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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 () Thu Mar 07 1985 23:23

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 19:17`	1
	Hows that for the latest joke with the whitest whiskers!!!
58.2	Nit: last name properly spelled	ELMER::LEVITIN	Sam Levitin	`Mon Mar 03 1986 21:54`	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 09:18`	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 17:55`	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!	`Sun Apr 24 1988 23:29`	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.