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kallistiiThe Economist online has a excellent article about pranks...and here is an interesting quote from it:
"Homeric humour
If the prank is one of the more elusive arrows in the comedic quiver, it is also one of the oldest. The Homeric world is full of them. Hermes, for instance, was “full of tricks—a bringer of dreams”. He played his first when only a day old, stealing a herd of cattle belonging to his brother, Apollo, and driving them into a cave backwards to suggest that they had left instead of entered. So beguiling were his tricks that Zeus “laughed out loud to see his mischievous child”."
Could this be the earliest instance of LOL, or Laugh Out Loud on record?
Must do some research....
URL to story: http://economist.com/world/displaystory.cfm?story_id=5323412&no_na_tran=1
ttyl
"Homeric humour
If the prank is one of the more elusive arrows in the comedic quiver, it is also one of the oldest. The Homeric world is full of them. Hermes, for instance, was “full of tricks—a bringer of dreams”. He played his first when only a day old, stealing a herd of cattle belonging to his brother, Apollo, and driving them into a cave backwards to suggest that they had left instead of entered. So beguiling were his tricks that Zeus “laughed out loud to see his mischievous child”."
Could this be the earliest instance of LOL, or Laugh Out Loud on record?
Must do some research....
URL to story: http://economist.com/world/displaystory.cfm?story_id=5323412&no_na_tran=1
ttyl
