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Originally Posted by Fat Charlie
I don't have OCD, I'm just interested in clear communication.
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Nice! That is a better joke than my Isaac Asimov one. People always laugh, I explain it, and they do not think that it is funny. Strange how I stopped telling it.
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Jim comes into a bar and finds his best friend, Bill, at a comer table gravely nursing a glass of beer and wearing a look of solemnity on his face. Jim sits down at the table and says sympathetically, "What's the matter, Bill?"
Bill sighs, and says, "My wife ran off yesterday with my best friend."
Jim says, in a shocked voice, "What are you talking about, Bill? I'm your best friend."
To which Bill answers softly, "Not anymore."
I trust you see the change in point of view. The natural supposition is that poor Bill is sunk in gloom over a tragic loss. It is only with the last three words that you realize, quite suddenly, that he is, in actual fact, delighted. And the average human male is sufficiently ambivalent about his wife (however beloved she might be) to greet this particular change in point of view with delight of his own.
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http://www.e-reading.ws/chapter.php/...-_Prodigy.html
People usually comment that a lousy best friend runs off with his best friend's wife.
"No, he was so happy that his wife ran off that whoever took her became his new best friend."
"That is a stupid joke!"
