Re:Jokes that have made people laugh for thousands of years
by Digory on Tuesday March 29, 2022 @12:19AM
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From a 1922 translation:
A father advised a pedant who had a child born to him of a slave woman to do away with the child. He replied "First bury your own children before you advise me to do away with mine."
You could probabaly make it a little more sarcastic: "Why don't you bury..." I assume the pedant is an adult, and cannot be killed lawfully, so burial is way off in the future. And once the pedant is buried, he cannot kill his own child.
It rings a little like a more vulgar versions of the saying of Jesus, "remove the plank from your own eye..."
A father advised a pedant who had a child born to him of a slave woman to do away with the child. He replied "First bury your own children before you advise me to do away with mine."
You could probabaly make it a little more sarcastic: "Why don't you bury..." I assume the pedant is an adult, and cannot be killed lawfully, so burial is way off in the future. And once the pedant is buried, he cannot kill his own child.
It rings a little like a more vulgar versions of the saying of Jesus, "remove the plank from your own eye..."