So it’s July 4th night, and all of the dead presidents are gathered around a campfire for a party. They’re drinking, eating, and having a good time when President Washington puts President Lincoln on the spot.
“Hey, Lincoln, do your thing!” asks Washington.
“What thing?” Lincoln asks. “What is it?”
“Lincoln, do the thing!” Washington says. The speech, address or whatever! “You know what I’m talking about!!!!”
“Oh, yeah, the speech,” Lincoln says. That thing, yes. I’m afraid I can’t. “I can’t recall the words.”
“What do you mean you can’t remember the words?” exclaimed Washington. “You’ve given the speech a million times!!! You’ve got that like burned in your brain, right?!!”
Lincoln says, “Well, yeah, normally, sure, I’ve got it memorized, but that was four s’mores and seven beers ago!!!”
Explanation: This joke is a playful mashup of American history and modern campfire humor. It riffs on Lincoln’s famous line “Four score and seven years ago…” from the Gettysburg Address.
At the campfire, Lincoln humorously slurs it into “four s’mores and seven beers ago,” suggesting he’s had too many drinks and snacks to remember his speech, turning a solemn moment into a tipsy punchline.
