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So, my childhood friend Neal was seeped in old tradition [Jul. 31st, 2008|03:44 pm]
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LONDON (Reuters Life!) - The world's oldest recorded joke has been traced back to 1900 BC and suggests that toilet humor was as popular with the ancients as it is today.

It is a saying of the Sumerians, who lived in what is now southern Iraq and goes: "Something which has never occurred since time immemorial; a young woman did not fart in her husband's lap."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080731/lf_nm_life/britain_joke_dc
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[User Picture]From: [info]evilpassion8
2008-07-31 08:46 pm (UTC)

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In days of old
when knights were bold
and toilets not invented
they dumped their load
beside the road
and walked away contented.

~~grafitti seen on walk-through tunnel from
CSC crystal city office to Pentagon, circa 1983
[User Picture]From: [info]malle_babbe
2008-08-01 04:59 am (UTC)

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So an Assyrian, a eunuch, and a temple harlot walk into a bar...

I wonder what the Sumerian word for "fart" was. Because I'm 12.