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But seriously folks

The busier you are, the more you need to waste time. Today, facing numerous pressing tasks, I started from a link at aldaily.com and found my way to an ancient Greek joke book, the oldest known & extant one, which actually can be read on-line here.

Samples of ancient Greek humor, which certainly ought to make us feel better about our own comic tradition, include the following:

An Abderite saw a eunuch talking to a woman and asked if she was his wife. When he replied that eunuchs can?t have wives, the Abderite asked, ?So is she your daughter then???

An egg-head doctor was seeing a patient. ?Doctor?, he said, ?when I get up in the morning I feel dizzy for 20 minutes.? ?Get up 20 minutes later, then.?

A student dunce is voyaging on a very stormy sea. When his slaves start to wail, he tells them; "Don't worry - in my will I set you all free!"

Cultural overlap notwithstanding (since the Greeks are our precursors), the human genome must have a sequence somewhere for corny jokes.

Full post as published by Start Making Sense on February 24, 2009 (boomark / email).