Here’s a list of 20 good jokes that are supposedly funny only to intellectuals, but many non-intellectuals will get them too. For example: It’s hard to explain puns to kleptomaniacs because they are always taking things literally.
Ha!
Also, Schrödinger’s cat walks into a bar. And doesn’t.

Here’s a list of 20 good jokes that are supposedly funny only to intellectuals, but many non-intellectuals will get them too. For example: It’s hard to explain puns to kleptomaniacs because they are always taking things literally.

Ha!

Also, Schrödinger’s cat walks into a bar. And doesn’t.

James Lileks blogged about many things today, but among them was labels on filing cabinet drawers. This prompted me to mention, in the comments, a secret joke I’ve been carrying on for years.
I was working at my student job, sitting behind the library desk at Waldorf College, Forest City, Iowa, back around 1968, when I came up with what I thought was a hilarious filing cabinet drawer label joke. (This is a small, rather specialized field of humor.)
Two file drawers, one above the other.
The first is labeled, MEMPHIS to MOBILE.
The second is labeled, NATCHEZ to SAINT JOE.
I’ve had those labels on filing cabinets wherever I’ve lived and/or worked ever since. I don’t think anyone has ever gotten the joke.
Do you? (You get no points if you read down the comments on Lileks’ post and see what I wrote there.)

Here’s an old English riddle, translated from the Anglo-Saxon Exeter Book by Thor Ewing. I’ll answer them in the comments later today.

The air carries little creatures
over the hill-sides, who are utterly black,
swarthy, sable-hued, strident in song,
they go round in gangs calling loudly;
they tread wooded headlands, sometimes the houses
of the children of men. They name themselves.
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