"Dead parrot sketch is 1,600 years old"

[jingofever]

Link.

A comedy duo called Hierocles and Philagrius told the original version, only rather than a parrot they used a slave.

It concerns a man who complains to his friend that he was sold a slave who dies in his service.

His companion replies: "When he was with me, he never did any such thing!"

[barracuda]

Slave jokes are always total knee-slappers. This one seems to be no exception.

I am presently in the fetal posiition, rocking rythmically back and forth upon the carpeting overcome with the chuckyulers.

[AhabsOtherLeg]

His companion replies: "When he was with me, he never did any such thing!"[/i]

The problem is that the slave did die, every day, when he awoke and realised again the shame and horror of his enslavement. His pride died. His humanity died. Every day he was weakened, and edged further towards death.

Oh. This is the lounge. Sorry.

It's actually not too bad, for Greeks. Their modern comedy is worse.

"What's that horrible smell?"

"A gypsy from Bulgaria!"

HAWHAWHAWHAW.

It's a wonderful country, with a history that transcends rational thought (even if they invented it). Shame about the present state of the place.


I'm a buzzkill.