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RESPONSIBILITY AND FAULT When you’re trying to decide who to sue for your injuries in an accident, it’s best to consult your personal injury attorney. Your lawyer can help you investigate the crash and decide who to bring claims against for the accident. But there are different factors to consider in Texas and New Mexico law regarding fault. BUT WHAT IF YOU ARE FOUND PARTIALLY AT FAULT? If you are found by the court to be partially at fault for the accident, you can still recover the other driver’s percentage of liability. For example, let’s say you are found to be 20% at fault and the other driver is found to be 80% at fault. If the jury were to return a $10,000 verdict, then you could recover 80%, or $8,000, of the jury award from the other driver.
Unless you’re living under a rock, odds are you’ve laughed, grumbled, or groaned in response to a knock-knock joke. You may have even told a few yourself before you realized knock-knock jokes had gone out of style in favor of sarcasm and memes. That’s because at their core, knock-knock jokes are a quintessential American experience — and the perfect homegrown fodder for International Joke Day, which falls on July 1. But where did they come from, and why do so many people knock the knock-knock joke today? Well, according to NPR, knock-knock jokes have had a roller coaster of a history. Near as we can tell, they actually evolved from another kind of joke: the “Do You Know” joke. This style of joke was popular in the early 1900s, and according to an Oakland Tribune article NPR dug up, this was a typical one:
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Not very funny, is it? Well, over the years this style of back-and-forth jesting evolved into knock-knock jokes. The popularity of the “knock knock” bit of the joke could harken back to Shakespeare, who BestLife credits with “the first-known occurrence of a knock knock, who’s-there dialogue” in Act 2 of “Macbeth” (though it likely wasn’t intended to be funny), or it could be a reference to 1936 vice presidential hopeful Frank Knox, whose name made “knock knock” irresistible wordplay for the radio. Whatever the reason, knock knocks were all the rage in the 1930s, to the extent that people formed knock- knock clubs, businesses held knock-knock contests, and orchestras set them to music. However, the heyday was short-lived. In the following years, people started getting sick of knock knocks, and even psychologists turned against them. According to NPR,
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“people who loved knock-knock jokes were said to have social problems.” Today, knock-knock jokes are still around, but they’re
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