# So what did two guys do before walking into a bar?

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**Created:** [March 1, 2018, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-did-two-guys-do-before-walking-into-a-bar/809791 "2018-03-01T02:11:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2018, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-did-two-guys-do-before-walking-into-a-bar/809791/21 "2018-03-01T22:53:15Z")

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I don’t know what happened in past jokes before people walked into bars. But as we exhaust these jokes, I see a glorious future of new jokes about limbo dancers.

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**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2018, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-did-two-guys-do-before-walking-into-a-bar/809791/22 "2018-03-02T14:55:37Z")

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Two guys walk below a bar…

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**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2018, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-did-two-guys-do-before-walking-into-a-bar/809791/23 "2018-03-02T15:44:05Z")

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And of course there have been bars since the ancient days.

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**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2018, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-did-two-guys-do-before-walking-into-a-bar/809791/24 "2018-03-02T17:20:07Z")

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Og stumbles out of a bar.

Og smashed.

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**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2018, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-did-two-guys-do-before-walking-into-a-bar/809791/25 "2018-03-02T18:21:51Z")

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Since the ratio of jokes to factual answers in this thread is about 10:1, it’s probably best to move this to MPSIMS.

Colibri  
General Questions Moderator

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**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2018, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-did-two-guys-do-before-walking-into-a-bar/809791/26 "2018-03-02T20:36:18Z")

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> [@Riemann](#):
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> I don’t know what happened in past jokes before people walked into bars. But as we exhaust these jokes, I see a glorious future of new jokes about limbo dancers.

Just yesterday I read in a cooking column [cite on request] about a cook having as much chance in getting the recipe to work as he would against a three-legged dwarf in a limbo contest.

FTR

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**Author:** ![Backwater\_Under\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ba8739/32.png) [@Backwater\_Under\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Backwater_Under_Duck)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2018, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-did-two-guys-do-before-walking-into-a-bar/809791/27 "2018-03-03T02:07:19Z")

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> [@dstarfire](#):
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> “pull my finger”? ISTR that a most early comedy was rather scatological.

Definitely early. [_Pull my finger_](https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/%2527Adam%2527s_Creation_Sistine_Chapel_ceiling%2527_by_Michelangelo_JBU33cut.jpg/600px-%2527Adam%2527s_Creation_Sistine_Chapel_ceiling%2527_by_Michelangelo_JBU33cut.jpg&imgrefurl=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Creation_of_Adam&h=267&w=600&tbnid=DLO0rQaVVdTqXM:&tbnh=150&tbnw=337&usg=__7Jv9UNJmDIfviV75QSjGwMclfMU%3D&vet=10ahUKEwimvZGKiM_ZAhVD7WMKHU8JDd4Q_B0IrwIwDQ..i&docid=z6wsmx1yBNn7nM&itg=1&client=opera&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwimvZGKiM_ZAhVD7WMKHU8JDd4Q_B0IrwIwDQ).

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