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Stop Me If You've Heard This: A History and Philosophy of Jokes
Stop Me If You've Heard This A History and Philosophy of Jokes
Author: Jim Holt
A priest, a rabbi and a minister walk into bar. 'What is this', the barman says, 'some kind of joke?'. As he laughs his way though the history of jokes, Jim Holt discovers that most of those we trade are actually hundreds of years old: Palamedes, a Greek hero of the Trojan War, is credited with inventing the joke (before being stoned to death) a...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780393343991
ISBN-10: 0393343995
Publication Date: 7/1/2008
Pages: 162
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Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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