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The author says he never told jokes to start class because he couldn't think of a relevant and funny joke.
I think that is funny, because the point of the The Economic Naturalist is that everything (at least, everything social or human) is relevant to economics.
He points out the ineffective way that economics is usually taught, and suggests an alternative way, which is familiar to economists:
learning by doing