I see it as a workplace version of a lot of the underpinnings of Strunk & White's Elements of Style: Strive for clarity and unambiguity. Jokes are by definiti

I see it as a workplace version of a lot of the underpinnings of Strunk & White's Elements of Style: Strive for clarity and unambiguity. Jokes are by definition, the opposite of this. The humor of many jokes is found in the ambiguities of language and circumstance.