I Miss Gary Larson creator of the Far Side. Not coin related but I thought some of you might enjoy a laugh.
Found: An Ancient Roman Comic Strip With Speech Bubbles Two laborers build the city and discuss their work in the captions. Thought your thread would be a good place for this.
Here's some scatological humor from the "Seven Sages" room in Ostia Antica. Wall paintings of famous philosophers on the toilet with a variety of funny sayings. My favorite one testifies to the health benefits of regularity; i.e., if everything is okay in the bathroom, you don't need an expensive doctor: "BENE CACA ET IRRIMA MEDICOS"; "S--- WELL AND SCREW THE DOCTORS!" For more, click here: http://www.ostia-antica.org/regio3/10/10-2.htm
Recall hearing the oldest (1900 BC) joke on QI some years ago: Something which has never occurred since time immemorial; a young woman did not fart in her husband’s lap.
An Ancient Greek walks into a tailor shop with a torn pair of pants. “Euripides?” Asks the tailor “Yeah. Eumenides?” Replies the man
My favorite grafitty from Pompeii: Apollinaris, the physician of Emperor Titus, had a good s**t here. I love the fact that well educated Romans in important positions were not too lofty or fancy to engage in a little crude humor in the wall of a public latrine. In fact, it is said the Emperor Vespasian once asked a well known wit to make a joke about him, and the guy replied..."I will when you have at last finished relieving yourself." The joke being that Vespasian's well known forehead folds made him look constipated. Vespasian laughed hard and promptly rewarded the man for his wit. The ancient Romans sure loved their dirty jokes about sex and bodily functions. Pompeii and Herculaneum's walls are covered in them.
