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The Joke Without an Author

Whose joke was it?

The Joke Without an Author

You tell a joke at dinner. Your friend laughs and says they told you the same joke last summer. You have no memory of hearing it and thought of the wording on the bus that morning.

Whose joke was it?

Then ask

  • Can you invent something you once forgot?
  • Would the wording matter more than the idea?
  • What if your friend heard it from you years ago?

The classics and some new ones. A scenario, the question it forces, and the follow-ups that make it bite.

More at this level

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  2. The Room of Slips
  3. Mary's Grey Room
  4. The Lever
  5. The Handwriting
  6. The New Song
  7. Same Dog
  8. The Forgery