 Wed Nov 29, 2006 7:32 am Did you ever finally get the joke years later? |
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Did someone ever joke with you, and you were unaware of it. Did you then finally figure out it was a joke years later?
This has happened to me: When I was a kid, I was riding next to my father on the way home from a family trip to Chicago, when I noticed a green-and-white sign on the freeway. It said:
| Quote: | Valparaiso
Chesterton |
I asked my father what "Valparaiso Chesterton" was, and he told me, "He was one of the early explorers of this part of the country." I didn't ask any questions, and I reached my late 20s thinking that there was a pioneer in the days the Midwest was being settled whose name was Valparaiso Chesterton.
Then one day I was driving home from Chicago on my own, and I saw that same sign. It was an exit sign on the freeway, and it was naming two Indiana towns. One was called Valparaiso, and the other was called Chesterton! I yelled, "Dad, YOU JERK!" and then I laughed. |
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Jamie (K)
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