Authority Jokes

Proof by example:
The author gives only the case n = 2 and suggests that it contains most of the ideas of the general Proof.
Proof by intimidation:
"Trivial."
Proof by vigorous handwaving:
Works well in a classroom or seminar setting.
Proof by cumbersome notation:
Best done with access to at least four alphabets and special symbols.
Proof by exhaustion:
An issue or two of a journal devoted to your Proof is useful.
Proof by omission:
'The reader may easily supply the details'
"The other 253 cases are analogous"
"..."
Proof by obfuscation:
A long plotless sequence of true and/or meaningless syntactically related statements.
Proof by wishful citation:
The author cites the negation, converse, or generalization of a theorem from the literature to support his claims.
Proof by funding:
How could three different government agencies be wrong?
Proof by eminent authority:
"I saw more...

Question Authority.

A leading authority is anyone who has guessed right more than once.

I have as much authority as the Pope. I just don't have as many people who believe it.

When a man decides to marry, it may be the last decision he'll ever make.
Some men who speak with authority at work know enough to bow to a higher authority at home
A dish towel will certainly wipe the contented look off a married man's face
Love is the quest, marriage is the conquest, divorce is the inquest.
An engagement is an urge on the verge of a merg.
Marriage brings music to a man's life. He learns to play second fiddle.
Getting married is one mistake every man should make.
A well-informed man is one whose wife has just told him what she thinks of him.
Courtship, unlike proper punctuation, is a period before a sentence.
The argument you just won with your wife isn't over yet.
and lastly............
Before criticizing your wife's faults, you must remember it may have been these very defects which prevented her from gettting a better husband that the one she married!!