Nothing new...

There's an old joke:

When God made man...
...she was only testing.

When did I first hear it? Perhaps in the 1970s - that's why I say 'old'. But I recently heard this version:

Auld Nature swears, the lovely dears
Her noblest work she classes, O:
Her prentice han' she try'd on man,
An' then she made the lasses, O.

- which is dated 1783. Happy Burns Night! I'm off to boil a haggis...