Bilateral Thinking Puzzles
Q: Two men went into a restaurant. They both ordered the same dish from
the menu. After they tasted it, one of the men went outside the
restaurant and shot himself. Why?
A: He had been outside in a storm and had been thoroughly soaked, and
had come inside to warm himself by the fire. He was wearing a leather
collar, and as the collar dried, it shrank, strangling him.
This is another thing that seemed funnier a third of the way into
writing it, from
the Surrealist. 19th August 2005.