Proof: all April fools’ jokes are interesting
April 1st, 2008 | by Sol |Do you get inundated with April fools’ jokes every year? They all seem interesting, don’t they? Have you ever wondered if someday you’ll encounter an uninteresting April fools’ joke? As it turns out, all of them are interesting. Here’s the proof.
This will be an indirect proof. We’ll assume that there are some uninteresting April fools’ jokes and we’ll show a contradiction.
1. Let S be the set of uninteresting April fools’ jokes.
2. Since we’re assuming that there exists at least one uninteresting April fools’ joke then we assert that S is not the empty set.
3. By the well ordering principle, every non-empty set of April fools’ jokes contains a least interesting element.
4. Let L be the least interesting element of set S.
5. So, there exists a least interesting April fools’ joke. Well, that’s pretty interesting.
6. So, we’ve encountered a contradiction. Thus, our original assumption, that there are uninteresting April fools’ jokes, is incorrect. Thus, all April fools’ jokes are interesting.
QED
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4 Responses to “Proof: all April fools’ jokes are interesting”
By Anatoly on Apr 1, 2008 | Reply
This is only true if you can find a way to apply an order to the set.
Different people will find different jokes uninteresting..
The museum of hoaxes list of ten worst April fool jokes seems to be a trivial result of your theorem :)..
By Pat ballew on Apr 2, 2008 | Reply
OF course you still have to prove that there is one interesting joke, otherwise, they could ALL be uninteresting.
By mohame A. Gaas on Apr 24, 2008 | Reply
or if you can’t proof the April fools’ day jokes are all uninteresting to everybody