In days of old when knights were bold?!

In days of old when knights were bold?

and ladies weren't invented ,knights screwed holes in telegraph poles and they had to be contented..'

Crikey. We told this joke when I was a boy in the 1940's . How old a joke can you get. How about some of the old Max Miller gags. Met this girl coming the other way on a narrow bridge ,I didn't know whether to block her passage or toss myself off. Talk about a bit of nostalgia..