Showing posts with label BBC News. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BBC News. Show all posts

Monday, December 22, 2008

Poop and Ha-ha

Well before the crude humor of South Park, humans were thoroughly amused by fart jokes. The BBC reports that the oldest known joke is a Sumerian proverb circa 1900BCE. The topic? Flatulence of course.

Something which has never occurred since time immemorial; a young woman did not fart in her husband's lap


Personally, I found the Roman smear against Augustus' mother – a first century CE version of “yo’ momma’ perhaps – to be the funniest of the antediluvian gags.

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Coffee Drinkers Take Notice: BBC News

For those of you coffee drinkers seriously considering leaving Earth on November 5th if the your horse doesn't win the presidential race, you may want to check out this invention by two Costa Rican students. The BBC reports that the two men believe they have figured out a way to brew coffee in space.