Where did jokes come from?
Just got curious and wondered...aw no. Let me not spin yarns here, it's my Blog right?
So, I read a very interesting thought in one of Isaac Asimov's stories.
Where do jokes come from?
He argues, and very cogently, that whenever we hear of a new joke and try to trace it's source, we find that everybody in the link had heard it somewhere. No one has ever been able to trace a joke to a person who claimed to have created the joke!
Of course, this excludes the possiblity of peole trying to claim false glory.
Now I really wonder, where exactly do these jokes came from?
One more thing, most new jokes are just old wine in new bottle, rather new hi-tec, digital age bottle but the theme remains the same as found in many old versions.
So...where did those originals come from into the collective consciousness of humanity?
Did anyone plant jokes in our minds?
T..h..i..n..k..