Tuesday, January 31, 2012

3500 years old ancient jokes

"The evidence of sex, politics and beer-drinking comes from a newly translated tablet, dating back more than 3,500 years, which reveals a series of riddles.

The text is fragmentary in parts and appears to have been written by an inexperienced hand, possibly a student. The researchers aren't sure where the tablet originates, though they suspect its scribe lived in the southern part of Mesopotamia, near the Persian "

He gouged out the eye:
It is not the fate of a dead man.
He cut the throat: A dead man (-Who is it?)
The answer is a governor.

In(?) your mouth and your teeth (or: your urine)
constantly stared at you
the measuring vessel of your lord (-What is it?)
The answer, it appears, is beer.

The deflowered (girl) did not become pregnant
The undeflowered (girl) became pregnant (-What is it?)
The answer, strangely enough, appears to be "auxiliary forces," a group of soldiers that tend not to be reliable.

The tower is high
it is high, but nonetheless has no shade (- What is it?)
The answer is sunlight.

Like a fish in a fish pond
Like troops before the king (-What is it?)
The answer is a broken bow.


Source: http://www.livescience.com/18147-ancient-riddles-decoded-mesopotamia.html

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