Yesterday, all of us were sitting around trying to come up with original jokes, and you know it’s pretty hard!
That’s why we’re prepared to up the ante for the first prize winner in our one liner joke contest! Instead of two free Walker on the Green: Artist-Designed Mini Golf, you will now score two free Rock the Garden Tickets plus two free tickets to Adventures in Mating by Joseph Scrimshaw if you can come up with an original one-line joke about a joke by June 4th.
Why are we doing this? Because we want you to come to out third and final Richard Prince gallery talk about jokes on June 5th. It’s being led by Joseph Scrimshaw who will talk about why jokes are funny and the history behind humor.
The rules are simple:
It has to be an original one-line joke about a joke (we will be searching Google for cheaters!)
And, it has to make Joseph Scrimshaw laugh!
Send all entries to allison.herrera@walkerart.org with name, email, and phone number by June 4th!
Let the best man/woman win!
When I first met my colleague Joe King I said, “You’ve got to be Joe King.”
Comment by Scott Winter — 4/30/2008 @ 5:41 pm
Joe King, we awaiting your witty comeback!
Comment by Allison Herrera — 5/1/2008 @ 11:46 am
First, these basics
Knowledge is Power
Time is Money and as every engineer knows,
Power is Work over Time.
So, substituting algebraic equations for these time worn bits of wisdom, we get:
K = P (1)
T = M (2)
P = W/T (3)
Now, do a few simple substitutions:
Put W/T in for P in equation (1), which yields:
K = W/T (4)
Put M in for T into equation (4), which yields:
K = W/M (5).
Now we’ve got something. Expanding back into English, we get:
Knowledge equals Work over Money.
What this MEANS is that:
1. The More You Know, the More Work You Do, and
2. The More You Know, the Less Money You Make.
Solving for Money, we get:
M = W/K (6)
Money equals Work Over Knowledge.
From equation (6) we see that Money approaches infinity as Knowledge approaches 0, regardless of the Work done.
What THIS MEANS is:
The More you Make, the Less you Know.
Solving for Work, we get
W = M K (7)
Work equals Money times Knowledge
From equation (7) we see that Work approaches 0 as Knowledge approaches 0.
What THIS MEANS is:
The stupid rich do little or no work.
Working out the socioeconomic implications of this breakthrough is left as an exercise for the reader.
Comment by Karen Nelson — 5/7/2008 @ 2:15 pm