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Re:Jokes that have made people laugh for thousands of years by tshaddox on Monday March 28, 2022 @07:03PM (#30836675)
The joke as presented here doesn’t work at all due to the emperor addressing him as “young man,” which makes it impossible to avoid the interpretation that the emperor is concerned that he himself could be the father of the young man.
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Re:Jokes that have made people laugh for thousands of years by stavros on Monday March 28, 2022 @07:06PM (#30836691)
Ah right, thank you. I thought that I had misinterpreted that he was older, but now that you point it out I realize that's why I thought that.
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