FINALLY - A Reason We Invaded Iraq?

Ancient tablet might contain the world's oldest yo' mama joke:

OK, they aren't exactly knee-slappers, but 3,500 years ago, the six riddles found on an ancient tablet in Iraq could well have been quite the howlers — and may even contain the oldest "Yo Mama" joke known to man.

The cuneiform chucklers, believed to be written by a Babylonian student circa 1,500 B.C., were carved on a damaged tablet, discovered in 1976 by an archaeologist, J.J. van Dijk. The tablet has since vanished, but van Dijk preserved what was written on it.

The riddle that has most captured the imagination is cryptic, but unquestionably involves something sassy being said about somebody's mother:

“...of your mother is by the one who has intercourse with her. What/who is it? [No answer]”

It ain't "yo' mama's so fat when she broke her arm gravy poured out," (or "the radio skipped") but hey.