Who_Am_I wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joke
i never thought to read the wikipedia explanation of jokes before. i have never really been interested in them, but i became interested when i read (in the linked article) about the history of jokes, and i started to wonder what sort of jokes were around in antiquity, and i found a few ancient roman jokes that i thought were very funny, but the funniest one is the example wikipedia gives:
A barber, a bald man and an absent minded professor take a journey together. They have to camp overnight, so decide to take turns watching the luggage. When it's the barber's turn, he gets bored, so amuses himself by shaving the head of the professor. When the professor is woken up for his shift, he feels his head, and says "How stupid is that barber? He's woken up the bald man instead of me."
i have to say i find that funny, and i have an indescribable feeling about the fact that the person who thought of this joke is unknown, and will never be known. it is hard to imagine i could laugh with a person 2000 years ago at this joke he thought of.
it is hard to imagine that all other evidence of his existence has been obliterated over so much time, and that the body he lived in is cast so widely to the sands of time.
i also have started reading ancient stories as a result of your link.
dust wrote them. i want to hear what dust said before it was dust
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