13: The Golden Toad Mystery, All the Things we Left on the Moon, and the Oldest Bar Joke
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The Earliest Example of a Bar Joke
The joke was originally found on a tablet from a group of 29 reconstructed tablets ex-evaded between the 1880s and 1930s at ancient Sumerian cities. There was a lot of discussion on twitter about what the joke could mean but some of the things people said actually ended up being pretty accurate. It's possibly the only one that's existed this along might be a better way of describing it there probably are others but this is the one that was the earliest example right yeah right rightRight so the joke is a dog walked into a tavern and said i can't see a thing my laugh was so loud it cut out in the microphone obviously that's what happened well i walked into
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