World’s oldest joke, about flatulence

Oh, the life of the globe-trotting, Indiana Jones-style archaeologist! Millard Fillmore’s Bathtub brought you the world’s oldest animation. MFB brought you the world’s oldest playable musical instrument. And now, with a tip from Dr. Bumsted at Grassroots Science, the world’s oldest joke. It’s a one-liner about flatulence. Academics have compiled a list of the most ancient gags and the oldest, harking back to 1900BC, is a Sumerian proverb from what is now southern Iraq. “Something which ha