this post was submitted on 14 Jul 2023
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

How we laughed, and the scribes did record our mirth with sharpened reeds pressed into clay, this baked hard for future reference.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

🤣🤣🤣 a classic 👍

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/duckroll maybe?
but maybe i am too young (2002) for identifing old memes

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

sorry op beats you by roughly 2000 years...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

thanks for letting me know ^^

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's the oldest known joke in the world. However, no one understands the punchline.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

isn't there a theory that it's a pun based on Sumerian taverns also being brothels? like, "I can't see, i'll open a widow" but they still dont understand why it's a dog