15 Jokes From the World's Oldest Jokebook
The oldest show jape — a anti-intellectual Sumerianquipstating " Something which has never occurred since sentence immemorial ; a young fair sex did not fart in her married man ’s lap"—dates back to 1900 BCE , eking out a pharaoh sally from Ancient Egypt by a solid three centuries . But to nobble one of the old joke in the book means dusting off thePhilogelos(meaning " Laughter Lover " ) , a Greek anthology of more than 200 jokesfromthe 4th or 5th century ....