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The oldest surviving collection of jokes is the Byzantine Philogelos from the first millennium. [2] In Western Europe, the medieval fabliau [3] and the Arab/Italian novella [4] built up a large body of humorous tales; but it was only with the Facetiae of Poggio (1451) that the anecdote first appears rendered down into joke form (with prominent punchline) in an early modern collection.
Although the Philogelos is the oldest surviving joke book, there are known to be prior joke books that have since become lost.Athenaeus wrote in the Deipnosophistae that Philip II of Macedon paid for a social club in Athens to write down its members' jokes for him, and joke books are mentioned by characters in Persa and Stichus, two comedies by the 2nd century BC Roman playwright Plautus.
A century's worth of laughs from the pages of Reader's Digest. The post The 100 Funniest Jokes from the Last 100 Years appeared first on Reader's Digest.
In issue 33, Mad published a partial table of the "Potrzebie System of Weights and Measures" developed by 19-year-old Donald E. Knuth, later a famed computer scientist. According to Knuth, the basis of this new revolutionary system is the potrzebie, which equals the thickness of Mad issue 26, or 2.263 348 451 743 817 321 6473 mm. [ 4 ]
During a Science Vs podcast episode [7] [8], Richard Wiseman said this about whether it's actually the world's funniest joke: It was the joke that most people didn't hate. It's so you can look at any one group. You can look at men or women or young or old or Canadians. And there's always a joke that they thought was much, much funnier.
Ancient Roman jokes, as described by Cicero and Quintilian, are best employed as a rhetorical device. [1] Many of them are apparently taken from real-life trials conducted by famous advocates, such as Cicero .
15. What’s the difference between a man and a computer? You only have to tell a computer to do something once. 16. What’s the difference between a scratch-and-sniff book and a witch’s book?
Broad term for a man or woman, sometimes indicating "unusual," behavior e.g. "what a funny old bird" [8] biscuit Pettable flapper [31] bit Prison sentence [35] black hats Bad person, especially a villain or criminal in a movie, novel, or play; Heavy in a movie e.g. The Black hats show up at the mansion [36] blaah No good [8] blind 1.