Why? Because we use them on a fairly regular basis
Stay around to answer questions or respond to comments. This applies to all questions, image, and blog posts. If you like wildlife the monkey mountain in Arashiyama is amazing and has a fantastic view of Kyoto. Joke books are not just a modern phenomenon, but look too far back into the past and you will struggle to find any that are at all funny to a modern reader. However, that does not mean that they cannot be of interest from a social history perspective. The Book of Modern English Anecdotes by Tom Hood, from 1860, is a good example, because...