"Why is this acknowledgment famous, anyway? I don't think it is very funny." Maybe because other people do find it funny? When I first read it a few years ago

"Why is this acknowledgment famous, anyway? I don't think it is very funny." Maybe because other people do find it funny? When I first read it a few years ago I was laughing my ass off, and forwarded it to the usual people in my "forward funny shit to" list. I imagine several of them did the same. "YMMV" So... you answered your own question?