Over the oldest jokes in the world

It comes to my mind the principal of my high school: the brother James (and imagine, I was in a Catholic cole), all through high school, this American religious natured formed us in the courtyard Mondays, and after reseñarnos news of the week (” the equipment of masculine basketball qualified for the final … the football team won its ticket to the quarter-finals … well … the equipment of feminine volleyball continues to gain experience, … “), loyal as any in the purest old American way of saying speeches, we blew joke Preliminary his rant: in its middle language, and after 20 years of living in the left hand of the devil lands (because God is Peruvian, I caracho !: why ALL WE GOVERNMENTS HAVE ALWAYS ” CRUCIFIED “), and considering that, as a priest, not ” could ” known jokes ” colored&quot ;, we gave a joke CONDORITO … as you can imagine, in the middle of telling, 750 hooligans and gamberras we were, we were counting the final and smiling sarcastically. Poor, Brother James was as good as gold and that not grieved him, even if, for all the parties Teacher’s Day, a student, making comedian, let go, and on behalf of all of us, ” that year yes you regalaríamos a new collection of magazines Condorito “.

Do not get me wrong, Chilean brothers Condorito jokes are good, … but over the years, cause it gives you that smile, hearing how friendly and endearing; which it was the same that spread across my face when I read this curious note: ” gather the 10 oldest jokes in the world, in a study by the University of Wolverhampton, England, ” .. and good though someone may criticize scholars and archeologists are not devoted to unravel the great enigmas of history (… how the Incas carved the rock … how the Greeks created watches, … how America came to be the power is Wednesday, …) at least to me seems like a great idea to ” remove to fresh ” jokes of antiqueü age (even if not the Brother James), so that we break with a myth of current thinking: that the ” old ” They were outdated, …

In this current era, in which most of the young generation only know about the remote past what you see in old movies (for which read a book, or talk!), It has created the false idea that in the distant past, there was humor: in the movies we see pulling Aztecs only the heart that is a content: in biblical times, we tooodas existing perversions (sodomy, incest, etc, tec) but iota of jokes (… that’s why I never wanted to read the Bible, insurance, …); in the movies of the Roman Empire, orgies everywhere, but not even a joke of black humor, .. and as for the films of ancient China, … well, there is humor and jokes seas clear, with the tiny penis, Chinese should be charged a barbarian mood to overcome such “&quot trifles; of life, …

Thus it was forged a kind of unconscious that the old man did not know laugh belief; little more and not going to have a face like print of catechism book: that mental image, has both origin in the Hollywood of the 50’s, and in the Catholic Church, which, with that of sin and walk people will take away that burning straw, then took his sense of humor to the world for centuries. It is interesting why take a hint at humor men almost 4,000 years ago: do we get two interesting revelations: one, nevertheless, if we could sit next to our remote ancestors, and if we could talk the same language We recognize very similar, despite the passing of the ages. And two-and which I think most importantly, that the Old HUMOR, as now, also based on FUN OF THE POWERFUL, sex and scatological … of course, that maybe these old jokes are not so hilarious and original as ” the joke piggy ” (Would not you know? … The story another day …), and that is, in the end, is not the same laugh out loud by seeing a dumb Japanese stringing a rocket in the ass and lights in YOUTUBE, to be in the Sinai and laugh until wetting, seeing your slave camel fall asleep. Let us read it that these jokes were milk, long ago (VIEJITOS ARE WARNED: not necessarily good.)

POST No. 10

(ANTIG&Nuuml; AGE: 5 4th century CE)

A trader who is reputed to be very stingy and wanted to train his donkey not to eat. To die for the animal said: ” What a waste. Just as he had learned not to eat, I die “.

POST No. 9

(ANTIG&Nuuml; AGE: 5 4th century CE)

A barber asks the king: ” How do you want me to cut your hair “?

This replied: ” Quiet ”

. POSITION No. 8

(ANTIG&Nuuml; AGE: between 63 BC to 29 AD)

The Emperor Augustus was touring his empire when he met a man who looked very much like him. Impressed asked: ” Maybe your mother worked as a servant in the palace ”

? ” No, your majesty, ” said this, – ” but perhaps my father … ”

Ranked No. 7

(ANTIG&Nuuml; AGE: between the year 304 to 30 BC)

A man is even more eager to have sex with a donkey: the only obstacle is how much money you carry in your bag

POST No. 6

(ANTIG&Nuuml; AGE: AC 429)

Question: What animal walks on four legs in the morning, two at noon and evening walks on three legs?

Answer: The man. As a child crawls on all fours as a man walks on two feet and grandfather walks with a cane.

(Well, maybe YOU SEE THEM amused)

No. 5

(ANTIG&Nuuml; AGE: AC 800)

Odysseus tells the Cyclops that his name is ” no&quot ;. When orders his men to attack the Cyclops, the shouts, ” Help, nobody attacked me ”

! POSITION # 4

(ANTIG&Nuuml; AGE: 1,100 BC)

A woman who is blind in one eye, and has 20 years of marriage. One day her husband says: ” I divorce, are blind in one eye. ” She responds: ” What you discover that after twenty years of marriage ”

? No. 3

(ANTIG&Nuuml; AGE: 1,200 BC)

Three cowboys were thirsty. One owned a Toro, one of a cow and the third in a wagon. The Torro refused to fetch water, because he was afraid that a lion eat his bull. The owner of the cow did not want to go, because he was afraid that your animal is lost in the desert. On the wagon he would not go because I was afraid that stolen cargo. So the three of us set off to fetch water. When searching the cow became pregnant del Toro and when a calf was born, the entire load of the wagon ate. Problem: Who owns the calf

? POSITION No. 2

(ANTIG&Nuuml; AGE: 1600 BCE)

” How do you entertain a bored pharaoh? Sail on the Nile make a boat loaded with young women dressed only in fishing nets and ask the pharaoh to go catch a fish “.

No. 1: THE JOKE world’s oldest

(ANTIG&Nuuml; AGE: 1.900 -1.600 BC)

Question: ” What ever happened since you can think “?

Answer:. ” That a young woman sitting on the lap of her husband will not leave a fart ”

As we see, we have not invented anything new (at least bad jokes, no); good years and the archaeologists showed us to excavate a cemetery of the second century BC, discovered that the dead were still wrapped in the style of ancient Egypt … but discovered two things: one, that the embalmers and a desire ” save ” raw materials used (how cute !, and charged sure good), and in doing so, old papyrus we did get documents of everyday life of his time. A letter obtained thus revealed: it was a young student at the Library of Alexandria, addressed to his father in Ephesus, saying something like: ” … I require that you send me 100 drachmas to pay for my food and board, but I can not finish my studies. I promise to compensate when a great doctor and you proud of me …&quot ;, finally, …

One to think about this question: why have not reached our times more jokes ?, As easy: because from time to time the powerful are given to end the knowledge (the Romans, Christians, Muslims, … Chinese wanting to censor the Internet, …), it is obvious that with the knowledge of the distant past, also went up in smoke the best jokes of the past: but perhaps we would read in this list things like ” you know what Manco Capac said when he arrived to found Cuzco, .. ” (If they had not burned the quipu), or ” … then the Druid said to the centurion, .. ” (If you had burned the library of the Celts), and that is, why not think that among Mexican codices, for example, might have been a ” ratio of the best jokes of Quetzalcoatl&quot ;, I say ?, … for something that it is undisputed, it is that no destructive tyrant of knowledge, has a sense of humor.

And well, after I left for the antipodes, finish this writing with a tip: we value the legacy of the past to be a bad-joke though, because in the end, all knowledge, is minuscule, the way we we are, and we should not be.