Ο x Per = 8
“I broke up with a girl years ago because of her obsession with counting. I wonder what she’s up to these days…”
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I’m not sure the first assertion is obvious. But maybe I’m not the most casual of observers.
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I thought the same, but maybe it works if you read it as “things you mind” over “things that matter”?
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Indeed, they should have been defined first. This is heavy math.
So long as it’s not a surprise tracheotomy, we’re still bordering on math.
…Ok, I suppose even that would fit in topology, but still…
Oddly enough, a marketing email I get that I’ve previously referenced used that same false dichotomy joke on the same day, so now I 'm wondering about provenance…
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To treat my Crohn’s disease, I once got a box with a label that said “Take one per rectum daily.”
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I mean, ChatGPT jokes are pretty much mathematical jokes by definition, right?
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Is that a zine or a paperback?
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It was a short lived pulp magazine along the same lines as Analog or Locus-- I linked to it so you can read “Jokester” (and judge Asimov’s “taste” in jokes).
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I remember we had a whole lotta those kinda zines upstairs in our old house in Detroit. Lots of Ellery Queens & Alfred Hitchcock’s Presents, too - still finding those and it’s been over thirty years since we lived there.
I know about his “taste” in jokes just from this title: “The Sensuous Dirty Old Man”. A real asshole around women.
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Technically, it’d be the character’s taste. 
Though, it is an interesting one in that the character telling the jokes explicitly points out that they seem to be written for older times and how problematic the humor in them is.
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Math, how does it work?
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