From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!alice!rabbit!ark
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Title: Hofstadter jokes?
Article-I.D.: rabbit.1165
Posted: Mon Feb 28 02:44:59 1983
Received: Tue Mar  1 02:19:54 1983

Apparently these are making the rounds among SF fans.
Hofstadter, the author of "Goedel, Escher, Bach -- an Eternal Golden Braid",
also writes the "Metamagical Themas" column in Scientific American.
He is virtually obsessed with the idea of self-reference.
The following two jokes illustrate the point:

	Have you heard the latest Hofstadter joke?
	You have now.

	Why did Hofstadter cross the road?
	To make this joke possible.

Any others?  (Reply by mail, please!  I will summarize and post)

			Andrew Koenig
			....[research!]rabbit!ark