All my favorite jokes are ontological jokes. Let me list a few of my favorites. See if you can kill them all by explaining why they work.
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Zapp Brannigan is a category of ontological jokes all by himselfpic.twitter.com/0eGTp5fGvM
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A bit 101, but hilarious: Zapp: If we can hit that bullseye the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards: checkmatehttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KfU69_up02Y …
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An advanced one along the same lines that you’ve probably seenpic.twitter.com/xZS5dlyZO0
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Grad school level: Homer Simpson counts dumbbell reps. 95, 96, 13, 64, banana. I call this Homeric Cardinality. It may be an obscure reference I don’t get, but I enjoy it as an ontological joke. Here it is, in German whynot.https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=x8KYgbifNOo …
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De rigeur reference to Borges encyclopedia. A pre-killed ontological joke that you have to back up a bit to laugh at. Tag yourself. I’m 13: Those that have just broken a flower vase. https://multicians.org/thvv/borges-animals.html …pic.twitter.com/frjo0K6Mgz
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Here’s a really advanced ontological joke I enjoyed as a kid: “What’s common between Amitabh Bachchan and Hitler?” “I don’t know.” “They’re both dictators, except for Amitabh Bachchan”
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Ontological humor isn’t absurdity. It creeps right up to the line of absurdity without crossing over. Lewis Carroll was a master of that.
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If you want a serious primer on the topic here you go https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-ontology/ …
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I remembered it as an ontology is a taxonomy of taxonomies.
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That’s partly what Frege hoped, Russell killed, and Godel buried
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