Comments on: Behaviorist Joke

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:02:58 +0000

The punchline of the “yeah right” joke was actually “Yeah, yeah.” And it actually happened. The speaker was J.L. Austin, who was speaking at Columbia, and the voice in the back belonged, not to a student, but to the philosopher Sydney Morganbesser.

By: matt

matt — Tue, 11 Nov 2003 07:42:26 +0000

hahah…from our matt to yours! …

By: sarahw

sarahw — Tue, 11 Nov 2003 01:24:24 +0000

ha! that’s good

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 08 Nov 2003 06:21:51 +0000

Oh that’s a good one!

By: Davezilla

Davezilla — Sat, 08 Nov 2003 06:17:39 +0000

Reminds me of an old linguist joke:
A Linguistics 101 professor tells a new class, “In English, a double-negative is actually a positive. In Russian, a double-negative remains a negative. But there are no languages where a double-positive equals a negative.” From the back of the class a bored student groans, “Yeah right.”