What Next? Contest: Oldest Joke - July 3-10, 2009

Click here for results of last week's What Next? Contest: Penguin Movie

Results: In light of a recent study that found our simian cousins share an ability to laugh, we asked you for the very first, pre-historic, possibly even pre-human joke. Or at least the very first line of the very first joke, 1,000,000 B.C. You swung in with:

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