Best of Summer: What makes the world’s first bar joke funny? No one knows.
Endless Thread
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The Bar Proverb
Two ancient tablets, he tells us, were etched around 1700 BCE. By that time, Sumer had actually been overtaken by the Babylonian Empire. Kids at the time spoke Babylonian, also called Acadian. Only scribes continued to learn Sumerian.
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