50wordstories.ca » jokes https://50wordstories.ca/blog "Brevity is the soul of wit" -- Shakespeare Fri, 03 May 2013 19:31:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 Extroverted Suicide https://50wordstories.ca/blog/?p=210 https://50wordstories.ca/blog/?p=210#comments Fri, 16 Oct 2009 03:48:10 +0000 http://50wordstories.ca/blog/?p=210 He’d killed himself so many times that all his jokes about suicide rang hollow in his heart.

But he soldiered on, moving along the probability axis, from one alternate universe to another, killing any of his alternate selves that he found had not lived as worthy a life as his.

]]> https://50wordstories.ca/blog/?feed=rss2&p=210 0 Q.E.D. https://50wordstories.ca/blog/?p=93 https://50wordstories.ca/blog/?p=93#comments Sat, 22 Aug 2009 15:00:20 +0000 http://50wordstories.ca/blog/?p=93 “All jokes are finite (all have punchlines.)  Naturally, the longest joke must also be finite.”

“Agreed.”

“Consequently, there’s a finite number of character arrangements that can form a joke.”

“Yes.”

“Ergo, there’s a finite number of jokes.”

“What happens if we tell the last joke?”

“I think we just did.”

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