The e-mailman brought me a joke I liked:
"How many members of a certain demographic group does it take to perform a specified task?"
"A finite number: one to perform the task and an additional number to act in a manner stereotypical of the group in question."
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The beauty of this joke is that it makes all the light bulb jokes redundant. No more need for "How many blondes does it take to screw in a light bulb?" jokes. They're all contained in the generic joke.
This, of course, follows the computer scientist argument that higher levels of abstraction make particular phenomena trivial and devoid of intellectual substance. Once you get the generic case sorted out, all the particular cases are uninteresting.
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