And yet here we are reading their best jokes, many centuries later. > One woman, observing her son coming towards her, inquired, "How fares our country?" And w

And yet here we are reading their best jokes, many centuries later. > One woman, observing her son coming towards her, inquired, "How fares our country?" And when he said, "All have perished," she took up a tile and, hurling it at him, killed him, saying, "And so they sent you to bear the bad news to us!"