HEY, IF IT AIN'T BROKE....
Tablet full of crude gags and riddles about beer is found - dating back to Exodus
(Thanks to Ben Jolly)
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Dave, did you read the riddles? Obviously, people has no sense of humor back then.
Posted by: Elon | January 29, 2012 at 12:30 PM
SO THAT's where Leno gets his material?
Posted by: funny man | January 29, 2012 at 12:32 PM
"The text has large parts missing, and also appears to have been carved by an inexperienced scribe."
Despite the similarity in description to most of my comments, I didn't author this thing. I'm not that old.
Posted by: Omniskeptic | January 29, 2012 at 12:56 PM
No, funny man - he gets a lot of it from Dave. (Seriously. Always about 2 days after something shows up here it turns up on Leno.)
Posted by: Diva, the Cubs fan | January 29, 2012 at 02:43 PM
Moses, "So an Jew, a Hittite and an Egyptian walk into a bar..."
Posted by: MikeyVA | January 29, 2012 at 02:46 PM
" ... appears to have been carved by an inexperienced scribe ..."
Heck, I know whut this is ...
Remember when we'd be bored, in study hall, and we'd doodle & scribble all over our notebooks?
Sum teen-ager did this ... now, to decipher the mind of a teener, 3,500 years ago ...
Posted by: O the Umanity | January 29, 2012 at 02:48 PM
proof that beer makes people babylon
Posted by: ligirl | January 29, 2012 at 04:27 PM
What's a joke book without a fart somewhere?
Akkadian.
Posted by: Steve | January 29, 2012 at 05:37 PM
oy, moishe, i heard that one already.....
Posted by: queensbee | January 29, 2012 at 07:09 PM
At the bottom:
Thank you, thank you. I'll be here all millennium. Try the mutton and don't forget to tip my serfs.
Posted by: Loudmouth | January 29, 2012 at 09:27 PM
You think those are funny? Here, I got a Bedouin. *harimshot*
And, speaking of ancient, take my wives.
Please.
No, seriously, good evening, ladies and Gentiles.....
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | January 29, 2012 at 09:58 PM
Beer: don't drink the water!
Posted by: Nurse Tammy | January 30, 2012 at 12:22 AM
"auxiliary forces" seems obvious... haven't they ever heard the term "little soldiers"?
Posted by: judi the barberho | January 30, 2012 at 09:34 AM
Found at the same archaeological site was a tablet inscribed with what has been roughly translated as, "Pulleth thine finger."
Posted by: Dan S. | January 30, 2012 at 11:36 AM