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Unfortunately, vulgar conduct has endured in popular forms of humour for the millennia. The Ancient Greeks were fond of flatulence jokes and we invented the whoop- ee cushion to make sure we are never without one. Last year a British TV comedy channel commissioned a university professor to unearth the world's oldest jokes. Ten were found to qualify as ancient and the oldest joke involved a young woman sitting on her hus- band's lap and ... yup, you guessed it, gas. A sure sign that we're evolving, slowly but surely as a species, is a superiority joke the Greeks loved that you couldn't tell today. A man complains that a slave he has recently purchased has died. "By the gods," says the slave owner, "when he was with me, he never did any such thing!" For the most part jokes about beating animals and mock- ing deformed people are now taboo. The Greeks deemed the tribes of Abderites and Kymaeons to be stupid and therefore inferior. Hence ... a Kymaeon doctor is oper- ating on a patient who's screaming in agony. So the doctor replaces the knife with one that's not as sharp. Some ancient jokes make you wonder about Drew Carey's age. "Can you lend me your knife until Smyrna? Sony, I don't have one that reaches that far." Baddaboom! "Hey, is this thing on?" Humour has always needed a victim and scholastikos, students who skipped class, chatted through lectures and squandered their parents' money on wine — the more things change — these "student dunces" were the targets in the time of Philogelos. .A student dunce wants to see if he looks good when he's asleep so he stands in front of the mirror with his eyes closed. Yeah, they definitely needed a snare drum back then. It seems humour was always a repressed form of communication dying to make its debut in print. As soon as the Ancient Greeks learned to write, they etched dirty names for each other on anything that didn't move. Insult humour predates Don Rickles and his hockey puck by several thousand years. Another ancient joke has a man with bad breath is constantly looking to the heavens to pray. After a quick, baleful glance at him Zeus calls down: "Have a little mercy! You've got gods in the underworld too, you know." After all those clangers, • that's not a bad joke. Sort of like Saturday Night Live — not funny for years and years and then along comes Sarah Palin. Humour, seldom endearing but always enduring from Philogelos to Phil Silvers. MUSSO Appraisals & Consulting Inc. SPECIALIZING IN: • Residential • Commercial • Industrial • Farm • Capital Gains • Foreclosure • Investment • Matrimonial Property . Covering Port Elgin, Kincardine, Goderich, Hanover, Wing/ram and Grand Bend Area! Musso For further information www.mussoappraisals.com -519-741-8700 Appraisa/s & Consulting Inc Mario C. 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