Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!akgua!mcnc!ncsu!uvacs!gmf From: gmf@uvacs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: My first & last (new!) LBJs Message-ID: <1535@uvacs.UUCP> Date: Wed, 26-Sep-84 22:24:08 EDT Article-I.D.: uvacs.1535 Posted: Wed Sep 26 22:24:08 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 29-Sep-84 10:35:00 EDT Lines: 23 [Fly into this lightbulb and die, bug] Two uncanonical lightbulb jokes, the first & last I will ever brighten your day with: 1. How many lightbulbs does it take to change a lightbulb? One, if it knows its own Goedel number. 2. How many lightbulb jokes does it take to change a lightbulb joke? The probability that a given lightbulb joke will be submitted to the net in any given week is .4, and the probability that it will have changed detectably since the last transmission is .2 . Hence (assuming independence, which is reasonable since no submitter of a lightbulb joke ever seems to know it has been submitted before, within the last 2 or 3 weeks), the probability that it will change in a given week is .08 . So it takes about 12.5 lightbulb jokes to change a lightbulb joke. Gordon Fisher