Collection of Lame Jokes

[DennisN]

I read a funny quote today:

We must believe in free will. We have no choice.

- Isaac B. Singer (source)

 

[JT Smith]

 

[JT Smith]

 

[JT Smith]

 

[JT Smith]

 

[DennisN]

 

[jack action]

 

[fresh_42]

Sommelier breaks his silence and discloses: All wines taste exactly the same.

 

[dextercioby]

 

[fresh_42]

A woman never farts in a man's lap.

 

[fresh_42]

 

[Ibix]

A woman never farts in a man's lap.

Is that the oldest known joke?

 

[fresh_42]

Is that the oldest known joke?

Yes. Mesopotamia, some several thousand years ago. However, I don't get it. I thought since we carry an empirical science in our name, I take it to the test and see how many "likes" and how many "scepticals" I get to see whether it is my lack of phantasy and it is "funny" or whether it is indeed "lame" at best or "not funny" at all.

Unfortunately, the experiment is contaminated now that you revealed its origin.

Spoiler

However, if I think about it and my suspicion is correct, then it is indeed a bit funny: The sound you might hear in such situations is not from a fart.

 

[jack action]

Yes. Mesopotamia, some several thousand years ago. However, I don't get it. I thought since we carry an empirical science in our name, I take it to the test and see how many "likes" and how many "scepticals" I get to see whether it is my lack of phantasy and it is "funny" or whether it is indeed "lame" at best or "not funny" at all.

Unfortunately, the experiment is contaminated now that you revealed its origin.

To be honest, I didn't really understand it. The image was kind of lost on me. After researching it, I found this:

The joke is following:

“Something which has never occurred since time immemorial…A young woman did not fart in her husband’s lap.”

— The world’s oldest joke

Do you find it funny? Will you tell the joke at the next party?

Some say the Sumerian joke is the ancient predecessor of John Barrymore’s quote: “Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.” Be the judge of that yourself.

Now I understand where they were going (if it is really what they meant) but a joke that needs to be explained is not funny. Lame AND not funny. Maybe the humor was lost in translation?

But we had to start somewhere.

 

[fresh_42]

Now I understand where they were going (if it is really what they meant) but a joke that needs to be explained is not funny. Lame AND not funny. Maybe the humor was lost in translation?

Compare my interpretation in the Spoiler tags I added.

 

[johntpl]

To be honest, I didn't really understand it. The image was kind of lost on me. After researching it, I found this:

Now I understand where they were going (if it is really what they meant) but a joke that needs to be explained is not funny. Lame AND not funny. Maybe the humor was lost in translation?

But we had to start somewhere.

Ancient Sumerian is full of puns and wordplay. I expect something was lost in translation

 

[jack action]

Compare my interpretation in the Spoiler tags I added.

With so many interpretations, are we even sure it's a joke?

 

[phinds]

Listen, ladies ... let's get this straight once and for all. If your man says he is going to fix something, then dammit, he WILL fix it.

You don't have to keep reminding him every three or four months.

 

[nsaspook]

 

[Ibix]

With so many interpretations, are we even sure it's a joke?

So you think we may be just asumerian that it is?

 

[dextercioby]

 

[Borg]

Modern day Cyrano de Bergerac?

 

[Petebobs]

You got some old jokes mates

 

[topsquark]

Modern day Cyrano de Bergerac?

ChatGPT isn't "nosey" enough to make such comments...

-Dan

 

[jack action]

When women get to a certain age, they start accumulating cats.

This is known as the "many paws".

 

[fresh_42]

 

[dextercioby]

 

[fresh_42]

 

[berkeman]

From Facebook today, some of these are pretty good. My favorite is the one in the lower left.

 

[nuuskur]

Unsinkable the II .. after Unsinkable the I sank.

 

[dextercioby]

 

[dextercioby]

 

[jack action]

 

[davenn]

 

[DennisN]