Meta? Did someone mention metahumour?

• I’ve never meta-joke I didn’t like.¹
• A priest, a rabbi and a leprechaun walk into a bar. The leprechaun looks around and says, “Saints preserve us! I’m in the wrong joke!” ¹
• “The sources of quotes found on the internet are not always reliable.” — Abraham Lincoln.^{3; cf. 2}
• Condemn ambiguity and other stuff.³
• Today’s Horoscope: “You are easily influenced by what you read and have the ability to make vague sentences somehow applicable to your own existence.” ¹
• There are three things an engineer has to master: 1. Estimation 3. Interpolation.³
• To Joanna:
  My brilliant and beautiful wife without whom I would be nothing. She always comforts and consoles, never complains or interferes, asks nothing and endures all, and writes my dedications.
  — A.P. Malvino, Electronic Principles (1993)^2,4
• xkcd: Hofstadter
• And now, Google for recursion (“Did you mean ...”)

References
¹Wikipedia: Meta-joke
²SELF-REFERENCE JOKES: A COLLECTION
³Quora: What is the most self-referential joke ever?
⁴Tal Cohen’s Bookshelf: Book In-Jokes

SCNR :-)

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