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The group that would become the Round Table began meeting in June 1919 as the result of a practical joke carried out by theatrical press agent John Peter Toohey.Toohey, annoyed at The New York Times drama critic Alexander Woollcott for refusing to plug one of Toohey's clients (Eugene O'Neill) in his column, organized a luncheon supposedly to welcome Woollcott back from World War I, where he ...
The Winchester Round Table is a large tabletop hanging in Winchester Castle and bearing the names of various knights of Arthur's court, was probably created for a Round Table tournament. [18] The table is 5.5 metres (18 ft) in diameter and weighs 1.2 tonnes (2,600 lb). [ 19 ]
The "world's funniest joke" is a term used by Richard Wiseman of the University of Hertfordshire in 2002 to summarize one of the results of his research. For his experiment, named LaughLab , he created a website where people could rate and submit jokes. [ 1 ]
The joke was thought up by Spirou editor Yvan Delporte in collaboration with Tintin's editors. [46] [47] [48] Scientific American columnist Martin Gardner wrote in an April 1975 article that MIT had invented a new chess computer program that predicted "pawn to queens rook four" is always the best opening move. [49]
In Scotland, April Fools' Day was originally called "Huntigowk Day". [29] The name is a corruption of "hunt the gowk", gowk being Scots for a cuckoo or a foolish person; alternative terms in Gaelic would be Là na Gocaireachd, "gowking day", or Là Ruith na Cuthaige, "the day of running the cuckoo". The traditional prank is to ask someone to ...
A Round Table was a festive event during the Middle Ages that involved jousting, feasting, and dancing in imitation of King Arthur's legendary court. Named for Arthur's famed Round Table , the festivals generally involved jousts with blunted weapons, and often celebrated weddings or victories.
Make all guests of all ages laugh on Turkey Day by sharing these hilarious, family-friendly jokes, cheesy puns and dad-approved one-liners about Thanksgiving. 55 Turkey Jokes Dad Has Definitely ...
The joke is a commonly transmitted type of internet meme. It is well known that orally-transmitted jokes and other kind of folklore undergo evolution and mutations. Internet speeds up and globalizes these processes. [6] A FAQ of rec.humor gave the following tongue-in-cheek description how jokes propagated in the era of newsgroups: [7]