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Like you didn’t already suspect this:<\/p>\n

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In an Anglo-Saxon book of poetry kept at Exeter Cathedral, <\/a>researchers from Britain’s Wolverhampton University have unearthed a joke that suggests the clich\u00e9d ribaldry of a millennium ago is awfully similar to what passes for humor today. The translation, as cited by the Telegraph, reads: “What hangs at a man’s thigh and wants to poke the hole that it’s often poked before? Answer: A key.” <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Hur hur hur hur!  (wheeze)<\/p>\n

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And they have found evidence of Egyptians laughing at similar<\/a> versions of wit. Researchers at Wolverhampton say the jokes they have found in delicate manuscripts and carved on stone tablets thousands of years old demonstrate a common idea of what’s funny across the ages of humanity: flatulence, sex and “stupid people,” as one academic tells the Telegraph.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

So when the Doctor tells you that the only thing he can depend on on Earth is human nature… better believe him.  <\/p>\n

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