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Subject: My first & last (new!) LBJs
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Date: Wed, 26-Sep-84 22:24:08 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 26 22:24:08 1984
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[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