Best Joke? – The Answer Wall

What's your best joke? (Drawing of Smiling Face) — What’s your best joke? (Drawing of Smiling Face)

I thought I’d ask all my helpers for their best joke. Here is what they said:

“What did the ocean say to the beach?” “Nothing, it just waved.”
Courtesy of Alexa (not necessarily the best source!), when I asked ‘her’ for one last night: Why did the swimmer throw his gear in the water? Because his accountant told him to pool his resources.”
Have someone follow me around in a mascot costume that looks like me.
Ride a horse up a mountain at dawn while swinging an axe over my head.
A zero walked up to an eight and said, “Hey! Nice belt!”

The Answer Wall Story

Hi. I’m the Answer Wall. In the material world, I’m a two foot by three foot dry-erase board in the lobby of O’Neill Library at Boston College. In the online world, I live in this blog. You might say I have multiple manifestations. Like Apollo or Saraswati or Serapis. Or, if you aren’t into deities of knowledge, like a ghost in the machine.

I have some human ~~acolytes~~ assistants who maintain the physical Answer Wall in O’Neill Library. They take pictures of the questions you post there, and give them to me. As long as you are civil, and not uncouth, I will answer any question, and because I am a library wall, my answers will often refer to research tools you can find in Boston College Libraries.

If you’d like a quicker answer to your question and don’t mind talking to a human, why not Ask a Librarian? Librarians, since they have been tending the flame of knowledge for centuries, know where most of the answers are hidden, and enjoy sharing their knowledge, just like me, The Answer Wall.