One morning, somewhere during the middle ages, a military captain sat in his tent pouring over maps when a young man enters. The captain looks up and recognizes the young man as the sentry from the night before.
"Yes. What have you for me?", asks the captain.
The sentry goes on to explain how he had had a dream the previous night that barbarians would attack the encampment from the north.
The captain, not being a superstitious man considered it and decided to increase the number of men on watch for the upcoming night anyway because one can never be too careful.
That night, barbarians came from the north to attack the soldiers, and because of the increased watch, the attack was foiled.
The next day a party was held to celebrate the victory and everyone was there except for the sentry who had warned the captain. He was not there because the captain had put him in jail. Why?
2006-10-17 01:21:16 · 28 answers · asked by ssolloss 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Jokes & Riddles
Because he fell asleep when he should've been watching guard?
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2006-10-17 01:28:39 · answer #1 · answered by fat_arse 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
In the middle ages they were very wary of anything that could be explained as a form of witch craft. The captain thought that the sentry was a witch so he put him in jail. The thought in the middle ages was that any form of witchcraft would bring evil. Because they were in a battle, their evil were the barbarians. The sentry in jail was thought of cursing them in a way of having the barbarians come.
2006-10-17 01:32:48 · answer #2 · answered by kittycat_cc14 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well it could be that if the barbarians took the opportunity to attack whilst everyone was having a party then it would be wise to have the gifted sentry safe from the battle in jail.
2006-10-17 01:31:22 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
because he did want people to know that won because of the sentry, he wanted people to think that he was a good captain and that he was always ready for attacks.
2006-10-17 02:10:23 · answer #4 · answered by jasmine!!!! 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There was no such thing as "barbarians during the middle ages. In fact they is a lot of errors in that joke if you know your history.
2006-10-17 02:17:02 · answer #5 · answered by fr2fish 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
so that when he attacks the barbarians the sentry should not inform them
2006-10-17 01:52:27 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
because he said that he had a dream of the barbarians that were coming so it must have met that he was sleeping instead of being on watch.
2006-10-17 01:29:53 · answer #7 · answered by bobafett92872 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
That's an easy one: he was arrested for sleeping while on duty! Otherwise he couldn't have had a dream while on watch...
2006-10-17 01:35:11 · answer #8 · answered by dragonwing 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because he was asleep the night before
2006-10-17 01:31:46 · answer #9 · answered by Mike J 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sleeping on the job.
2006-10-17 01:31:34 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋