<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/873cf031-2976-45a4-9bda-9e46edce5be9/BD59A3E8-0A2B-442B-B961-093E646A1F29/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4979948/Doctor-doctor-jokes-date-back-to-ancient-Romans.html" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4979948/Doctor-doctor-jokes-date-back-to-ancient-Romans.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.telegraph.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4979948/Doctor-doctor-jokes-date-back-to-ancient-Romans.html"><P> Academic research suggests the quips date back to ancient Roman times. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4979948/Doctor-doctor-jokes-date-back-to-ancient-Romans.html"><P> The finding is based on the world's oldest surviving joke book, written in Greek and containing 265 gags dating from the Third Century. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4979948/Doctor-doctor-jokes-date-back-to-ancient-Romans.html"><P> Among them is the entry: A doctor was talking to a patient. "Doctor," the patient says, "Whenever I get up after a sleep, I feel dizzy For half an hour, then I'm all right." "Then wait for half an hour before getting up," said the doctor. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4979948/Doctor-doctor-jokes-date-back-to-ancient-Romans.html"><P> Professor Mary Beard, a classicist at Newcastle University, has been examining the manuscript in a study of humour and jokes in the ancient Roman and Greek world. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4979948/Doctor-doctor-jokes-date-back-to-ancient-Romans.html"><P> She believes the book "Philogelos" or "Laugher of Love" explodes the popular myth of Romans as "toga-wearing bridge-builders". </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4979948/Doctor-doctor-jokes-date-back-to-ancient-Romans.html"><P> Another joke has its origins in 248AD when Rome held what was then billed as the "Millennium Games". </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4979948/Doctor-doctor-jokes-date-back-to-ancient-Romans.html"><P> A spectator meets and athlete who is in tears after losing in his event. 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