Smart people don't laugh.
They either "huh, quite" or titter. Both noises demonstrate they have understood the construct of the joke.
Ironically enough, funnier people are usually smarter, according to science.
Test your intelligence as well as your wit on these 12 jokes:
(Emphasis being 'appreciate', not necessarily laugh).
1.
Knock-knock.
Who's there?
To.
To who?
It's actually "To whom?".
2.
A Buddhist monk approaches a burger food-truck and says “make me one with everything.”
3.
What did the scientist say when he found 2 isotopes of helium?
“HeHe”
4.
Entropy isn't what it used to be.
5.
Two drums and a cymbal fall off a cliff.
Duh dum chh.
6.
I poured root beer into a square cup. Now I just have beer.
7.
All those who believe in psycho kinesis, raise my hand.
(Stephen Wright)
8.
Why did the scarecrow win an award?
He was outstanding in his field.
9.
A programmer went to the grocery store. His wife said "while you are out, go get some milk"
He never came back.
10.
Jean Paul Sartre is sitting at a French cafe, revising his draft of Being and Nothingness. He says to the waitress,
"I’d like a cup of coffee, please, with no cream."
The waitress replies, "I’m sorry, Monsieur, but we’re out of cream. How about with no milk?"
11.
Your momma is so mean, she has no standard deviation
12.
I invented a new word today.
Plagiarism.
Got a better one? Leave it in the comments below.
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