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An engineer, a physicist and a mathematician walk into a bar …

Opinion
Dec 3, 20101 min

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before

BoingBoing readers were asked to contribute their favorite science and math jokes yesterday. As I type, the count is up to 211. Some are old, some are repetitive, some aren’t the least bit funny, many I don’t get … but I had to make myself stop reading.

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pmcnamara
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In addition to my editing duties, I have written Buzzblog since January, 2006 and wrote the 'Net Buzz column in Network World's dearly departed print edition for 13 years. Feel free to e-mail me at pmcnamara@nww.com.

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