Deliberately obscure jokes

[oatmeal]

Why did the elephant paint its toenails red?

So it could hide in cherry trees!

 

[oatmeal]

Why did the elephant paint its toenails red?

So it could hide in cherry trees!

Have you ever seen an elephant in a cherry tree?

 

[oatmeal]

Have you ever seen an elephant in a cherry tree?

No!?

It works, doesn't it!

 

[Truster]

Written on a subway wall.

"Werner Heisenberg may have been here".

 

[Truster]

Curiosity may or may not have killed Schrödinger's cat.

 

[Truster]

Werner Heisenberg, Kurt Gödel, and Noam Chomsky walk into a bar. Heisenberg turns to the other two and says, "Clearly this is a joke, but how can we figure out if it's funny or not?" Gödel replies, "We can't know that because we're inside the joke." Chomsky says, "Of course it's funny. You're just telling it wrong."

 

[Truster]

There are 10 kinds of people: those who understand binary and those who don't.

OR

"There are 10 types of people in the world: those that understand ternary, those that don't, and those scrambling for a dictionary."

 

[Truster]

Two parrots were sitting on a perch. One said to the other do you smell fish?

 

[Truster]

Jean-Paul Sartre is sitting at a cafe, revising his draft of Being and Nothingness. The waitress comes out and asks him if he would like to order. "Yes madame, I would like a cup of coffee, please, with no cream." The waitress hurries back inside, and just as quickly comes back out and says to Sartre "I'm so very sorry monsueir, but we seem to be out of cream. Would you like it with no milk instead?"

 

[TIPlatypus]

I read a book about shipbuilding once. It was riveting.