Chestnut of the Day ....

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(Definition first: Chestnut is a British slang term for an old joke, often as old chestnut.


A plausible explanation for the term given by the Oxford English Dictionary is that it originates from a play named "The Broken Sword" by William Dimond in which one character keeps repeating the same stories, one of them about a cork tree, and is interrupted each time by another character who says: Chestnut, you mean . . . I have heard you tell the joke twenty-seven times and I am sure it was a chestnut.


The play was first performed in 1816, but the term did not come into widespread usage until the 1880s.)


Now the "chestnut" -


What kind of coat can be put on only when wet?


A coat of paint.


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