Q: How many light bulbs does it take to change a light bulb?A: One, if it knows its own Goedel number.Note: I thought this was something to do with the maths/logic theories of Kurt Goedel, about it being impossible to prove things, and finally a more complete explanation arrived in my mailbox : – A Goedel Number is one of several ways to encode a Turing Machine, the classical abstraction of a computer, or for that matter of any algorithm. The idea (as best I see it) is that if the machine knows its own Goedel Number it can simulate itself… It does come from the mathematician Goedel – partly because he used TMs in his famous theorem, I believe.)
Category: light bulbs
Q: How many London
Q: How many London taxi drivers does it take to change a lightbulb ?A: (Cue typical indignant Saaaaf London accent) What ? Go all the way up there and come back empty ? You must be jokin’ mate !
Q: How many teenage
Q: How many teenage girls does it take to screw in a light bulb?A: One, but she’ll be on the phone for five hours telling all her friends about it.
Q: How many graduate
Q: How many graduate students does it take to screw in a light bulb?A: Only one, but it may take upwards of five years for him to get it done.
Q: How many surgeons
Q: How many surgeons does it take to change a light bulb?A: Three. They’d also like to remove the socket as you aren’t using it now.
Q: How many alt.atheism
Q: How many alt.atheism readers does it take to change a lightbulb ?A: Two. One to screw the bulb, one to prove that it exists anyway.
Q: How many quantum
Q: How many quantum mechanicians does it take to change a light bulb?A: They can’t. If they know where the socket is, they cannot locate the new bulb.
Q: How many Oregonians
Q: How many Oregonians does it take to screw in a light bulb?A: Six. One to screw in the lightbulb and five to fend off all those Californians trying to share the experience.
Q: How many Torontonians
Q: How many Torontonians does it take to screw in a light bulb?A: Fifty-one to do it and the other forty-nine to proclaim it’s the greatest event in the history of creation, a truly world-class bulb screwing.
Q: How many Iranians does
Q: How many Iranians does it take to change a light bulb?A: One hundred – One to screw it in and 99 to hold the house hostage.
Q: How many folklorists
Q: How many folklorists does it take to change a lightbulb ?A: Ten. One to change it and nine to document it.
Q: How long will
Q: How long will it take?A: That’s indeterminate. It depends on how many dead bulbs they’ve brought with them.