Ancient Greeks pre-empted Monty Python

Friday, November 14, 2008 - 13:07 in Paleontology & Archaeology

For those who believe the ancient Greeks thought of everything first, proof has been found in a 4th century AD joke book featuring an ancestor of Monty Python's Dead Parrot sketch where a man returns a parrot to a shop, complaining it is dead.

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