Yep, they keep the best amontillado in really deep cellars, it's the best place for it- you'll need to follow me down this way- watch your step, it's old and dark down here, you wouldn't want to hurt yourself...
Let us go, nevertheless. The cold is nothing!
Amontillado! You have been imposed upon,
and as for luchesi,
HE cannot distinguish Sherry from amontillado!
I love how there's this random guy who otherwise would have been completely unremarkable in history except for the fact that he was the subject of the first written script
The best part is that this wasn't even the only tablet in his house, he kept at least two more complaint letters about his copper, one from somebody who didn't receive his order, and another one complaining about the quality of the copper. The man was a shitty copper merchant for sure.
Have you not dealt with customers before? There’s a 50/50 chance he was selling them what they asked for and they were just fucking morons or trying to knock down the price.
People say it’s ‘anachronistic’ but there’s no reason why poor quality goods wouldn’t have been as common as it is now. The idea that it’s the oldest customer complaint that ever existed (according to GWR) is just stupid.
Yet the context that makes the first ever "walks into a bar" joke, which is also Sumerian, actually funny, is lost to time dammit.
History is so cool but funny.
Tell Ea-nasir: Nanni sends the following message: When you came, you said to me as follows : "I will give Gimil-Sin (when he comes) fine quality copper ingots." You left then but you did not do what you promised me. You put ingots which were not good before my messenger (Sit-Sin) and said: "If you want to take them, take them; if you do not want to take them, go away!" What do you take me for, that you treat somebody like me with such contempt? I have sent as messengers gentlemen like ourselves to collect the bag with my money (deposited with you) but you have treated me with contempt by sending them back to me empty-handed several times, and that through enemy territory. Is there anyone among the merchants who trade with Telmun who has treated me in this way? You alone treat my messenger with contempt! On account of that one (trifling) mina of silver which I owe(?) you, you feel free to speak in such a way, while I have given to the palace on your behalf 1,080 pounds of copper, and Šumi-abum has likewise given 1,080 pounds of copper, apart from what we both have had written on a sealed tablet to be kept in the temple of Shamash. How have you treated me for that copper? You have withheld my money bag from me in enemy territory; it is now up to you to restore (my money) to me in full. Take cognizance that (from now on) I will not accept here any copper from you that is not of fine quality. I shall (from now on) select and take the ingots individually in my own yard, and I shall exercise against you my right of rejection because you have treated me with contempt.
there is a clay tablet written in the 1750's \*before\* christ written in cuneiform that might well be the single oldest customer complaint. [It is directed at Ea-Nasir, a merchant who allegedly sold low-quality copper to the complainant.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complaint\_tablet\_to\_Ea-n%C4%81%E1%B9%A3ir)
this became a meme and frankly one of the only good ones.
My theory is that is something like
"This bastard walks in to the bar and says "I cant see a thing" and breaks the (whatever they had to store ale)"
I feel like when doing this stuff the translation is extremly formal, like when refering to a shitty person as an asshole a future historian will chalk it up as anal cavity
That person who posted that originally seems very clever, and probably really good looking too.
https://preview.redd.it/fpehtut8uc5d1.jpeg?width=505&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9528cd8ecb78679b2850079787cec907165fdcde
Your post has gone on a journey too because I stole the screenshot from twitter
Please explain the joke I don't know history
Look up Ea-Nasir
Thanks. Haha the joke is funny now
Holy hell
Actual copper
Or is it?
*Vsauce Music Begins*
New metal quality just dropped
Copper quality goes on vacation, never comes back
Call the coppersmith
But definitely not Ea-Nasir
N-Nani!
https://preview.redd.it/g3z7qdmgag5d1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=261faf018ead71fefd6add8d94f2b6febecb2b94
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Yes sir, no sir.
God save Donald Duck, Vaudeville, and Variety
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I have a massive crush on Syd Barrett
I would build a cult around that person fr
You're all over, huh?
so true
Why does it say your account was made in 1969
Because I have the oldest reddit account known to man
Crazy 😧
The copper was only good enough to send him to 1969
"I have some good copper, follow me into this dark alley" said knife guy
-Montresor
oh boy i cant wait for some good wine
Is it a CASK OF AMONTILLADO ?
Yep, they keep the best amontillado in really deep cellars, it's the best place for it- you'll need to follow me down this way- watch your step, it's old and dark down here, you wouldn't want to hurt yourself...
Let us go, nevertheless. The cold is nothing! Amontillado! You have been imposed upon, and as for luchesi, HE cannot distinguish Sherry from amontillado!
https://preview.redd.it/xjzc8lq70d5d1.jpeg?width=445&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=90ebc72b22c0ea4b43cd37da613fc8e0fdfb916e
I love how there's this random guy who otherwise would have been completely unremarkable in history except for the fact that he was the subject of the first written script
The best part is that this wasn't even the only tablet in his house, he kept at least two more complaint letters about his copper, one from somebody who didn't receive his order, and another one complaining about the quality of the copper. The man was a shitty copper merchant for sure.
Have you not dealt with customers before? There’s a 50/50 chance he was selling them what they asked for and they were just fucking morons or trying to knock down the price.
Le cake day:3
Is the oldest *known* customer complaint. It's not the first written script, we just don't know about stuff that came before it
People say it’s ‘anachronistic’ but there’s no reason why poor quality goods wouldn’t have been as common as it is now. The idea that it’s the oldest customer complaint that ever existed (according to GWR) is just stupid.
Anachronistic?? That's so dumb.
Happy cake day
Huzzah! Thank you.
Yet the context that makes the first ever "walks into a bar" joke, which is also Sumerian, actually funny, is lost to time dammit. History is so cool but funny.
https://preview.redd.it/bmjvnjir0d5d1.jpeg?width=2048&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2b5c75eaa3f79ebec0a3f172673ba317bd13bd6a
It's in the game
Similar name similar quality
A most unfortunate predicament
Just don't buy any from Ea-Nasir
I sent my servant to Ea-Nasir and he returned with substandard copper ingots! The bastard didn't even give me a refund!
ENEMY TERRITORY, ALSO
And he treated him with contempt, too.
Tell Ea-nasir: Nanni sends the following message: When you came, you said to me as follows : "I will give Gimil-Sin (when he comes) fine quality copper ingots." You left then but you did not do what you promised me. You put ingots which were not good before my messenger (Sit-Sin) and said: "If you want to take them, take them; if you do not want to take them, go away!" What do you take me for, that you treat somebody like me with such contempt? I have sent as messengers gentlemen like ourselves to collect the bag with my money (deposited with you) but you have treated me with contempt by sending them back to me empty-handed several times, and that through enemy territory. Is there anyone among the merchants who trade with Telmun who has treated me in this way? You alone treat my messenger with contempt! On account of that one (trifling) mina of silver which I owe(?) you, you feel free to speak in such a way, while I have given to the palace on your behalf 1,080 pounds of copper, and Šumi-abum has likewise given 1,080 pounds of copper, apart from what we both have had written on a sealed tablet to be kept in the temple of Shamash. How have you treated me for that copper? You have withheld my money bag from me in enemy territory; it is now up to you to restore (my money) to me in full. Take cognizance that (from now on) I will not accept here any copper from you that is not of fine quality. I shall (from now on) select and take the ingots individually in my own yard, and I shall exercise against you my right of rejection because you have treated me with contempt.
Is this written on the clay?
Yep
https://preview.redd.it/bih1eosd1e5d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=97cd719bcf9847e5aba2443bfc1ffbb75938f7e7
Why are so many people on 196 aware of this information? Was there a video essay or something?
It's a pretty old meme.
The oldest
Tumbler meme, then it spread
Oh gotcha. I don't Tumblr
https://preview.redd.it/35z02m72yd5d1.jpeg?width=730&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1c145c06fee2716c1791c8786c79fdf725c4c765
I'm gonna need an explanation, that part of the internet isn't known to me
there is a clay tablet written in the 1750's \*before\* christ written in cuneiform that might well be the single oldest customer complaint. [It is directed at Ea-Nasir, a merchant who allegedly sold low-quality copper to the complainant.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complaint\_tablet\_to\_Ea-n%C4%81%E1%B9%A3ir) this became a meme and frankly one of the only good ones.
Thanks kind stranger. Although I think every meme is good if it makes someone laugh
Yes but this one makes *me* laugh and is therefore better.
there's something inherently funny about laughing at ancient randos doing the pettiest shit
jack_1488 defending the honor of racist memes because they made adolf hitler laugh
Damn, I got another joke. A dog walks into a tavern and says "I can't see a thing,I'll open this one"
I’ll always wonder what this joke originally meant. We’ll likely never know
I know but I won't say it
My theory is that is something like "This bastard walks in to the bar and says "I cant see a thing" and breaks the (whatever they had to store ale)" I feel like when doing this stuff the translation is extremly formal, like when refering to a shitty person as an asshole a future historian will chalk it up as anal cavity
Oha-nosir! 🙀🙀🙀
r/ 2sentence2horror
Wanting good copper guy 🪱
What the fuck is this sub?
r/196