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Why is it that the first joke children are ever taught is "Why did the chicken cross the road?" When you don't really know what a joke is, the punchline doesn't really make any sense. It just sounds like some idiot stating the obvious. You know, like this blog.

It's actually a pretty brilliant subversion of the "punchline" concept. The recipient is expecting an actual joke at the end, but then finds out that there isn't one. It's a really clever type of humor. So why is the most generic, repeated joke a joke that relies entirely on the recipient of the joke to be familiar enough with the concept of a joke to even make sense? Because people are stupid.

Like, was a seriously the only one who, as a kid, just thought that it was either way over my head, and I would figure out with years more experience, or that everyone around me had some kind of brain disease? You know, because when I was a kid, I didn't know what a joke was, but I did know all about brain diseases.  My parents were strange people.

Well, this post was a bit too short, so to make up for it, please enjoy this picture of a bear.