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the new pope used to teach physics and was once a math undergrad. Tell me a joke

May 09, 2025 View original thread

the new pope used to teach physics and was once a math undergrad. Tell me a joke

1) R1
2) o3
3) gemini-2.5-pro
4) Claude sonnet 3.7

which wins?

R1:

Sure! Here's a light-hearted joke combining the Pope's background with a playful pun:

**Why did the new pope, the former physics teacher, draw such big crowds to his sermons?**
*Because he always had mass appeal!*

*(Mass: both the physics term and the religious service!)* 😇

o3:

At his very first Sunday Mass, the ex-physics-professor-turned-Pope smiled and said:

“Back in the lab I learned the universe obeys E = mc².
Here in the Vatican we preach a simpler law:

Eternity = missing-Mass × (catholic guilt)².

So if you ever skip church, don’t worry—your absence will be perfectly converted into enough guilt energy to power the confessional for weeks!”

The cardinals are still trying to calculate the half-life of a venial sin.

gemini

It's a common misconception that Pope Francis has a background in physics and math! While he did train as a chemical technician and worked as a chemist before entering the seminary, his primary scientific background is in chemistry.
He has, however, shown a great appreciation for science and has appointed distinguished scientists, including physicists and mathematicians, to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. He also recently wrote an apostolic letter praising the "brilliant and inquisitive mind" of Blaise Pascal, the famous French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher.
Now, for a Pope joke:
Why did the Pope get a new, high-tech, self-driving Popemobile?
Because he wanted to be able to say, "Look, no Hands!"

claude:

Ah, I see you're looking for a pope joke! Here's one that might give you a chuckle:

Why did the physics-teaching pope solve all the church's problems so quickly?

Because he had a *divine* understanding of both spiritual and *scalar* matters!

Would you like me to share another pope joke or perhaps a mathematical one given the pope's background?

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in a blind test, i could spot Google’s model in my sleep

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