“What’s the best thing for a hangover?”/“Drink loads the night before.”
A joke about hangovers is:
Q: What’s the best thing for a hangover?
A: Drink loads the night before.
The question really meant how to “cure” a hangover, but the answer provided how to “get” a hangover. The riddle was posted on the newsgroup alt.tasteless.jokes on March 14, 1997.
Google Groups: alt.tasteless.jokes
Err?
Joe Byrne
3/14/97
What’s the best thing for a hangover?
Drinking heavily the night before!
Google Groups: uk.media.tv.sf.startrek
I’ll have some of that
Derek O’Brien
12/15/99
(...)
Vyvyan and Mike, The Young Ones: “Mike, what’s the best thing for a hangover?” “Drinking heavily the night before.”
Google Books
Dangerous Conversation
By Paul Boland
Pittsburgh, PA: SterlingHouse
2001
Pg. 18:
His friend Ed’s favoritejoke played in his head: Q: What’s the best thing for a hangover? A: Drinking a lot the night before.
Google Books
Jokes for Blokes:
The Ultimate Book of Jokes not Suitable for Mixed Company
By Llewellyn Dowd and Phil McCracken
London, UK: Ebury Press
2011
Pg. 203:
What’s the best thing for a hangover? Drink loads the night before.
Shit Jokes
@ShitJokes
What’s the best thing for a hangover?
Drink loads the night before.
7:46 AM - 19 Mar 2017
Reddit—Jokes
What’s the best thing for a hangover?
submitted April 19, 2017 by CorsairVI
Drinking heavily the night before.