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Bonus - Mysterious Jokes from the Past

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Newgate Prison

Newgate prison was opened in 1188 and closed in 1902. A poor woman sent her son to a gentleman's house upon some errand or other. The loitering lad stayed somewhat too long, looking upon a dog in the wheel that turned the spit so that when he came home, his mother beat him soundly. If she had been there, she would have stayed as long as he. And then the joke is, the dog can't cook but it cooks better than you do. But you didn't talk in a hamster wheel? Still would find in the 90s today,. Oh my God, that's a dog in a raised hamster wheel. This is an old

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