Jun 15, 2015

The Magna Carta Joke

From about the age of 10, I could remember that the historic signing of the Magna Carta happened in the year 1215. How? Thanks to this joke which I read in Reader's Digest:

A tourist guide is with a group of visitors at Runnymede, where the Magna Carta was signed. He tells them: "this is where the Magna Carta, or the Great Charter, was signed in 1215.


One visitor looks at his watch and remarks: "Damn, we just missed it by about an hour, then".

1 comment:

pwlsax said...

Setup is everything...Much better if the guide does not give a date, and then the other guy asks, "when did that happen?"
"1215 sir."
(looks at watch) "Dang, we missed it by half an hour!"