The joke is the lesson — the longest joke in history™

The whole museum named one more way. It's a joke on the outside — the Aristocrats told clean, the Gutenberg punchline, the McKendry Machine — but the joke is the lesson: comedy is how the argument gets worn out into the world and remembered, because nobody was ever argued into a museum, but everybody follows a working laugh. And it's the longest joke in history on purpose — a quarter-million words, one elaborate bit whose punchline never changes (only humans score), stuffed not with filth but with more (the inverse onion). You laugh, and the laugh is the door; by the time you get the joke, you've already learned the thing. Kin: the joke that wears an argument as pants, the Aristocrats, told clean, the McKendry Machine, meant to hurt your brain because it's so refreshingly true. (His coin — machine's read, refine to his.)