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| November 14, 2008
Posted on 11/13/2008 8:25:45 AM PST by JoeProBono
A DIRECT ancestor of Monty Python's renowned "Dead Parrot" sketch has been found in a book of jokes dating back to Greece in the fourth century AD. A new English translation of Philogelos: The Laugh Addict contains a joke in which a man complains that a slave he has just bought has died.
"By the gods," answers the slave's seller, "when he was with me, he never did any such thing."
In the Python sketch, written 16 centuries later, the shopkeeper claims the parrot, a "Norwegian Blue," is not dead, but just "pining for the fjords."
(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...
TOPICS: History; Humor
KEYWORDS: godsgravesglyphs; jokes
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To: Moonman62
another (English translation) of an ancient bon mot: “You ask me how my farm can pay, since little it will bear / it pays me thus; it’s far away, and you are never there.”
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posted on
11/13/2008 3:07:24 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______Profile finally updated Saturday, October 11, 2008 !!!)
To: Moonman62
"Why would that make him a misogynist?"
Dunno
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posted on
11/13/2008 3:10:03 PM PST
by
JoeProBono
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To: JoeProBono
What happened to that poor girl’s right arm?
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
11/13/2008 3:24:10 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
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posted on
11/13/2008 3:26:19 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
"What happened to that poor girls right arm?"
Runnin with a mysogynist
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posted on
11/13/2008 3:27:14 PM PST
by
JoeProBono
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To: JoeProBono
A good read of Aristophanes will make a lot of that clear... The Frogs comes to mind...as does Lysistrata....
To: JoeProBono
The Earl of Oxford in the court of Queen Elizabeth I accidentally broke wind in “the presence” of the Queen.
He went into self imposed exile from court for seven years.
When he came back to court Queen Elizabeth remarked “No need to have stayed gone so long, we had all quite forgotten about the fart.”
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posted on
11/13/2008 3:37:03 PM PST
by
allmendream
(Wealth is EARNED not distributed.... so how could it be Redistributed?)
To: SunkenCiv
Baby got back
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posted on
11/13/2008 3:42:31 PM PST
by
JoeProBono
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To: SunkenCiv
Proverbs 21:9 Better to live on a corner of the roof than share a house with a quarrelsome wife.
Proverbs 21:19 Better to live in a desert than with a quarrelsome and ill-tempered wife.
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posted on
11/13/2008 3:44:08 PM PST
by
Moonman62
(The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
To: allmendream
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posted on
11/13/2008 3:58:04 PM PST
by
JoeProBono
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To: JoeProBono
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posted on
11/13/2008 4:10:06 PM PST
by
oldfart
(Obama nation = abomination. Think about it!)
To: Moonman62
“Better to live in an attic with a quarrelsome wife than in Attica without one”
Anon
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posted on
11/13/2008 4:18:35 PM PST
by
JoeProBono
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To: JoeProBono
She gnawed it off to get away from him.
Good choice!
To: SunkenCiv; All
“it pays me thus, it’s far away, and you are never there”
This reminds me of the place at the Jersey shore near Atlantic City that my father was renovating. It was far from my rather difficult mother who was living in north Jersey. One day at the marina a guy commented to my husband, “I have never seen a guy work as hard as your father-in-law” Another wag commented “He must have a nagging wife.” My husband nearly sputtered out a mouthful of coffee, and we had a good laugh when he came home and told me the story.
To: gleeaikin
Thanks for sharing your story
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posted on
11/13/2008 6:35:32 PM PST
by
JoeProBono
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To: JoeProBono
Is this series of pix like the "spot the ball" challenge. Are we to figure who farted?
My money's on Prince Philip.
In the top pic, Will is reacting, as grandpa smirks, Charles acts as though he has heard something.
In the middle pic, Will is getting a good whiff, and the prince and princes are looking toward the perp, who now looks proud of his action
In the bottom, they are reacting to the Queen being assailed by the escaped gas.
Do I win something?
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posted on
11/13/2008 9:09:38 PM PST
by
Former Dodger
( "Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." --Einstein)
To: Former Dodger
CONGRADULATIONS!!! Your prize is in the mail
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posted on
11/13/2008 10:16:04 PM PST
by
JoeProBono
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