#13: That Old Chestnut
Today, I learned that a tired old joke is even older and more tiring than we thought. This is one of those lines that I imagine being used by middle-tier standup comics that my grandparents would have enjoyed listening to over a light supper in the 1960s.
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But it’s much older than that! As old as Rome, in fact. Maybe that makes it so old that instead of being old and tired, it has now become a revered antique, and we should quote it with as much reverence as we would the Aeneid or Ovid’s Metamorphosis.