For Mr. Grey

[Surf314]

If you need help coming up with some new material check this out:

http://www.stoa.org/diotima/anthology/quinn_jokes.shtml

Jokes from circa 500 AD.  Post the gems you find below.

[MrGrey]

this is great, thanks bud... ive already been enhancing my caveman skit and working on "past" humor and this just gave me a bunch of great ideas so thanks again.  The ones I like so far are the following:

#64. An intellectual bought a pair of pants. But he could hardly put them on because they were too tight. So he got rid of the hair around his legs.[5]

#69. An intellectual checked in on the parents of a dead classmate. The father was wailing: "O son, you have left me a cripple!" The mother was crying: "O son, you have taken the light from my eyes!" Later, the intellectual suggested to his friends: "If he were guilty of all that, he should have been cremated while still alive."

#70. An intellectual came to check in on a friend who was seriously ill. When the man's wife said that he had 'departed', the intellectual replied: "When he arrives back, will you tell him that I stopped by?"

[cannedpeahes]

The Greeks: apparently not good at comedic timing.

[Surf314]

The Greeks: apparently not good at comedic timing.

For some reason they feel the need to explain the joke.  Maybe they are afraid the emporer or whatever ruler at the time will have them execute if they don't get it.

There were some ones I laughed at though.  Apparently they're shit at jokes but pretty good at insults.

[ToiletDuck]

There were some ones I laughed at though.  Apparently they're shit at jokes but pretty good at insults.

especially against grandmothers and hernias

[Benito Mussolini]

[quote author=peaches link=topic=1773.msg49557#msg49557 date=1226608180]
The Greeks: apparently not good at comedic timing.

For some reason they feel the need to explain the joke.  Maybe they are afraid the emporer or whatever ruler at the time will have them execute if they don't get it.

There were some ones I laughed at though.  Apparently they're shit at jokes but pretty good at insults.
[/quote]

I am pretty sure the emporer(sic) or whatever ruler didn't mind that much, Surf...

Have you ever taken history classes?

[Surf314]

[quote author=Surf314 link=topic=1773.msg49559#msg49559 date=1226608442]
[quote author=peaches link=topic=1773.msg49557#msg49557 date=1226608180]
The Greeks: apparently not good at comedic timing.

For some reason they feel the need to explain the joke.  Maybe they are afraid the emporer or whatever ruler at the time will have them execute if they don't get it.

There were some ones I laughed at though.  Apparently they're shit at jokes but pretty good at insults.
[/quote]

I am pretty sure the emporer(sic) or whatever ruler didn't mind that much, Surf...

Have you ever taken history classes?
[/quote]

Oh come on like it was ever really a democracy.  Plus the cities were pretty independant from each other.  And in case you don't remember they had an obscenely rigid class structure.  Also if you weren't reading the whole site they had awful censors.

[CaffeinePowered]

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3085389.html?menu=

Relevant

[MrGrey]

lol i love the evolution of humor... it fascinates me, also love how they call them "intellectuals"

[Surf314]

Someone needled a jokester: "I had your wife, without paying a dime." He replied: "It's my duty as a husband to couple with such a monstrosity. What made you do it?'

Zing

A misogynist had a wife who never stopped talking or arguing. When she died, he had her body carried on a shield to the cemetery. When someone noticed this and asked him why, he replied: "She was a fighter."

Pow

[MrGrey]

Someone needled a jokester: "I had your wife, without paying a dime." He replied: "It's my duty as a husband to couple with such a monstrosity. What made you do it?'

Zing

A misogynist had a wife who never stopped talking or arguing. When she died, he had her body carried on a shield to the cemetery. When someone noticed this and asked him why, he replied: "She was a fighter."

Pow

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