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If you are likely to swoon from off-color jokes, dear reader, please avert your eyes from this post. Here are some actual 18th-19th century jokes. I had no idea that 'kiss my ass' was so old!

"A gentleman being at a gossiping, he kissed all the ladies but one, at which the company took notice of it, and almost put her out of countenance. The gentleman said he would have kissed her but her nose was so long. “You may,” says she, “Kiss my arse, where there is no nose to offend you."

A certain Lieutenant of a man of War, under the Command of my Lord Torrington, having, in the Engagement with Spaniards in the Mediterranean, one of his Arms shot off within a few Inches of his Shoulder, while the Surgeon was dressing it could not forbear laughing; one standing by, ask'd him the Reason. "Why," said he, "I cannot help thinking of a Wish I have often made, that a certain Part about me was as long as my Arm, and now I believe it is three or four Inches longer."

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