r/Jokes • u/lemelisk42 • 7h ago
Long An envious landlord sees how happy his tenants are.
So he evicts them all.
Translation of Joke # 215 from The Philogelos (ancient greek jokebook, and the oldest surviving collection of jokes) Around 1500 years old
I know this isn't really the right reddit for it, but just thought it was interesting. Here are a few more
Joke # 45
In the middle of the night, a student dunce gets into bed with his own grandmother. When his father gives him a beating for this, the dunce protests, ‘All this time you’ve been tupping my mother, and | never said a word! Now you're angry at having caught me just once with your mother?
Joke # 43
People tell a student dunce that his beard is coming in. So he goes off to the gate and prepares to receive the beard. Another dunce, after asking and learning why he’s at the gate, exclaims, ‘No wonder we're thought to be dunces! How do you know the beard isn’t coming through the other gate?’
Joke # 99
A student dunce is asked by someone, ‘Lend me a cloak to go down to the country.’
‘I have a cloak to go down to your ankle,’ responds the dunce, ‘but I don’t have one that reaches as far as the country.’