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[theweaselking]

Werner Heisenberg, Kurt Gödel, and Noam Chomsky walk into a bar.

Heisenberg says, "It's very odd and improbable that we three are in this bar together. It suggests to me that we're in a joke, but I can't be certain."

Gödel says, "Well, if we were outside the joke we would know, but since we're inside it, there's no way we can make that determination."

And Chomsky says, "Of course this is a joke, but you're telling it wrong!"
-Mike Ford

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[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Also: The joke itself isn't *that* complicated. The only things you need to know are that Heisenberg is famous for the Uncertainty Principle (you don't even need to know what it is, beyond that it deals with probabilities and the physical impossibility of certainty), Godel is a logician who stressed the need for proofs and did a lot of work on proving whether or not a proof was possible, and Chomsky is a bit of an abrasive dick.

[almostwitty]

I knew that about Heisenberg (thank you Star Trek!) but the other two required a Wikipedia search.

Who needs to know anything when you have the Internet?