What is the earliest recorded joke?

toronado · 6 days

From QI

The people responsible for the oldest joke in the world are the Sumerians in 1900 BC. It reads: "Something that has never occurred since time immemorial - a young woman did not fart on her husband's lap." Another old joke is a Greek joke about an absent-minded professor on a sea voyage when a storm occurs and his slaves start to panic. The professor says, "Don't cry, I have freed you all in my will." One group of people mocked by the Greeks were the Abderites, who they said were stupid. Joke 114 in the Philogelos says that an Abderite asks a eunuch how many children he has, to which the eunuch says he has none because he is a eunuch. The Abderite says something in return, but no-one knows what it is. Clive suggests: "How many grandchildren then?" An old English joke says the cleanest leaf is the holly leaf because no-one will wipe their arse with them.

clammind · 1 month

Does anyone know what was said?

bluegerm · 2 months

Fair Play to the lads, but I don't think TV3 realise Tallafornia Swipe was getting view from worldwide and not just Ireland.

JohnCthulhu · 2 months

acronym 'KRF'

FTFY initialism

illest-villain · 2 months

Not sure if its a Fr Ted reference or not, but it reminded me of my lovely horse

Iam_alwaysRIGHT · 2 months

It has actually gone up to €132 maximum per month because of the recession.

In England the maximum prescription charge is £7.40.

ramblerandgambler · 2 months

I agree with you but only because Irish (and most other countries prisons other than the rare Scandinavian model) prisons focus on retribution rather than rehabilitation.

kwip · 2 months

Club Conradh Na Gaeilge isn't wheelchair accessible though.

Gis_A_Maul · 3 months

The guy on the left doesn't understand law. That is not what common law is . Also a court order for repossession would be within the 'in accordance with law' aspect of inviolability of dwelling clause of the constitution. He sounded very very stupid to me, a lot of legal words coming out of his mouth without him understanding what any of them really meant or proper understanding of the legal system.

MattyBlayze · 3 months

Shaving in boxing is often sought as part of the contract (or rules as for as I am aware) as a beard prevents a clear definition of the chin and if you watch closely many (if not most) stand up knockouts are caused by a clear hit to the chin

roper1 · 3 months

I'll admit decapitation is unlikely, but suicide is the face of the enemy is not. Even with a weapon crafted in today's age it would be hard for a man to decapitate himself.

roper1 · 3 months

If you think about it they had already caught you as a criminal, they may only select the prisoners of whom they do know their family, and even if you did deflect and the other side won the battle, does not mean they won the war, your family would still be at risk.

roper1 · 3 months

By threatening to kill their family and/or many generations of their family. If you look it up it was a common punishment for some criminals in Asia. It is still in effect in North Korea.

happyblanchy · 3 months

At the moment, they obviously wouldn't cancel the contract before they had set up and that will not be done until the end of the year. On the radio the sky representative gave a vague political answer, saying he was happy with Abtran but he would not commit to saying they would keep them on after the new operation was set up.

happyblanchy · 3 months

But the company didn't confirm, if they would keep the contract with the company in Cork that are currently supplying some of the services the new Dublin base will provide.

maxwellhill · 3 months

Not if they make it a law.

CSSSS · 4 months

While I agree this should be fought, it may have been the announcement of the proposed statutory instrument. Within the Dail T.D.'s have a closed circuit system to every room giving a feed of both chambers of the Oireachtas and any committee room in session, so they don't have to be there when it is announced, the procedure of the houses may not have allowed time for them to debate the issue.

silver_medalist · 4 months

Or a job/internship interview and he may have had to be back for college.

buddyholly92 · 4 months

It was a cruise so it is possible that the kids where not near their parents ,either in a kids club type thing or just playing with other kids instead of hanging out with their parents for the whole holiday. I have not doubt the parents where fanatically looking for them.

photosonny · 4 months

Since they only let John grab the wrist, there is a magic trick in which you place a snooker ball in your armpit and squeeze it, it makes it appear as if you have no pulse, that is why the didn't show John trying to take the pulse from the artery in the neck. It would be a lot simpler and less dangerous than a drug that would slow the heart rate.

Often when a magician is doing the trick they will try get a nurse or doctor from the audience, and that participant would be fooled.

RageThat · 5 months

Ignorance of the law is never a defence.

CrazyAsian · 5 months

and upvote the top comment that corrects the unfortunate trickery.

DefaultPlayer · 5 months

He should have toasted digestives biscuits instead, and spread a nice layer of butter on them, then he would have been eating a tasty toasted biscuit.

clammind

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