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Offline ReardenSteel

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Fart joke (circa 1900 BC)
« on: July 31, 2008, 07:35:31 PM »
World's oldest joke traced back to 1900 BC
http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSL129052420080731

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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."

Well. There it is.

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"When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you - when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - you may know that your society is doomed."

- Ayn Rand
http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=1826

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Re: Fart joke (circa 1900 BC)
« Reply #1 on: July 31, 2008, 07:51:33 PM »
And what a funny joke that was!  :-) Those Iraqis, always a barrel of hoohahs.  :lmao:
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Re: Fart joke (circa 1900 BC)
« Reply #2 on: July 31, 2008, 07:58:27 PM »
And what a funny joke that was!  :-) Those Iraqis, always a barrel of hoohahs.  :lmao:

In other words, you don't get it?
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Re: Fart joke (circa 1900 BC)
« Reply #3 on: July 31, 2008, 08:01:55 PM »
And what a funny joke that was!  :-) Those Iraqis, always a barrel of hoohahs.  :lmao:

In other words, you don't get it?

I was being slightly silly.

They are saying that it has never happened that a wife has not farted on her husband's lap. Throw me a bone if I am incorrect.  :-)
“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.â€

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Re: Fart joke (circa 1900 BC)
« Reply #4 on: July 31, 2008, 08:04:15 PM »
And what a funny joke that was!  :-) Those Iraqis, always a barrel of hoohahs.  :lmao:

In other words, you don't get it?

I was being slightly silly.

They are saying that it has never happened that a wife has not farted on her husband's lap. Throw me a bone if I am incorrect.  :-)

Actually, as hot as it is here, my cerebral cells are fried.

I don't get it myself.
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Re: Fart joke (circa 1900 BC)
« Reply #5 on: July 31, 2008, 08:08:12 PM »
And what a funny joke that was!  :-) Those Iraqis, always a barrel of hoohahs.  :lmao:

In other words, you don't get it?

I was being slightly silly.

They are saying that it has never happened that a wife has not farted on her husband's lap. Throw me a bone if I am incorrect.  :-)

Actually, as hot as it is here, my cerebral cells are fried.

I don't get it myself.

Let's just go with my "take". It's a well-held secret that women never pass gas or they would like the guys to think they have not. I think the joke is spoofing on that myth.
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Re: Fart joke (circa 1900 BC)
« Reply #6 on: July 31, 2008, 08:31:34 PM »
And what a funny joke that was!  :-) Those Iraqis, always a barrel of hoohahs.  :lmao:

In other words, you don't get it?

I was being slightly silly.

They are saying that it has never happened that a wife has not farted on her husband's lap. Throw me a bone if I am incorrect.  :-)

Actually, as hot as it is here, my cerebral cells are fried.

I don't get it myself.

Let's just go with my "take". It's a well-held secret that women never pass gas or they would like the guys to think they have not. I think the joke is spoofing on that myth.


Well!

You two are going to have 'fart joke' charts and graphs, pie charts, brooing chemistry sets and Tesla coils before too long.  :rotf:

I just thought it was "silly".   :innocent:
"When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you - when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - you may know that your society is doomed."

- Ayn Rand
http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=1826