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Conference thebay::joyoflex

Title:	The Joy of Lex
Notice:	A Notes File even your grammar could love
Moderator:	THEBAY::SYSTEM

Created:	Fri Feb 28 1986
Last Modified:	Mon Jun 02 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1192
Total number of notes:	42769

58.0. "Hofsteader Jokes" by MILOS::CALLAS () Fri Mar 08 1985 02:23

Having discussed self-referential statements, I'd like to mention a couple
of Douglas Hofsteader jokes (he is the author of "Godel, Escher, Bach").

Why did Hofsteader cross the road?

To make this joke possible.

Have you heard the latest Hofsteader joke?

You have now.

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
58.1		MUNOIS::DARNOLD		`Tue Mar 12 1985 22:17`	1
	Hows that for the latest joke with the whitest whiskers!!!
58.2	Nit: last name properly spelled	ELMER::LEVITIN	Sam Levitin	`Tue Mar 04 1986 00:54`	4
	The author of _Godel, Escher, Bach_ and of _Mathemagical Themas_ spells his last name Hofstadter. Sam
58.3	another nit	SIVA::PARODI	John H. Parodi	`Tue Mar 04 1986 12:18`	9
	Yes, and his second book is "Metamagical Themas," not "Mathemagical..." The articles in this book were taken from Hofstadter's Scientific American column of the same name. He took over Martin Gardner's "Mathematical Games" column, and the titles are anagrams of each other. JP
58.4	Name that anagram...anagram that name.	FGVAXU::SPELLMAN	Write on the right wright rite!	`Wed Apr 01 1987 20:55`	4
	For those of you who don't know, "Metamagical Themas" is an anagram of "Mathematical Games", which I think is a nice tribute. Chris
58.5	more anagrams	HERON::BUCHANAN	zut bleu!	`Mon Apr 25 1988 02:29`	11
	> < Note 58.4 by FGVAXU::SPELLMAN "Write on the right wright rite!" > > -< Name that anagram...anagram that name. >- > For those of you who don't know, "Metamagical Themas" is an anagram > of "Mathematical Games", which I think is a nice tribute. > Chris And apparently, "Douglas R. Hofstadter" is an anagram of "Martin Gardner", though I haven't checked personally. But equally a nice tribute, don't you think.