Ancient humour no longer acceptable.Provided by 7DAYS.ae Ancient humour no longer acceptable The BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. has reported that a team of academics has been charged with scanning history to track down the world's oldest humour. The project, by UK TV comedy channel "Dave", wants to identify the oldest recorded example of a joke.It sounds bizarre, but the winner is an ancient Sumerian proverb, of 1900 BC which mocks a woman who breaks wind in her husband's lap!In this era, if a man breaks wind, in the sheer presence of a woman, it could lead to a divorce!! RK Dubai A[umlaut umlaut (  m`lout) [Ger.,=transformed sound], in inflection, variation of vowels of the type of English man to men. ] 2007 Al Sidra Media Al Sidra Media LLC is a publishing company based in Dubai, UAE. It publishes the popular English-language newspaper 7Days, which is distributed for free. External links
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