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The world's oldest jokes revealed by university research
The Telegraph ^
| 8/1/2008
| Stephen Adams
Posted on 07/31/2008 7:55:23 PM PDT by bruinbirdman
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To: bruinbirdman
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posted on
07/31/2008 7:57:31 PM PDT
by
Steely Tom
(Without the second, the rest are just politicians' BS.)
To: bruinbirdman
I have heard others like this, in a Medieval Studies class. It’s amazing what those monks wrote! Clever, sex-deprived guys!
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posted on
07/31/2008 7:58:39 PM PDT
by
Gondring
(I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
To: bruinbirdman
"Something which has never occurred since time immemorial; a young woman did not fart in her husband's lap."Those Sumerians, I tell ya, Johnny, they haven't met my ex!
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posted on
07/31/2008 7:59:15 PM PDT
by
Revolting cat!
(Are you ready to pray for Teddy?)
To: bruinbirdman
1000 year old joke is the oldest joke? Everyone before them must of been really boring.
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posted on
07/31/2008 8:00:43 PM PDT
by
Steve Van Doorn
(*in my best Eric cartman voice* 'I love you guys')
To: bruinbirdman
"Man is even more eager to copulate than a donkey - his purse is what restrains him" Hey, they stole that bit from Don Rickles!
Great post. Many thanks.
To: bruinbirdman
I’m glad humor has evolved over the years. Of course, if your life was as brutish, diseased and short as theirs was, anything to laugh about must have been good.
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posted on
07/31/2008 8:02:36 PM PDT
by
WorkingClassFilth
(Don't cheer for Obama too hard - the krinton syndicate is moving back into the WH.)
To: bruinbirdman
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posted on
07/31/2008 8:03:25 PM PDT
by
Gondring
(I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
To: bruinbirdman
Why did the chicken cross the road?
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To lick the lady’s leg!
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posted on
07/31/2008 8:06:06 PM PDT
by
Grizzled Bear
("Does not play well with others.")
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
07/31/2008 8:07:12 PM PDT
by
Perdogg
To: Gondring
monks were the forefathers of computer programmers.
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posted on
07/31/2008 8:08:38 PM PDT
by
Perdogg
To: bruinbirdman
This one goes way back:
How do you breaketh a Phillistine’s finger?
You puncheth him in the nose.
(Stole that from an old Mad Magazine...)
To: SunkenCiv
To: bruinbirdman
Steve North, from Dave television, said: "What is interesting about these ancient jokes is that they feature the same old stand up comedy subjects: relationships, toilet humour and sex jokes.What would Jerry Seinfeld have sounded like 3000 years ago?
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To: bruinbirdman
The world's oldest jokes revealed by university research
One older than that was when Jesus was replying to Jews who claimed Abraham as their father and he said that "From these stones God can raise up children to Abraham." He wasn't referring to cobblestones in the roadway.
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posted on
07/31/2008 8:13:50 PM PDT
by
aruanan
To: bruinbirdman
To: bruinbirdman
There aren’t any older, unfunny jokes than those that Bob Hope as a standup comedian told.
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posted on
07/31/2008 8:16:13 PM PDT
by
Revolting cat!
(Are you ready to pray for Teddy?)
To: bruinbirdman
A funny thing happened on the way to the Acropolis.......
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posted on
07/31/2008 8:18:30 PM PDT
by
exit82
(People get the government they deserve--and they are about to get it --in spades.)
To: exit82
Take my concubine, please....
Thank you very much. I’m here until the XVth.
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posted on
07/31/2008 8:20:14 PM PDT
by
exit82
(People get the government they deserve--and they are about to get it --in spades.)
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