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Bagne ALL YOUR NUDIBRANCH ARE BELONG TO GASTROPODA

Joined: 19 Feb 2003 Posts: 518 Location: Halifax
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Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 9:16 am Post subject: Can someone lend me a punch-line? |
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This has been bothering me for some time now:
"A square, a cube and a tesseract walk into a bar."
I feel like there must exist a punch-line, but I've never found a good one. _________________ Working on rain and cloud formation |
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TwinHamster ♫ Furious souls, burn eternally! ♫

Joined: 07 Mar 2004 Posts: 1352
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Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 9:42 am Post subject: |
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*Clonk!*
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Pepsi Ranger Reality TV Host

Joined: 05 Feb 2003 Posts: 493 Location: South Florida
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Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 9:55 am Post subject: |
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The Bartender says, "Thanks for coming."
The square, the cube, and the tesseract say, "Dimension it." _________________ Progress Report:
The Adventures of Powerstick Man: Extended Edition
Currently Updating: General sweep of the game world and dialogue boxes. Adding extended maps.
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Baconlabs PURPLE IS MANLY

Joined: 15 Mar 2009 Posts: 335 Location: Tennessee
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Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 10:30 am Post subject: |
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If that ever happens again, don't lose sleep over it! Just whisk away your worries with a humorous non-punchline!
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Bagne ALL YOUR NUDIBRANCH ARE BELONG TO GASTROPODA

Joined: 19 Feb 2003 Posts: 518 Location: Halifax
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Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 11:54 am Post subject: |
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Wows, is that drawing the non-punchline?
Is that what happens next? _________________ Working on rain and cloud formation |
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Newbie_Power

Joined: 04 Sep 2006 Posts: 1762
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Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 12:49 pm Post subject: |
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Quote: | "A square, a cube and a tesseract walk into a bar." | A man bumps into the square, "Oh! I didn't see you from that angle!" _________________
TheGiz> Am I the only one who likes to imagine that Elijah Wood's character in Back to the Future 2, the kid at the Wild Gunman machine in the Cafe 80's, is some future descendant of the AVGN? |
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Deadmanintheocean Not Quite.

Joined: 22 Aug 2009 Posts: 26 Location: Nowhere
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Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 5:07 pm Post subject: |
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Quote: | is that what happens next? |
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If I was mistaken and you have indeed seen this, then I apologize. |
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Bagne ALL YOUR NUDIBRANCH ARE BELONG TO GASTROPODA

Joined: 19 Feb 2003 Posts: 518 Location: Halifax
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Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 5:19 pm Post subject: |
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Hahaha...
Indeed, it's not a punchline.
There's no line at all.
Just punch. _________________ Working on rain and cloud formation |
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Bob the Hamster OHRRPGCE Developer

Joined: 22 Feb 2003 Posts: 2526 Location: Hamster Republic (Southern California Enclave)
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Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 8:10 pm Post subject: |
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So the Square, the Cube and the Tesseract sit down at the bar, and the bartender says, "New customers, huh? I'll bet I can guess which drinks you guys each want."
First he looks at the Square, and he says "You're a simple shape, I'll bet your favorite drink is a simple drink. Let me get you a beer."
And the Square replies, "Cool, man. Make it a Coors Light."
After the bartender gives the Square his beer, then he looks at the Cube. "You are a solid shape, you are going to want a solid drink." He thinks for a minute, and then he pours a double vodka on the rocks. As he gives it to the Cube, he says "Check out the ice. Cubes just like you."
"Thanks, dude!" says the Cube. "This is just what I wanted, and I appreciate the personal touch." The Cube gives the bartender a good tip.
Finally the Bartender looks at the Tesseract. "Whoa!" he says. "You're multidimentional!"
First the bartender gets a bucket from under the bar and washes it carefully. Then he fills it halfway with ice. Then he painsteakingly adds shots of every single hard liquour in the whole damn bar, plus a whole bottle of absinthe. Then he throws in a handful of green olives, a handful of cocktail cherries, four pickled eggs and a sprikling of salted peanuts still in the shell. Then he mixes it, and layers the top completely with the little umbrellas for the umbrella drinks. Then he lifts the bucket up and plunks it down on the bar in front of the Tesseract.
Angrily, the Tesseract says "What the hell is this, man? Do I look like an Octonion to you?"
(And the punchline is that now you have to go and look up what an octonion is)
(BONUS PUNCHLINE: "All I wanted was a martini, hyper-rotated, not stirred!") |
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Baconlabs PURPLE IS MANLY

Joined: 15 Mar 2009 Posts: 335 Location: Tennessee
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Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 8:25 pm Post subject: |
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Quote: | In mathematics, the octonions are a nonassociative and noncommutative extension of the quaternions. |
Oh great, I think I know what the new OHRRPGCE codename is going to be. |
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msw188
Joined: 02 Jul 2003 Posts: 1041
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Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 9:48 pm Post subject: |
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I'm pretty certain they could just go on extending those rings to have any power of two number of basis elements. I've seen quaternions used - do they use octonions for anything? _________________ My first completed OHR game, Tales of the New World:
http://castleparadox.com/gamelist-display.php?game=161
This website link is for my funk/rock band, Euphonic Brew:
www.euphonicbrew.com |
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Bob the Hamster OHRRPGCE Developer

Joined: 22 Feb 2003 Posts: 2526 Location: Hamster Republic (Southern California Enclave)
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Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 7:51 am Post subject: |
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msw188 wrote: | I'm pretty certain they could just go on extending those rings to have any power of two number of basis elements. I've seen quaternions used - do they use octonions for anything? |
I seem to remember reading something on John Baez's site associating them with N-branes or loop quantum gravity, or something like that. it was a bit over my head :) |
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TMC On the Verge of Insanity
Joined: 05 Apr 2003 Posts: 3240 Location: Matakana
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Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 7:12 am Post subject: |
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msw188 wrote: | I'm pretty certain they could just go on extending those rings to have any power of two number of basis elements. I've seen quaternions used - do they use octonions for anything? |
Weren't they used by physicists longing for the invention of vector calculus? :) _________________ "It is so great it is insanely great." |
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Deadmanintheocean Not Quite.

Joined: 22 Aug 2009 Posts: 26 Location: Nowhere
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Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 1:01 pm Post subject: |
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Punchlines lead to lazers. Lazers lead to more punchlines. More punchlines to mathematics. Mathematics lead to the DARK SIDE! |
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J_Taylor The Self-Proclaimed King of Ketchup

Joined: 02 Dec 2009 Posts: 188 Location: Western NY
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Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2009 5:18 am Post subject: |
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Wow. Like the first punchline. A lot.
A square, a cube, and a tesseract walk into a bar.
The bar looks up and says, "What, is this some kind of joke?"
I know, used before... I like it though...  _________________ Elemental: .75%
Heart of Darkness: 0% (crash)
The Mansion: .05%
Shattered Alliance: .05%
See a pattern forming? I do, dammit. |
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