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Oldest Jokes

Posted on the August 1st, 2008 under Life by papabear

I was surfing a local newspaper site and came across this interesting article about the world’s oldest joke that can be traced back to 1900 BC. The article talks about how jokes have been recorded from a long time ago and toilet humor was as popular with the ancients as it is today.

People have been making fun of leaders such as pharaohs and kings as well as mythical monsters for ages. I guess we are still happily doing that today.

There is also a link to an article from Dave from UKTV. In there, 10 world’s oldest jokes are listed and here are the three, two from Dave and one from the news site, that I like best:

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