Fleeting Jokes

"The world is a cruel uncaring void!" he cried. "Pleasure is fleeting but pain is eternal! Hope is a mirage! What cruel God made this reality!?"

Next to him, his wife stirred.

"Oh honey...is it Monday already...?"

As he stares down at the rocks below, he notices a man out of the corner of his eye. He glances over and sees a Buddhist monk standing between two trees. The monk beckons him with his hand.

With nothing to lose, the man shuffles over to the monk, who is holding a string of prayer flags. "You... read more

Twenty five years. Twenty five years, and I never killed a single person until a few months ago. Now I'm on death row for multiple charges: manslaughter, murder, negligence.

After the first, I thought it was over. I thought nothing of the fact that the Sheriff warned me I would be sentenced t... read more

They sit down and order beers.

The objectivist takes a drink and says "I wish I could enjoy this without wondering if I enjoy this just because I was told to."

The nihilist takes a drink and says "I wish I could enjoy this without knowing enjoyment is only fleeting."

The ab... read more

The Pope leans in toward Hillary and says "Do you know that with one wave of my hand I can make every person in this crowd go wild with joy?" This joy will not be fleeting or momentary, in fact it will go deep into their hearts and they will forever remember this day and rejoice.

Hillary repl... read more

... and discovered the latter, named Richard, had managed to get his hands on two of the most elusive quarks - the notorious up-quark and the sought-after down-quark.

Now the physicist was a bit of a connoisseur himself, and had managed to get his hands on all the four other quarks and their ... read more

A Chemist and a Psychologist walk into a bar. The chemist says to the bartender "I'll have one h two oh please". The psychologist, in a fleeting fit of flaunting his intelligence, said "I'll have a jack and coke, it's all my mother's fault."

I was once an admiral, but only fleetingly. One of my captains only stayed at the back of his ship, he was so stern. Another decorated the front of his with bow-ties. The ship of the third somehow shrunk to his size and cap-sized. Eventually they a-mast some followers and threw me overboard - a rudd... read more