On May 21, 2011 11:08 AM, "Adam P. Goucher" <apgoucher@gmx.com> wrote:
After reading about the Abelian grape, I decided to make a few myself:
Q: What's yellow and equivalent to the Axiom of Choice? A: Zorn's Lemon
(Unfortunately, I have been beaten to this one, according to MathWorld!)
By decades, yes.
Q: What's green and has a real product? A: Conjugate pear
Nice! It is flawed when delivered aloud, though, because it tales work, even in context, to decode the homophone.
Q: What's yellow and can be rearranged into two copies of itself? A: Banana-Tarski Paradox
I think this is dominated by the "great new anagram" B-T P joke. Also, the paradox itself isn't what can be so rearranged, though your joke could be adjusted to compensate.
Q: What's light green and a subspace of the complex plane? A: Real lime
The canonical variant here is "What is green, far away, and compactifies the real plane? A: The lime at infinity." --Michael _______________________________________________
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Q: What's light green and a subspace of the complex plane? A: Real lime
The canonical variant here is "What is green, far away, and compactifies the real plane? A: The lime at infinity."
One friend of mine at university came up with: "What is green and determined up to isomorphism by its first Chern class? A lime bundle." I prefer yours, not least because I actually know what it means :-). The Banana-Tarski one isn't close enough to homophony for me. -- g
Sorry, everybody --- just can't stop meself --- "What's pale green and 24-dimensional? The Leech lettuce!" WFL On 5/21/11, Gareth McCaughan <gareth.mccaughan@pobox.com> wrote:
Q: What's light green and a subspace of the complex plane? A: Real lime
The canonical variant here is "What is green, far away, and compactifies the real plane? A: The lime at infinity."
One friend of mine at university came up with: "What is green and determined up to isomorphism by its first Chern class? A lime bundle." I prefer yours, not least because I actually know what it means :-).
The Banana-Tarski one isn't close enough to homophony for me.
-- g
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