Let this one lie at rest until you discover the proper context for delivering the line.

Well, in this case, the joke is not a delivered line at all. It's visual image (with a two-word title)

And as such, were it to be revived, the context for it would have to be specifically created (or, in other words: hung in the perfect spot on the perfect wall).

And that's just what I'm asking: can this picture be placed anywhere in a 21st century context and still work as a piece of humor? Is this an ironic concept that can be transplanted 400 years into the future and still flourish (continuing, sort of, the cucumber metaphor from earlier), or has that seed shiveled up and fossilized? I have my own theories, but I thought I'd open it up to Mudcat discussion...

...And now that I'm thinking about it, I'm wondering just how much, if at all, our 21st century humor is based primarily on images, rather than words. We tend to think of ourselves as a predominately visual culture, but maybe we're not so much, after all...

*goes of to Google "Visal jokes"