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Joe Miller (n.)
"stale joke," 1816, from
Joseph Miller
(1684-1738), a comedian, whose name was affixed after his death to a popular jest-book, "Joe Miller's jests, or the Wit's Vade-mecum" (1739) compiled by John Mottley.