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The oldest recorded joke is a fart joke— "Something which has never occurred since time immemorial; a young woman did not fart in her husband's lap."

https://m.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/01/oldest_joke/

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soVeryTired8y ago

The double negative confuses me. Are they saying young women never do that or they always do it?

pngai8y ago

I could be confused too, but I would rewrite it as

"It is a universal practice for a young woman to fart in her husband's lap."

SomeStupidPoint8y ago

I think 'experience' might be better than 'practice', in the sense that it's an accidental fart.

Which makes it a strangely comprehensible joke -- "there's never been a wife that didn't fart in her husband's lap", which I can see being said as a teasing, crude joke. (Especially if that "girl's don't fart" thing is an older pseudo-belief than I had thought.)

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