My Joke Collection (#24)

We owe a lot to Thomas Edison—if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight.
—Milton Berle (Wikipedia)

A world without electricity would be a different world indeed. We'd be getting our monthly light bills from the candle utilities. What's nice about this joke is that it's based on a cramped world view devoid of science; that a world without electricity is the same as one with. Only without.

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Comments

Anonymous said…
Ah edision.

My first scientific love thanks to my 2XL...
March 10, 2007
P.L. Frederick said…
Wow, the 2XL, as in "the smartest toy robot in the world"? (2XL website) How fun!
March 10, 2007
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