A guy gets sent to prison and on the first night, someone yells out a number and everyone starts to laugh. After this goes on for a while, the guy asks his cellmate what is going on. The cell mate replies that there is one joke book in the library which everyone has read. Instead of telling the joke, they just call out the number of their favorite joke. The next day the guy goes to the library, finds the book and picks out the number of a joke. That night when people are calling out numbers, he calls out his number. No body laughs. The guy asks his cell mate why? The cell mate replies "Some folks can tell a joke, others can't."
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“There is no such thing as a normal period of history. Normality is a fiction of economic textbooks.”
— Joan Robinson, “Contributions to Modern Economics” (1978)
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