A man walks into a French book store and asks for a copy of the constitution
Posted by Funtimefoxys_wife@reddit | Jokes | View on Reddit | 11 comments
The bookseller responds "im sorry monsieur we don't carry periodicals"
JimDixon@reddit
You could Americanize this joke. The guy asks for a copy of the American constitution and the bookseller says: "We don't carry fiction."
cpeosphoros@reddit
I just spit my tongue out coffee... Lol.
gilfromisrael@reddit
Please explain
NycteaScandica@reddit
Since the French Revolution there has been the monarchy (that was deposed), the 1st Republic, the 1st Empire (Napoleon), the monarchy again, the 2nd Republic, 2nd Empire (Naoleon III), then the 3rd Republic, the 4th Republic and the current 5th Republic.
Over the course of 350 years or so that's significant, but not that bad, really.
The US has had only 2 constitutions over its entire existence (and the first, the Articles of Confederation) didn’t last long and were unworkable.
cpeosphoros@reddit
Not to be that much picky on a Jokes subreddit, depending on which legal theory you affiliate, the US may have had any number of Constitutions from 2 to a couple dozens. No hyperboles.
Loko8765@reddit
The Amendments would like a word, though.
BillWilberforce@reddit
They only got the current one in the 1960s andby de facto, the EU keeps changing the constitution.
profspalding@reddit
My understanding of the joke was that the French constitution changes so often that the bookseller considers it a periodical. Idk how often the French constitution changes though, the joke might be relying on hyperbole
Dranask@reddit
Indeed this is the 5th French Republic.
TinyNiceWolf@reddit
Does the bookstore put books on menstruation in the periodicals section?
Dranask@reddit
Indeed this is the 5th French Republic.