You'll probably like this, and get it, if you're just a bit of a nerd... One of my myspace friends is Infinity, and his status (yeah, infinity is a dude) reads:Infinity can't find his one to one correspondence.
How brilliantly simple and funny is that?
For those of you who don't get it, this refers to uncountable sets, first formally understood by mathematician Georg Cantor. Follow this link to see his diagonalisation proof so you can understand the joke.
Of course, once you've understood the mathematical concept, the joke will no longer will be funny, but at least you will have learned something paradoxical; the kind of stuff that tickles your noodle for a long time. One out of two ain't so bad...
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