What An Average Response

My office is full of mathematicians. A colleague is telling us about how he managed to insult one of our bad bosses without said boss realising it.

Colleague: “So I told him that he must be at the top of the bell curve.”

Me: “That’s just mean.”

Colleague: “Is that… a statistics pun?”

Me: *Winks.*

Other Colleague: “That doesn’t make sense, as if by bell curve we’re talking a normal distribution, then the mean, median, and mode are all the same.”

Colleague: “[My Name], don’t make jokes around statisticians.”

Other Colleague: *Confused.* “What joke?”