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I don’t have extensive experience with Philogelos but it seems to me unfunny in exactly the same way newspaper cartoons are.

λιμόξηρος ἰδὼν ἄρτον ἐν ὑπερθύρῳ κείμενον εἶπε· θεέ, ἢ ἐμὲ ὔψωσον ἢ τοῦτον ταπίνωσον.

The hungry one seeing bread lying over the door said — hurry, either make me higher or make that lower.

(These are things people think, not things that are funny.)

(Philogelos)

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