Posting here too, because even in all the bleakness, we still need humor.
I saw someone use the word "Ur" for "Your" and, as the alternative is working on a paper, I give you ... "Ur mama" jokes.
- Ur mama so fat, she survived the aridification famines and set societal beauty standards for the next thousand years.
- Ur mama so fertile, she obviated the needed for agricultural revolution.
- Ur mama so fit she built the ziggurat just to get her steps in.
- Ur mama so forgettable, she presided over the second dynasty.
- Ur mama so respectable, everyone worshiped Nanna.
- Ur mama so artistic, she set the Standard.
- Ur mama so unique, she spoke a language isolate.
- Ur mama so rich, she controlled trade throughout the entire geographic region.
- Ur mama so organized, she standardized administrative processes, archival documentation, the tax system, and the national calendar.
- Ur mama so balanced, she drafted codes to balance lives and loss with punishment and payback.
- Ur mama got around so much she had to invent a new dating system for the whole city-state.
- Ur mama so literate, she mass-produced Sumerian texts.
(Feel free to add your own.)