of this Book? (both of which I thoroughly recommend).

 

[Null]

I like telling Dad jokes. Sometimes he laughs!