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[–] Godort@lemm.ee 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Farts are universally funny. Like sex jokes, they transcend time and language.

In fact, the oldest joke we have discovered was a fart joke:

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

Compare that to a different joke from about 200 years later:

A dog entered into a tavern and said, 'I cannot see anything. I shall open this one

It doesn't matter where or when you're from, nor does it matter what language you speak, farts are funny and will continue to be funny forever.

[–] AngrilyEatingMuffins@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I used perplexity to find some more ancient fart jokes

One example of an ancient fart joke can be found in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. In the Miller’s Tale, two characters, Nicholas and Absalom, are competing for the same girl. Nicholas decides to humiliate his rival by waiting at the window for Absalom to beckon the girl. Just when he does, Nicholas lets out a fart with a noise as loud as a clap of thunder, almost overcoming Absalom with its force.

Another example from classical times appeared in "Apocolocyntosis" or "The Pumpkinification of Claudius," a satire attributed to Seneca on the late Roman emperor. In this text, a character named Nicholas lets out a fart as great as a thunderclap, which almost blinds the person struck by it.

The medieval Latin joke book "Facetiae" by Poggio Bracciolini also includes six tales about farting, although the specific jokes are not detailed in the search results

[–] TheGayTramp@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

I’m assuming the bread pumpernickel which literally means “farting Nicholas” must be related to these jokes. Why does Nicholas always fart?