Ancient Humor

[oldhouseman]

Oldest joke in Britian...what hangs at a mans thigh...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukn...st-jokes-revealed-by-university-research.html

 

[toggleswitch2]

OK now THAT was funny!

"Lost civilisations laughed at farts, sex, and "stupid people" just as we do today, Dr McDonald said".

 

[sudsmaster]

I get the olde English joke.

But the very oldest one, a Sumerian one from 1900 BC, sort of escapes me.

It goes something like this: "From time immmemorial it has been the case: a young woman has never farted in her husband's lap".

Maybe something was lost in translation.