World's Oldest Recorded Joke
Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 1:32 pm
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Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 1:38 pm
I don't get it.
Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 1:42 pm
No doubt it is LiT. Perhaps you have to be Sumerian to fully appreciate it.
Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 1:46 pm
You mean, it's not, "Take my concubine, please?"
Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 1:49 pm
HAR, HAR, HAR! HAR, HAR, HAR!
It's just as funny to me now as it was 3900 years ago....
It's just as funny to me now as it was 3900 years ago....
Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 1:50 pm
Interestingly enough, the three jokes on that link were written by Robert Byrd, Robert Dole, and John McCain.
I got the poke joke easily, but those first two were way over my head.
I got the poke joke easily, but those first two were way over my head.
Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 1:55 pm
A 1600 BC gag about a pharaoh, said to be King Snofru, comes second -- "How do you entertain a bored pharaoh? You sail a boatload of young women dressed only in fishing nets down the Nile and urge the pharaoh to go catch a fish."
This Bored pharaoh would prefer PYRAMIDS!!!!!!!!
Then I'll do some fishing....
This Bored pharaoh would prefer PYRAMIDS!!!!!!!!
Then I'll do some fishing....
Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 2:54 pm
They lose something in the translation.
Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 2:59 pm
Oh, those wacky Sumerians!
The one about the pharoah isn't really a joke, is it?
The one about the pharoah isn't really a joke, is it?
Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 7:01 pm
I get all of them, I just don't think they're funny. Or maybe I don't get them and, if I did, they'd be funny.
Here is the funniest joke in the known universe:
How much do you charge a pirate for corn?
Ha!
The oldest joke I know is the first one I remember my dad telling. All of us kids thought it was high-larious for years. Stop me if you've heard it....
There's a buzzard, a turtle and a rabbit. They buy a little patch of land and decide to plant a garden and make some money selling vegetables. They realize they're going to need fertilizer, so the rabbit sets off to buy some manure. While he's gone, the buzzard and the turtle start digging and strike oil! By the time the rabbit gets back, there's a huge mansion with a big oil well out back.
He goes up to the door, sets down his bag of manure and rings the bell. A butler answers, sniffs and wrinkles his nose.
Then the rabbit says, "Where's Buzzard?"
"Mr. Buzz-ard is out in the yard."
"Where's Turtle?"
"Mr. Tur-tell is down by the well."
"So go tell them that Mr. Rab-bit is here with the shit."
There were three of us and my dad used to call us Buzzard, Turtle and Rabbit.
Here is the funniest joke in the known universe:
How much do you charge a pirate for corn?
Spoiler
A buck an ear.
The oldest joke I know is the first one I remember my dad telling. All of us kids thought it was high-larious for years. Stop me if you've heard it....
There's a buzzard, a turtle and a rabbit. They buy a little patch of land and decide to plant a garden and make some money selling vegetables. They realize they're going to need fertilizer, so the rabbit sets off to buy some manure. While he's gone, the buzzard and the turtle start digging and strike oil! By the time the rabbit gets back, there's a huge mansion with a big oil well out back.
He goes up to the door, sets down his bag of manure and rings the bell. A butler answers, sniffs and wrinkles his nose.
Then the rabbit says, "Where's Buzzard?"
"Mr. Buzz-ard is out in the yard."
"Where's Turtle?"
"Mr. Tur-tell is down by the well."
"So go tell them that Mr. Rab-bit is here with the shit."
There were three of us and my dad used to call us Buzzard, Turtle and Rabbit.
Spoiler
I was Buzzard.