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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 18 Sep 2019
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      Q: What’s the difference between ontology and taxonomy A: Ontology is the study of how to kill jokes about taxonomy

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 18 Sep 2019
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      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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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 18 Sep 2019
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      Zapp Brannigan is a category of ontological jokes all by himselfpic.twitter.com/0eGTp5fGvM

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 18 Sep 2019
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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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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 18 Sep 2019
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      An advanced one along the same lines that you’ve probably seenpic.twitter.com/xZS5dlyZO0

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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 18 Sep 2019
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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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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 18 Sep 2019
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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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        2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 18 Sep 2019
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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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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 18 Sep 2019
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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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        4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 18 Sep 2019
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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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        1. Sentient Haunted Fortress Brandomancer‏ @neurosophic 18 Sep 2019
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          🤣🤣

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        2. Callum Flack‏ @callumflack 18 Sep 2019
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          if you can't find yourself on that list, I always like @sarahdoingthing 's effort:https://theviewfromhellyes.wordpress.com/2016/07/10/one-hundred-imaginary-gifts-from-the-simulators/ …

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        3. Callum Flack‏ @callumflack 18 Sep 2019
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          I'm 12

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        1. Mr. Eli W. Jones‏ @mreliwjones 18 Sep 2019
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          In the one I know, it's a "water pitcher", but we all circle the same drain.https://twitter.com/mreliwjones/status/1115423449802055681?s=20 …

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          ‘(l) et cetera, (m) having just broken the water pitcher, (n) that from a long way off look like flies’ http://individual.utoronto.ca/bmclean/hermeneutics/foucault_suppl/OT_Borges.htm …
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