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dantheclamman@lemmy.worldM to Wikipedia@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months ago

Philogelos (the world's oldest book of jokes)

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dantheclamman@lemmy.worldM to Wikipedia@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months ago
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  • crimeschneck∈🇩🇪⊂🇪🇺@feddit.nl
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    #247A. A misogynist paid his last respects at the tomb of his dead wife. When someone asked him, “Who has gone to rest?,” he replied: “Me, now that I’m alone.”

    https://web.archive.org/web/20190402114641if_/http://www.stoa.org/diotima/anthology/quinn_jokes.shtml

    Wife bad.

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      Greeks: highbrow in philosophy, drama, literature, mathematics. But humor more at Larry the Cable Guy level

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    So now we can settle what the oldest trick in the book is.

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