catch-fart

[David A. Daniel]

>I don't get it.



Yeah. It takes my wife more than 4000 years to get some jokes too. ;)









On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 5:14 PM, Stephen Goranson <goranson at duke.edu> wrote:

> It is a saying of the Sumerians, who lived in what is now southern Iraq
and

> goes: 'Something which has never occurred since time immemorial; a young

> woman did not fart in her husband's lap.'



It *never* occurred that a young woman *did not* fart in her husband's lap?



How do you work out the double negative in Sumerian?  Is it an

intensifier, or do they cancel each other out?



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Randy Alexander

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