pretty little blonde

[CatalinaWOW]

Have you ever noticed how jokes recycle, often not improving over time.

Here is one example.  I like the original, but the "developed" version tries a little too hard.

[hamster_nz]

To be a good Electronics Engineer, you need all three skills.
Electronics and Mathematics.

What's the third? Physics?

The ability to work with incomplete specifications. 

[Synthtech]

A man is flying in a hot air balloon and realizes he is lost. He spots a man down below and lowers the balloon to shout: “Excuse me, can you help me? I promised my friend I would meet him half an hour ago, but I don’t know where I am.”

The man below says: “Yes. You are in a hot air balloon, hovering approximately 30 feet above this field. You are between 40 and 42 degrees N. latitude, and between 58 and 60 degrees W. longitude.”

“You must be an engineer” says the balloonist.

“I am” replies the man. “How did you know.”

“Well” says the balloonist, “everything you have told me is technically correct, but I have no idea what to make of your information, and the fact is I am still lost.”

The man below says “You must be a manager.”

“I am” replies the balloonist, “but how did you know?”

“Well”, says the man, “you don’t know where you are, or where you are going. You have made a promise which you have no idea how to keep, and you expect me to solve your problems. The fact is you are in the exact same position you were in before we met, but now it is somehow my fault.”

[T3sl4co1l]

Have you ever noticed how jokes recycle, often not improving over time.

Noticed that when selecting the ones I copied... they required significant editing.  The references didn't look particularly new either (if probably not 90s classic age).

Tim

[CatalinaWOW]

I know first hand that most of these jokes far predate the nineties.  Can't say how old they really are.

[BradC]

I know first hand that most of these jokes far predate the nineties.  Can't say how old they really are.

Most of them were probably found when someone tripped over the stone tablet.

[Ice-Tea]

So, John walks the street and he encounters a dude he went to school with 20 years ago.

"Hey Jim! How have you been! What have you been up to?"

"Well, I'm a professor in applied logic..."

"Well, that's awesome! But... what's applied logic?"

Jim thinks for a bit and then says: "Do you have a fish?"

"Yeah!"

"So, you love animals!"

"I guess..."

"Women are animals..."

"I suppose."

"So, you love women."

"Sure."

"So, you're not gay! See, that's logic!"

John, mightily impressed, continues his stroll untill he ends up in his pub. He sits down at the counter and tells his buddy: "Hey, guess who I met today! Jim!"

"Cool! What's he up to these days"?

"He's a professor in applied logic..."

"What now?"

"Well, let me give you an example... Do you have a fish?"

"No."

"So, yeah, you're gay"