was (allegedly) used to gauge incipient lunacy in an asylum, depending on how long it took the subject to see why it is funny.
How long did it take you? In another "Skier"-insanity legend, Addams himself would periodically suffer mental breakdowns at the New Yorker, his employer, and begin drawing and redrawing "The Skier," at which point he would be carted off to the nut house.
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