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- From: ruthc@sco.COM (cross index)
- Subject: Re: Ancient jokes
- Organization: The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
- Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1992 20:32:33 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov14.203233.3273@sco.com>
- Summary: repost of ancient Egyptian joke
- References: <1992Nov5.182658.22105@welchgate.welch.jhu.edu> <2786@tymix.Tymnet.COM> <1992Nov13.095514.23658@mic.ucla.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov13.095514.23658@mic.ucla.edu> brims@bnkl01.astro.ucla.edu (George Brims) writes:
- >Anyone remember any OLDER jokes?
-
- OK, here's the oldest joke I've ever seen (hmm, and I got it
- from rec.humor, too):
-
- From: mjd@saul.cis.upenn.edu (Messiah of the Accursed)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,rec.humor
- Subject: OLDEST JOKES in the WORLD, part 1
- Organization: Eaters of Wisdom
-
- A noble with the head of an ibis-bird enters an establishment
- a few leaugues north of Heliopolis, wherein beverages are commonly
- served, and requests of the shaven slave therein beer, made red with
- the red ocher mud from the banks of the Nile. The crafty slave,
- seeing an opportunity to have an easy profit at the noble's expense,
- serves the beer and names as his price three talents of barley. The
- ibis-headed one blinks in surprise but calls in his slaves with sacks
- of barley to pay the requested sum, and drinks his beer. The serving
- slave, gleeful, but unable to restrain his curiousity, remarks that a
- manifestation of the god Thoth has not passed that way since ancient
- times. The ibis-headed god (for it is indeed he) suggests that he
- might be inclined to manifest himself more frequently in that locale
- were not the price of beer in the province so high.
-
- [Translated from a manuscript dated 2274 B.C.]
-
- THEY CALL ME "e. wallis budge" ANDY R.
-
-
- heh!
-
- -r
- --
- "I gave davidv 25 cents for a line he said in isis staff today comparing
- software to drugs, 'that first line of code is free...'" -ruthc
- "ha ha, that's great! who's .sig is it going to show up in first?" -maryk
- "well, I guess it should be mine, after all, I paid for it." -ruthc
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