Oldest Known Jokes! Freaky


	Oldest Known Jokes! Freaky

maquser

7-31-2008 11:10 AM

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jokes, humor, history, antiquity, britain, sumerian, pharoah

maquser says:

this is just weird, people have always been weird!

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