The department of invuluntary throat spasm

[Thunderer]

Here's a Byzantine joke.

A fisherman had a son. But he didn't want his son to also be a fisherman, he wanted his son to have a better life, so he sent him to finish the elementary school to learn how to read and write. After that, he sent him to a grammar school (equivalent to today's high school) so his son could become a clerk in the Byzantine administration. But after having graduated, his son wanted to go to a school of rhetoric. Although this was expensive and his father was poor, his father wanted him to be happy and worked hard to finance his studies. A year later, the son comes to visit his family.

They are having a lunch, but as the father is saving money, there are only two eggs on the table. To boast how he's learning useful things at the school of rhetoric, the son says: "Don't worry, I will turn these two eggs into three eggs! Here's one", he takes one, "And here's two", he takes the other. "One plus two equals three, no?" His parents nod. "See, I have made three eggs out of two eggs!"

But then his tired father adds: "Then your mother will have that egg", he points at it, "I will have this egg", he takes the other, "And you will have the one that you've created with your rhetoric!"

Here are some more: https://web.archive.org/web/201904021146...okes.shtml

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