World’s Oldest Profession

Nope, it’s not the one you’re thinking.  Here’s a joke that I heard from my dad a few years ago.  It was so bad that I actually laughed:

A surgeon, an architect, and an economist were having lunch together.  They got into a debate about the primacy of their professions.  The surgeon argued, “In Genesis, God created Eve from Adam’s rib.  That required surgery, so clearly, my profession is the oldest in the world.”

The architect retorted, “Well, even before that, the Bible says that God made the entire universe, creating order out of chaos.  Surely God was an architect before He was a surgeon!”

That’s when the economist laughed, “Ha!–who do you think caused the chaos?”

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