I Really Like a Steven Wright Joke I Heard Years Ago

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mnaz
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I Really Like a Steven Wright Joke I Heard Years Ago

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"If you were driving at the speed of light
and you turned on your headlights,
would they do anything?"

I wish I could make
a poem out of that.
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Re: I Really Like a Steven Wright Joke I Heard Years Ago

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[PEDANTRY ALERT] Actually, according Special Relativity, the answer is Yes, they would - at least in your frame of reference. Don't ask me what bystanders would see, 'cause I never quite wrapped my mind around that stuff. I was a Newtonian physics guy... /PEDANTRY ALERT]

Great joke, though - love Steven Wright.
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"If one could deduce the nature of the Creator from a study of creation, it would appear that He has an inordinate fondness for beetles." -- evolutionary biologist J B S Haldane, (1892-1964)
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Re: I Really Like a Steven Wright Joke I Heard Years Ago

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Well, if someone happened to watch me pass, sitting at less than the speed of light... Ah well, the whole thing's a bit silly.

And one of my other favorites: "You can't have everything. Where would you put it?"...
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