Best of Summer: What makes the world’s first bar joke funny? No one knows.
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The Origins of Bar Jokes
Serena Net works at Upsala University in Sweden, where she studies ancient Mesopotamia. She spends a lot of time translating Sumerian, looking for clues about early human development. In English, that means something like a dog entered into a tavern and said, probably, I cannot see anything.
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