Corrected entry: When Grandpa returns from "India," he tells a story about how he shot an elephant in his pajamas, then mutters "You've heard it before." Clearly this is a joke he's told the family several times already. In fact, it's a paraphrase of a very famous Groucho Marx line from the Marx Brothers' movie "Animal Crackers." However, "Animal Crackers" wasn't released until 1931, nearly two decades after the story takes place, so there's no way Grandpa could possibly have known that joke.
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Correction: He's a senile old man. It's not likely a joke he tells, but rather a story he's told them numerous times. Either way, this is a fictional world; if, in that world, that man is meant to have used that joke twenty years before it was popularized in the real world, then that's not a mistake.
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