Prime Jokes / Recent Jokes
A group of people were sitting and having coffee. Suddenly, a friend of the mathematician of the group boomed in and said, Did you hear that? A mathematician has developed a theorem which says that every odd number higher than 2 is a prime. So, here are the thoughts of every person in the room.
The Mathematician: 3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, 7 is a prime, 9 is not a prime. Theorem disproved!
The Physicist: 3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, 7 is a prime, 9 is an experimental error, 11 is a prime,...
The Engineer: 3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, 7 is a prime, 9 is practically a prime, 11 is a prime,...
The Programmer: 3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, 7 is a prime, 7 is a prime, 7 is a prime,...
The Salesperson: 3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, 7 is a prime, 9 - we'll do for you the best we can,...
The Computer Software Salesperson: 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 will be prime in the next release,...
The Biologist: 3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, 7 is a prime, 9 - results have more...
The star recruit forward who had just been signed for an enormous sum of money was being interviewed on television.
"You appear to be earning more money than the prime minister," said the interviewer.
"Only fair," said the football star, "I play a lot better than he does."
From the book "Mr. President, Why Don't You Paint Your White House Another Color?"
When asked about the then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Shauna, age 10 responded: "I don't know about her. The only girl I can think of is the one in the Tom Sawyer book. Is that who you mean? I didn't know she grew up to be a prime minister. Was that in another book?"
Several years ago, and this story is true, I was riding "shot gun" with a friend on a Road Train.(For our foreign readers - a road Train is a Prime Mover with up to 5 Trailers and they are regularly used for transporting goods and livestock in outback Australia).
We were moving cattle from a cattle station near the Alice up to Katherine and onto Darwin. Nothing special until we were flagged down by a couple of indigenous Australians who had run out of petrol about 250 just outside of Katherine. We pulled up and went back to see what the problem was and they pleaded up to tow them into town(Katherine) we laughed and said that they were crazy to want our truck to tow an old rust bucket of a Ford 250 KM on a dirt road.
Anyway they managed to convince Pete and they produced a large chain and Pete said that the chain would rip the front off the car, because a chain has no give in it and so Pete came up with a tow rope that they could use. They eagerly pushed more...
A visitor to the vatican met with the Pope and noticed a red phone sitting on his desk.
What's that for?, he asked.
"Oh, that's the direct line to the Lord" said the Pope.
The visitor said, "Wow, how much is a call?"
The Pope answered, "$2,000 per minute."
A few days later the same visitor met the Israeli Prime Minister and noticed a red phone on his desk.
"What's that for?", he asked. "Oh, that's the direct line to the Lord" said the Prime Minister.
The visitor asked "How much is a call?"
The Prime Minister said "20 cents per minute."
The astonsished visitor said, "It can't be. I just saw the Pope who said a call to the Lord is $2,000 per minute."
The Prime Minister answered, "That was long distance, here the Lord is just a local call."
A visitor to the vatican met with the Pope and noticed a red phone sitting on his desk.What's that for?, he asked."Oh, that's the direct line to the Lord" said the Pope.The visitor said, "Wow, how much is a call?"The Pope answered, "$2,000 per minute."A few days later the same visitor met the Israeli Prime Minister and noticed a red phone on his desk."What's that for?", he asked. "Oh, that's the direct line to the Lord" said the Prime Minister.The visitor asked "How much is a call?"The Prime Minister said "20 cents per minute."The astonsished visitor said, "It can't be. I just saw the Pope who said a call to the Lord is $2,000 per minute."The Prime Minister answered, "That was long distance, here the Lord is just a local call."
Father: Son at your age, Winston Churchill used be up and out for his morning walk at 5 a. m. Son: Dad, at your age, he had become the Prime Minister of England.