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08-01-2008, 08:39 PM #1
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World's oldest joke traced back to 1900 BC
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080731/od_nm/joke_odd_dc;_ylt=AnOHmQrMx_N1Rm8egokFkzEuQE4FLONDON (Reuters) - The world's oldest recorded joke has been traced back to 1900 BC and suggests toilet humor was as popular with the ancients as it is today.
It is a saying of the Sumerians, who lived in what is now southern Iraq and goes: "Something which has never occurred since time immemorial; a young woman did not fart in her husband's lap."
It heads the world's oldest top 10 joke list published by the University of Wolverhampton Thursday.
A 1600 BC gag about a pharaoh, said to be King Snofru, comes second -- "How do you entertain a bored pharaoh?............................
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08-01-2008, 08:53 PM #2
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Re: World's oldest joke traced back to 1900 BC
Sounds like Sumerian women were a little gassy.
I liked this one better:
The oldest British joke dates back to the 10th Century and reveals the bawdy face of the Anglo-Saxons -- "What hangs at a man's thigh and wants to poke the hole that it's often poked before? Answer: A key."Zeus wrote:
When are you going to realize that picking out the 20 bad throws this year and ignoring the 300 good ones does not make your point?
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08-01-2008, 08:57 PM #3
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Re: World's oldest joke traced back to 1900 BC
"NodakPaul" wrote:
Sounds like Sumerian women were a little gassy.
I liked this one better:
The oldest British joke dates back to the 10th Century and reveals the bawdy face of the Anglo-Saxons -- "What hangs at a man's thigh and wants to poke the hole that it's often poked before? Answer: A key."
Me too...those wild and crazy Anglo-Saxons. ;DAny man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood. - H.L. Mencken
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08-01-2008, 09:07 PM #4
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Re: World's oldest joke traced back to 1900 BC
clicking the link in the article lead me to this video:
http://uktv.co.uk/dave/video/aid/595060/searchArea/787/sr/37/csl/3/cst/Home|Dave|Totally%20Viral%202/mf/video/sb/recent
so i approveWe're bringing purple back.
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08-01-2008, 09:33 PM #5
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Re: World's oldest joke traced back to 1900 BC
some scantily clad models mucking around with meat
something about a pretty girl and a sausage that gets me thinking. ;DAny man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood. - H.L. Mencken
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08-02-2008, 09:44 AM #6
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Re: World's oldest joke traced back to 1900 BC
It's good to see that the humor on pp.o hasn't progressed one iota since 1900 B.C....girl jokes and toilet humor can all be traced back to the very earliest jokes identified in this research."...Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. Mark Twain
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