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Jesus was a really good dude whose corpse was almost certainly eaten by wilds dogs.

Or we have to believe a Roman governor who had a history of being nasty to the Jews allowed an insurrectionist to have a decent burial when generally the point of crucifixion was humiliation, and corpses were often left to rot on the cross for some time, conspicuously warning others who might be having ideas.

But then we also have to believe that a member of the same Jewish Sanhedrin who unanimously agreed to arrest Jesus was also secretly a follower but not so secretly that he didn’t petition that same Roman governor to let him bury the guy he’d just demanded be executed.

So his body probably got eaten by them dogs.

There is a certain wink at the camera implied in most dad jokes (at least in this dad’s) that I think is replaced with seeming earnestness in this example and in the vein that I’m thinking, but maybe I’m quibbling because I don’t want to have just “reinvented” dad jokes in my comment.

In my expert opinion, it is a science meme.

I don’t really have much to add but feel compelled to say that I really enjoy this type of comedy. Maybe there is already a name for it but I think of it as observational absurdism, or Incorrect Shower Thoughts.

I rarely laugh out loud at it, but it makes me smile extra big to consider it.

I love the idea of someone making a remark based on an absurdly incorrect observation or premise, and as a bonus, this type of comedy rarely has a “target”: it isn’t punch down or up. It’s punching itself if anything.