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Date: January 06, 2012 11:49PM
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_does_that_old_chestnut_mean"A stale joke, story, or saying, as in Dad keeps on telling that old chestnut about how many psychiatrists it takes to change a light bulb. This expression comes from William Dimond's play, The Broken Sword (1816), in which one character keeps repeating the same stories, one of them about a cork tree, and is interrupted each time by another character who says "Chestnut, you mean . . . I have heard you tell the joke twenty-seven times and I am sure it was a chestnut.""
Sounds like an apt description for the bom.