(December 26, 2017 at 3:42 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote:(December 25, 2017 at 7:24 pm)pgrimes15 Wrote: Don't get it.
Not funny once you 'splain it, but he felt it was more worthwhile to golf than to attend his wife's funeral.
Ah yes I understand now. It was the phrasing of the punchline that confused me.
"Forgive me .... but we were married for 25 years."
would have been clearer.
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. — Edward Gibbon