Ingles

Humour is not something exclusive to any particular culture or profession. Just Think of jokers and
tricksters. These characters have always existed in all societies and in all fields of humanactivity. In the
first part of the twentieth century, some famous jokes which took place in different parts of the world and
in different settings were so successful that they became enduringmisconceptions. A good instance of
this is provided by Hugh Troy, a well known American artist who spent most of his life tricking people
around him just for the fun of it.

One winter in the 1920s, whilehe was a student at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., Troy got hold of an
old wastepaper basket with a real rhinoceros foot as its base. He filled it with metal weights and tied 30
feet of rope toeither side. Late one night he and a friend carried it out onto campus, suspended between
them. Every few feet they would lower it into the snow, their own footprints so far away as to raise nosuspicions.
The next morning someone noticed the prints and told the learned professors of his discovery. Excitedly,
they followed the rhinoceros tracks. The trail led out onto the ice covering BeebeLake, which connected
to the school’s source of drinking water. There the tracks ended in a gigantic hole. It is said that half the
population of Cornell stopped drinking tap water for some time.Those who continued to drink it tasted
like rhinoceros.

Rhinoceros lago
El humor no es algo exclusivo de ninguna cultura o profesión. Basta pensar en comodines y
embaucadores. Estos personajeshan existido siempre en todas las sociedades y en todos los ámbitos de la actividad humana. En el
primera parte del siglo XX, algunos chistes famosos que tuvieron lugar en diferentes partes delmundo y
en diferentes lugares tuvieron tanto éxito que se convirtieron en conceptos erróneos duraderos. Un buen ejemplo de
esto es proporcionado por Hugh Troy, un conocido artista norteamericano...