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World's Oldest Jokes!

Um, I laughed.

A 1600 BC gag about a pharaoh, said to be King Snofru, comes second -- "How do you entertain a bored pharaoh?"


You sail a boatload of young women dressed only in fishing nets down the Nile and urge the pharaoh to go catch a fish.








(So you won't spoil yourselves and see both answers at once)










The oldest British joke dates back to the 10th Century and reveals the bawdy face of the Anglo-Saxons -- "What hangs at a man's thigh and wants to poke the hole that it's often poked before?"


A key.

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