[D-community-offtopic] Joke# 18

[Chris Bannister]

These are from Philogelos, a Byzantine book written around 400 AD.
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Scholasticus meeting a friend exclaims, "Why, I heard you were dead!"
The other replies, "Well, I tell you that I'm alive." "Yes," persists
Scholasticus, "but the man who told me so is more truthful than you!"
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A son says to his father, "Base man! Don't you see how you have wronged
me? If you had never been born and stood in the way I should have come
into all my grandfather's money."
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An Abderite saw a eunuch talking with a woman and asked him if she was
his wife. When he replied that eunuchs can't have wives, the Abderite
asked: "So is she your daughter?"

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"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people
who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the 
oppressing." --- Malcolm X