Oct 15 09:27 2017, Robert Bashe wrote to Markus Reschke:
MR>> That joke is so old it has grown a beard ;)
RB> Is it? Interesting..I just made it up.
There are so many variations of that kind of joke it's hard to come up with something new, I'd guess.
MR>> Yup, we've called that type of jokes "Flachwitze".
RB> Ridicule isn't something I tend to laugh at. Apparently that doesn't RB> apply to all in R24.
My remark wasn't a joke, actually. The jokes we're talking about are really called "Flachwitze" or "Sparwitze", as Gerrit pointed out. Back in school they were funny. Today you would get a mild smile at maximum.