A man walked into a bar - - -
"A man walks into a bar. . . .”— the unmistakable prelude to a joke.
This kind of joke is far older than I ever could have thought — it dates back at least to the ancient Sumerians, some 4,000 years ago. As author Mark Forsyth writes in A Short History of Drunkenness, “Sumerians liked jokes. They made lists of them, and some are still recognisably funny, or sort of funny, today.
Wellington, Somerset, UK.
A man walked into a bar - - -
"A man walks into a bar. . . .”— the unmistakable prelude to a joke.
This kind of joke is far older than I ever could have thought — it dates back at least to the ancient Sumerians, some 4,000 years ago. As author Mark Forsyth writes in A Short History of Drunkenness, “Sumerians liked jokes. They made lists of them, and some are still recognisably funny, or sort of funny, today.
Wellington, Somerset, UK.