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Everything old is new again

Last night while going to bed I was reading the book "Asimov Jokes Again", which is a collection of jokes, anecdotes and limerics by the old master of science fiction, with some interspersed general commentary about joke-telling and other topics. The book was printed in as late as 1992, but all jokes in this book are much older, usually so old that they have hair on them. But it's kind of interesting to read old-fashioned jokes and anecdotes to get an idea how people thought in the ancient past several decades ago. There was even a joke about an ugly old maid who protested when the rapist didn't want to rape her, unthinkable today of course. The jokes are numbered from 1 to 743, and I am now at around 230, so I have to wonder if an ethnic joke section is coming up.

Especially in retrospect, both anecdote 56 about a newspaper cartoon and its commentary are both funny ha-ha and funny strange. First, the joke:

The cartoon I refer to shows a line of crusaders on their horses heading eastward to fight in the Holy Land. The horseman in the lead is talking to another horseman on his left, and the caption reads: "I hope this won't offend the Muslims."

Asimov's commentary then says:

The trouple with Joke #56 is that it is topical. It is tied to a news event and such jokes grow quickly stale. Already the Rushdie affair is a thing of the past, and people are notorious for their the shortness of their memories.

So very true.

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