Anyone know if there’s a thread specific to nerdy jokes that actuaries would probably (not a pun I promise) best get a kick out of? I just created an account on here and wanted to mourn my ancient Actuarial Outpost account… but backspaced all that when I remembered this hilarious thread from the old AO that I bookmarked with these super specific jokes. Here’s one I had saved from the AO in a Gmail draft from a decade back:
An accountant, a lawyer, and an actuary are walking down the street when they come upon a man who has just accidently dropped a number of coins out of his pocket onto the sidewalk. The accountant glances around at the coins, totals their value, and advises the man on how much he lost. The lawyer ignores the coins and starts searching the sidewalk for dollar bills. And the actuary uses the total value of the lost coins to project what’s left in the guy’s pocket.
I think there is a website of actuarial jokes, numbered so actuaries don’t have to tell the whole joke. Just say a number, and other actuaries will laugh from memory.
So, 119!
I like the one, to paraphrase, where a life insurance company is like a car with underwriting steering the car with a blindfold on, marketing with their foot on the gas as far as it’ll go, and the actuary looking out the back window giving directions.
reminds me of when a sales wiz at a previous company told the team he had the bright idea of a product that pays out if anyone is ever diagnosed with covid 19
some people just can’t tell a joke.
