Philogelos (The Laughter Lover) is a collection of some 265 jokes, likely made in the fourth or fifth century CE.
Philogelos (The Laughter Lover) is a collection of some 265 jokes, likely made in the fourth or fifth century CE.
Although The Laugher Lover is the oldest surviving example, joke-books already had a long pedigree. According to Athenaeus 614d-e, Philip the Great of Macedon had paid handsomely for a social club in Athens to write down its members' witticisms. At the dawn of the...
Although The Laugher Lover is the oldest surviving example, joke-books already had a long pedigree. According to Athenaeus 614d-e, Philip the Great of Macedon had paid handsomely for a social club in Athens to write down its members' witticisms. At the dawn of the second century BCE, Plautus twice has a character refer to joke-books
Modern scholars such as Rapp and Baldwin have noted how women are infrequent targets of the humor - earning, in fact, attack under only one category of their own, "Horny Women", a category containing just two jokes. Yet one may wonder, for instance, whether the jokes under "Misogynistic Men" have as their primary target the female sex rather than the men who hate them.
Great song on an excellent album! Can't believe nobody commented yet! Can't really make fully sense of the lyrics though
Bbeennn, this is some info I found on the meaning of "Laughing Lover" I like the song a lot but still puzzle on it meaning.
Bbeennn, this is some info I found on the meaning of "Laughing Lover" I like the song a lot but still puzzle on it meaning.
http://www.stoa.org/diotima/anthology/quinn_jokes.shtml#fn1
http://www.stoa.org/diotima/anthology/quinn_jokes.shtml#fn1
Philogelos (The Laughter Lover) is a collection of some 265 jokes, likely made in the fourth or fifth century CE.
Philogelos (The Laughter Lover) is a collection of some 265 jokes, likely made in the fourth or fifth century CE.
Although The Laugher Lover is the oldest surviving example, joke-books already had a long pedigree. According to Athenaeus 614d-e, Philip the Great of Macedon had paid handsomely for a social club in Athens to write down its members' witticisms. At the dawn of the...
Although The Laugher Lover is the oldest surviving example, joke-books already had a long pedigree. According to Athenaeus 614d-e, Philip the Great of Macedon had paid handsomely for a social club in Athens to write down its members' witticisms. At the dawn of the second century BCE, Plautus twice has a character refer to joke-books
Modern scholars such as Rapp and Baldwin have noted how women are infrequent targets of the humor - earning, in fact, attack under only one category of their own, "Horny Women", a category containing just two jokes. Yet one may wonder, for instance, whether the jokes under "Misogynistic Men" have as their primary target the female sex rather than the men who hate them.