Tjalling Koopmans Puns

Hey all, Scott Facts Man here. I'm sick as hell and can't focus, so I'm just gonna write whatever my fingers want for this one. Ok? Ok.

Leonid Kantrovich, the guy I'm 65% sure is the SocDem Komi leader if you yeet Voznesensky from the party but then elect the SocDems anyway, was born on a date in a year in Saint Petersburg, which is best known as that one place from Anastasia the movie. He began studying at Leningrad University at the age of fourteen for reasons that're beyond me, graduating four years later and becoming a professor at 22. When optimizing a plywood factory, he invented a technique known as linear programming, which I probably couldn't explain even if I wasn't sick, which I am. So instead I'm going to talk about Nikolai Rhyzkov, the LibSoc Zhukov successor who's still alive and active in Russian politics. It weirds me out that the guy I condemned as being a tool of a communist dictatorship could very easily find my random-ass writeup on his life just by googling his own name and then wasting half an hour getting to page 50 where the post would show up, whereupon he'd say something like "нахрен это?", which I wouldn't understand since he'd be speaking in Russian and I only speak English. Kantrovich used math to help with the Road of Life during the Siege of Leningrad, which I'm going to believe despite absolutely no citation on wikipedia because I couldn't care less about this guy. He was assigned to the Russian atomic bomb project in 1948, a post so significant that there's also no citation for it whatsoever. He shared a Nobel Memorial Prize(whatever that is) with a guy named Tjalling Koopmans, who I refuse to believe is real because no human being would ever have such a name. Kantrovich did math stuff for awhile before dying on the 18th of April in '75, and hardly a man is now alive who remembers that famous day and year. As always, thank you all for watching and get out of my house.

That is a new research paper by Tom Coupé, here is one excerpt:

I find that search intensity rankings based on Google Trends data are only modestly correlated with more traditional measures of scholarly impact…

The definition of who counts as an economist is somewhat, so:

Plato, Aristotle and Karl Marx constitute the top three. They are followed by B. R. Ambedkar, John Locke and Thomas

Aquinas, with Adam Smith taking the seventh place. Smith is followed by Max Weber, John Maynard Keynes and the top-ranking Nobel Prize winner, John Forbes Nash Jr.

…John Forbes Nash Jr., Arthur Lewis, Milton Friedman, Paul Krugman and Friedrich Hayek are the most searched for Nobel Prize winners for economics, while Tjalling Koopmans, Reinhard Selten, Lawrence Klein, James Meade and Dale T. Mortensen have the lowest search intensity.

Here are the complete rankings, if you are wondering I come in at #104, just ahead of William Stanley Jevons, one of the other Marginal Revolution guys, and considerably ahead of Walras and Menger, early co-bloggers on this site.  Gary Becker is what…#172?  Ken Arrow is #184.  The internet is a funny place.

I guess I found this on Twitter, but I have forgotten whom to thank – sorry!

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Do your worst!

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

They’re on standbi

Pilot on me!!

It really does, I swear!

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "

When I got home, they were still there.

I won't be doing that today!

You take away their little brooms

This morning, my 4 year old daughter.

Daughter: I'm hungry

Me: nerves building, smile widening

Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.

She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.

Thank you all for listening.

There hasn't been a post all year!

It’s pronounced “Noel.”

After all his first name is No-vac

What, then, is Chinese rap?

Edit:

Notable mentions from the comments:

• Spanish/Swedish/Swiss/Serbian hits

• French/Finnish art

• Country/Canadian rap

• Chinese/Country/Canadian rock

• Turkish/Tunisian/Taiwanese rap

There hasn't been a single post this year!

(Happy 2022 from New Zealand)

Bob

So that I could frequently say, "I am going to walk 5 miles now."

Edit: My most popular post on Reddit! 😀 Thank you for the awards.

Just to clarify, 12345678

Me grabbing a soda from my (what I thought was) half full 12pk...

Notices there's only 2;

Me: "Awe man... This is a damn bird box!" Her: "What the hell does that mean?!" Me: (Pulls both cans out & shows them to her) "It's only got Toucans."

I'm not ashamed to admit the look on her face was glorious.

I was just sitting there doing nothing.

“BOOM”?!

"That's what they're fighting about."

Because his Visa didn’t work.

free

Because the audience only responds in a low ha