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| #10100 | | A social scientist, studying the culture and traditions of a small North
African tribe, found a woman still practicing the ancient art of matchmaking.
Locally, she was known as the Moor, the marrier.
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| #10101 | | A statistician, who refused to fly after reading of the alarmingly high
probability that there will be a bomb on any given plane, realized that
the probability of there being two bombs on any given flight is very low.
Now, whenever he flies, he carries a bomb with him.
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| #10102 | | A transistor protected by a fast-acting fuse will protect the fuse by
blowing first.
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| #10103 | | A triangle which has an angle of 135 degrees is called an obscene triangle.
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| #10104 | | According to convention there is a sweet and a bitter, a hot and a cold,
and according to convention, there is an order. In truth, there are atoms
and a void.
-- Democritus, 400 B.C.
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| #10105 | | According to the latest official figures, 43% of all statistics are
totally worthless.
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| #10106 | | ACHTUNG!!!
Das machine is nicht fur gefingerpoken und mittengrabben. Ist easy schnappen
der springenwerk, blowenfusen und corkenpoppen mit spitzensparken. Ist nicht
fur gewerken by das dummkopfen. Das rubbernecken sightseeren keepen hands
in das pockets. Relaxen und vatch das blinkenlights!!!
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| #10107 | | Actually, the probability is 100% that the elevator will be going in the
right direction. Proof by induction:
N=1. Trivially true, since both you and the elevator only have one
floor to go to.
Assume true for N, prove for N+1:
If you are on any of the first N floors, then it is true by the
induction hypothesis. If you are on the N+1st floor, then both you
and the elevator have only one choice, namely down. Therefore,
it is true for all N+1 floors.
QED.
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| #10108 | | After a number of decimal places, nobody gives a damn.
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| #10109 | | After an instrument has been assembled, extra components will be found
on the bench.
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