So I says to Parthenopeus…
The Toronto Star is reporting that a joke book from the times of Constantine has been released onto the Internet as an e-Book.
It’s called Philogelos: The Laugh Addict.
If you don’t want to read the article, the gist is that we’ve been laughing about the same jokes for a really long time, just changing the subject matter.
Here’s a sample joke (and quote from the aforementioned article):
Stop me if you’ve heard this one: A man complains that the slave he has recently purchased has died. “By the gods,’ says the slave’s former owner, “when he was with me, he never did any such thing.”
While I legitimately think that this kind of thing is totally awesome, I can’t help but laugh about a few things:
1) Someone translated a Greek joke book. AMAZING!
2) The article about this 4th Century Greek joke book is like 1000 words long! There is just so much to say about this!
One more joke:
Can you lend me your knife until Smyrna?
Sorry, I don’t have one that reaches that far.
Baddaboom!
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When I read this I picture greek guys sitting around in a bath wearing those golden, leafy, head things (someone help me out here). One of them tells the slave joke and silence falls over the group. Then a quiet chuckle emerges from one of the bathers. Soon the entire groups is gallantly laughing at the dead slave. Through the laughter you can barely hear someone say, “you gotta write that one down!”
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