I’m going to poke around now, but I’m almost completely sure it’s the latter.
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Looks like this beliefs resurfaces every couple years, and doesn’t seem to have a real source- certainly the earliest written example (which a couple different news things claim is “The Knickerbocker” in 1847) doesn’t explain the joke. So who knows.
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I'm pretty sure it's just an anti-joke that people have forgotten is an anti-joke
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See that’s what I thought.
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it's a pure non-sequitur
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(True, but it’s interesting to read it the other way.)
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Not true.
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