Tag: jokes

• Who Was The First Man — Or Woman — To Make A Joke?

  This article has some great 2500 year old jokes. Like this one: Archelaus, asked by a talkative barber how he would like to be shaved, replied: “In silence.” Oooh! Snap! Here’s another: One day Aristippus asked Dionysius for money. “But,” said Dionysius, “I’ve always heard it said that a philosopher never has need of anything.”…

  David Friedman

  August 29, 2011

  Uncategorized

  ancient Greece, Humor, jokes, philosophers

• From 1890: The First Text Messages

  I’m trying something new today. Sometimes in my research I find an interesting old article that I wouldn’t normally post because it’s not from the Sunday Magazine section, or it’s from further than 100 years ago so I’ll never get to it. Instead of letting these go unused, I figure I’ll occasionally post them midweek…

  David Friedman

  August 10, 2010

  Uncategorized

  communication, Humor, jokes, Life, Technology, telegraph, text message