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Bonus - Mysterious Jokes from the Past

Escape This Podcast

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You Set Me Up

The phrase, you set me up is from at least the 1520s. No one knows within a two second Google where it came from. Joe Miller thought they were going to set him up with a woman. But instead he was in the pillory. And indeed, they were as good as their word for in six weeks time.

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