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35 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 17h \ on: Traffic into Manhattan down 7.5% in 1st week of new toll: 43,000 fewer cars/day news
One of the Futurama lines that really stuck with me was Fry explaining that no one drove in NYC because there's too much traffic.
Suddenly, this led me to chase down the origin of this quip. It's most famously attributed to Yogi Berra, who said, "Nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded." But the furthest back I could trace it after a 3 minute search was from 1882:
Yet, this joke has a long history, and it was already circulating before Berra was born. A thematic precursor about parties was published in 1882 in a London periodical called “The Nonconformist and Independent”. The comedy hinged on the impossibility of all the guests delaying attendance until all the other guests had already arrived:“I’m afraid you’ll be late at the party,” said an old lady to her stylish granddaughter, who replied, ” Oh, you dear grandma, don’t you know that in our fashionable set nobody ever goes to a party till everybody gets there?”
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