Explain the ATL Joke game

Post a joke from an alternate world. The person below will explain the joke. They will also list a POD that creates the TL where the joke exists. To start:

"An elderly Roman man wants to move to a bigger apartment in Constantinople. He answers a series of questions:

Q: Where were you born?
A: Constantinople

Q: Where did you grow up?
A: Hepolis

Q: Where do you live?
A: Floropolis

Q: Where do you want to live?
A: Constantinople"
 
From the Chaos TL's WW2:

A German troop (including a few Judean soldiers accompanying them) has been captured. Stalin himself [note: not OTL Stalin] has decided to inspect them.
"You'll all fell so sorry for messing with Russia! Just let me tell you one thing: My name is Stalin, and I'm as hard as steel!"
Complete silence. Then, suddenly one of the Jewish prisoners starts to laugh.
"Who's laughing there?! What is your name, scum?"
"Moses Diamant!"
 
Post a joke from an alternate world. The person below will explain the joke. They will also list a POD that creates the TL where the joke exists. To start:

"An elderly Roman man wants to move to a bigger apartment in Constantinople. He answers a series of questions:

Q: Where were you born?
A: Constantinople

Q: Where did you grow up?
A: Hepolis

Q: Where do you live?
A: Floropolis

Q: Where do you want to live?
A: Constantinople"


hmm. All of Constantine's sons die trying to kill each other shortly after their father's death, leading to a series of increasingly devastating civil wars that see the city's name changed twice. The Roman is yearing for the stability that Constantine's reign meant.

Or am I mistaken ?
 
From the Chaos TL's WW2:

A German troop (including a few Judean soldiers accompanying them) has been captured. Stalin himself [note: not OTL Stalin] has decided to inspect them.
"You'll all fell so sorry for messing with Russia! Just let me tell you one thing: My name is Stalin, and I'm as hard as steel!"
Complete silence. Then, suddenly one of the Jewish prisoners starts to laugh.
"Who's laughing there?! What is your name, scum?"
"Moses Diamant!"
A diamond (diamant in German) is harder than steel.
No idea for how to make a context for this however, it could have been OTL for how ambiguous it is.
I like the joke though.
 
Q: Why did the chicken cross the street?
A: You will die for questioning Holy Destiny!
In the Examplist sect of Islam, the doctrine of kismet - fate - is raised to such great heights that all scientific advances beyond the era of Mohammed are suppressed for asking impious questions. The apple falls to the ground because God wants it to fall; any further investigation is prying into the mysteries of God which He wishes to be kept secret (or would He not have revealed them to the Prophet?) The manufacture out of thin air of several score new Hadiths wherein Mohammed explains practices of animal husbandry and simple architecture makes this possible.

Outside observers treated this whole thing as ludicrous, as could be seen in a series of jokes where the speaker asks progressively simpler and simpler questions only to receive more and more irate answers, culminating in his being sentenced to death for asking why a chicken walked out of its (unfenced) yard and across the street.

"The President walks into a restaurant and asks for a menu. The waiter says, 'Now I've seen everything.'"
 
In the Examplist sect of Islam, the doctrine of kismet - fate - is raised to such great heights that all scientific advances beyond the era of Mohammed are suppressed for asking impious questions. The apple falls to the ground because God wants it to fall; any further investigation is prying into the mysteries of God which He wishes to be kept secret (or would He not have revealed them to the Prophet?) The manufacture out of thin air of several score new Hadiths wherein Mohammed explains practices of animal husbandry and simple architecture makes this possible.

Outside observers treated this whole thing as ludicrous, as could be seen in a series of jokes where the speaker asks progressively simpler and simpler questions only to receive more and more irate answers, culminating in his being sentenced to death for asking why a chicken walked out of its (unfenced) yard and across the street.

"The President walks into a restaurant and asks for a menu. The waiter says, 'Now I've seen everything.'"


Coooooooooooool.
 
"The President walks into a restaurant and asks for a menu. The waiter says, 'Now I've seen everything.'"

Hyperinflation breaks out following a financial crisis that prevents the US federal government from rolling over its debt without printing huge amounts of money. Among other changes in response to hyperinflation, restaurants stop printing menus because it costs too much to reprint the menus with new prices every day, instead listing specials and prices on a chalkboard. Meanwhile, the administration decides that consumer confidence is the key to recovery and tries to put up a "remain calm -- all is well" front, leading to widespread perception that the President is unbelievably out-of-touch.

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Two New Englander soldiers are posted at a watchtower on a desolate stretch of the western border. One looks out across the border and asks the other, "Are you thinking what I'm thinking?"

The other considers for a moment and replies, "Yes, I think I am."

"Then it is my duty to arrest you."
 
Two New Englander soldiers are posted at a watchtower on a desolate stretch of the western border. One looks out across the border and asks the other, "Are you thinking what I'm thinking?"

The other considers for a moment and replies, "Yes, I think I am."

"Then it is my duty to arrest you."
New England was well known for fascism, even having what amounted to 'thought police' or the next best thing. This is part of a number of jokes used by New Englander comedians before the fall during the period where their society had finally began to open up to the rest of world, later the government penalized these comedians in the later phase of counter-reform (however the damage was done, and New England collapsed soon after into civil war). This particular joke was used by one of the most famous proponents of reintegration with the United States who later was killed and became a martyr for his cause.
 
LORAG:

Q: What do you call an epic historical film about Tasmania's most prominent export ?
A. The Cider Gum Rules.
 
Hey, what do you call a 500-pound citizen?
Malnourished.

In the People's Republic of Britain, during the economic depression of the early 1950s, the government guaranteed every adult male citizen a job paying 500 pounds a year. However, due to persistent inflation and imperfect price controls, this salary isn't quite enough to feed a family.

How many Central Americans does it take to change a light bulb? Six - five to argue about how to do it, and one to tell them that all five ways are fine.
 

Tprynn

Banned
How many Central Americans does it take to change a light bulb? Six - five to argue about how to do it, and one to tell them that all five ways are fine.
After the sudden death of President Alfonso Molina, the Central American congress virtually implodes, with party fighting party and the United Labour Party backing everyone, giving them an easy victory in 1940 elections.


A priest is reading mass and says he has a special letter from the Pope. The crowd in the pews shouts, "Which one?"
 
After the sudden death of President Alfonso Molina, the Central American congress virtually implodes, with party fighting party and the United Labour Party backing everyone, giving them an easy victory in 1940 elections.


A priest is reading mass and says he has a special letter from the Pope. The crowd in the pews shouts, "Which one?"
The schism in the Catholic Church lead to five different popes, one in Spain, Two in Italy, and Two in France. As a result the Catholic Church decided, in order to keep unity in the church that they would have 5 popes who would all report to an arch-pope but were really fairly autonomous. When the New World was discovered in the mid-1500s the catholic church reformed into the "United Church" which attempted to unite the various teachings of the autonomous sects in order to avoid the early colonists from having major disagreements. As a result, politics of religion in the New World became very confusing and often contradictory statements would be accepted as fact.
 
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