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World's Oldest Jokes

Aug 01, 2008 13:16

World's Oldest JokesA team of academics were tasked to research the world's oldest examples of recorded humour. Led by humour expert Dr Paul McDonald from the University of Wolverhampton, the team spent two months trawling the annals of history to produce the first report of its kind into the world's oldest recorded jokes ( Read more... )

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q99 August 1 2008, 18:29:53 UTC
Yea, depending on the style of legal code. Or more specifically, the owner of the cow owns the calf but is responsible for the load and the calf would be one fair way of paying that :)

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q99 August 1 2008, 19:50:17 UTC
But they themselves are considered owned, so the calf's ownership would be it's owners owners, aka the two humans :)

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q99 August 2 2008, 07:40:51 UTC
I wonder when the first militerized joke was invented...

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