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All right, here's a new one: a guy walks into a bar and... What was I going to say? It could be any of a wide range of things. Regardless what words were about to come out of my mouth, they were most likely going to be combined in such a way that it would be perceived as funny, hopefully initiating laughter. I was telling a joke. I was setting it up and you were probably preparing yourself for hearing about an unusual situation followed by the inevitable, unexpected outcome, or punch line.
Ever since there was spoken language, people have told jokes. Well, not really, but that's what I like to think. On the day of creation Adam soon became hungry. Adam turned to Eve and said, "What's for dinner?" Eve replied, "All I could find was this apple." To which Adam responded, "Apple?!? I told you I wanted some pizza rolls and Easy-Mac!" "But honey, the microwave won't be invented for thousands of years... and besides, this snake I talked to said that this apple would be really good," Eve recalled. Adam sighed, "Well, if a talking snake recommends it, then what the heck..." Soon after, Adam and Eve both realized they weren't wearing any clothes and went to Old Navy where they purchased some inexpensive cargo pants.
Oops, I kind of got off track there. I lost my train of thought! I guess I'll have to take the bus of thought now. OK, fine, no more puns. Sorry. Well, back on subject: Humor has been in use for virtually all of history for many different reasons (I will talk about this more, later on). I'm becoming distracted by the picture of me and my best friend at the beach (I'm the guy on the left) so click on one of the links!
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