"Last week I read with interest that Scottish what's on guide The Skinny will not be giving any performance at this year's Fringe anything less than two stars" http://www.chortle.co.uk/correspondents/2011/08/17/13808/the_star-t_of_a_problem
DILEMMA
(Man sitting at a desk. Another man walks in)
M1: Have you seen this? You've only gone and got a 5 star review!
M2: Yeah, I saw. So what?
M1: So what? It's FIVE stars.
M2: It's not five stars. It's the Prisoner's Dilemma.
M1: What?
M2: There's a prisoner on death row. They tell him "We'll execute you in August but
you won't know the day" So the man thinks to himself "They can't execute me
on the 31st because if it gets that far I will know the day. So that's the 31st out.
And, as they can't come round on the 31st then they can't leave it until the 30th
either, as I'll still know the day" So the guy uses that logic and works all the
way back until he decides that there isn't any day when they can execute him.
The prisoner's logic makes the execution impossible.
M1: What?
M2: It's the same here. That magazine stopped giving out one star reviews to avoid
upsetting people. But then everyone realised that a two star review was really a
one star review. So they stopped giving out two star reviews, and so on and so
on until every single review was a one star review. The magazine's logic
makes reviewing impossible.
M1: Yeah, but they changed the system yesterday and you've got five stars out of a
hundred.
M2: What??!!
M1: Shocking, isn't it? And by the way, your execution is later today.
M2: What???!!! What execution? I'm only in here for looting.
M1: Yeah, they changed the laws on that yesterday as well. Can't see the logic in
it myself.
(Apologies for the formatting and the piss-weak ending. Still, have fun critiquing it to death!)