GUARD #4: chuckling
PILATE: What's so... funny about the name "Biggus _ickus"?
CENTURION: Well, it's a joke name, sir.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=monty+python+biggus+dickus
GUARD #4: chuckling
PILATE: What's so... funny about the name "Biggus _ickus"?
CENTURION: Well, it's a joke name, sir.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=monty+python+biggus+dickus
[[ Narcissus is typically shown falling in love with his own reflection in water.]]
oabama is typically shown falling in love with his own reflection in water.
The Vatican Museum has a set of ceramic cylinders from ancient Rome that were long thought to be board pieces for a chess-like game.
They are not. They are in fact what the Romans used in place of toilet paper.
There is writing on some of them. Apparently the Romans liked to inscribe these with the names of people they did not like.
“He has a wife, you know.”
DEFECATO ERGO SUM
Trivia. That Roman soldier actor was told that if he laughed out loud he wouldn’t be paid.
Urinal screens with Cesear’s picture on them?
“Ego sum Fartacus!”
“Pro tempus bonum VVV-MCVIII”
Here is one graffiti I read about, found in Pompeii outside a politician’s house. HOC EGO CACAVI. (Here I s—t)
The first time I went to Pompeii in my late adolescence was in the mid-60s. I was touring that day with a couple of other “girls.” The docents would not let us into several of the rooms with mosaics because they were “improper” for young ladies back in the day.
I also remember being in an Italian museum on that trip, possibly the Naples Museum, where a museum guard demonstrated why some of the statues of gladiators, centaurs and fauns had a hole in the bronze where the male pee-pee should be. He had detachable bronze “parts” in his desk drawer that could be hooked (erectly) into those openings. He got a big kick out of the thought of embarrassing us, but we were history of art students and not so easily shocked.