Bonus - Mysterious Jokes from the Past
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Joe Miller's Jests
A ship being in a storm at sea was in great danger, whereupon the captain commanded every man to throw into the sea his heaviest things A passenger who had his wife then offered to throw her overboard. He's got a fat wife, everybody. But the crew saved her and asked him whether he was mad to try to throw her over. Who answered, well, she is the heaviest thing I have and I can best spare her. She has long been a heavy burden to me. It doesn't quite say burden. What does it say? It says burden. Come on, freaks. Something can joke.
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