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this post was submitted on 24 Dec 2023
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If we cut out the context of that anecdote we get something resembling those weird recovered Sumerian jokes.
For anyone else wanting to know more about 3000+ year old humor, please check out Irving Finkel on YouTube. He's hilarious, intelligent, spunky and keeps his talks interesting. I can kill an hour listening to him before I realize it.
One example: https://youtu.be/hDA6oIiQS4E
Just came back to say thanks for this link. Fairly sure I'm heading down a deep rabbit hole.
Also, ancient humor doesn't seem to have had much subtlety, but some of the ideas are timeless -
"An envious landlord sees how happy his tenants are.
So he evicts them all."
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/538490/worlds-oldest-jokebook
They used to give us drivel made-up stories like this at church. Feed a beggar who comes to your house, and later you find out it was Jesus and now you're eternally blessed. 🫤 yeah that seems sweet and all but I clearly remember one instance when one of our naive church members fell for something like this in the real world and the beggar turned out to be a scam artist.
And that's why we modern jaded people don't do nice things for others anymore.
But if it was a literal dog on the road? sure :-) dogs aren't commonly as manipulative and scoundrely as humans can be.