[Eric]

Originally Posted by garinda

I'm always amazed at the speed with which jokes fly across the world, minutes after something horrible has happening.

Do they all sit in a big room somewhere, watching live news streams, fingers poised on their keyboards?

Oh no!

I'm a conspiracy theorist.

Maybe it all has to do with visitors from the future; someone like George Kilroy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Message_(short_story)