That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for May 09, 2022

“Someone please light a match!”

Um, Steve, you do know that you don’t have a uterus?

Only in Athens can you expect to have a philosophical debate while taking a dump.

I see where Rodin got the idea for his famous sculpture.

Umm… what are those little yellow bottle-brush things? Please tell me that they are for playing whack-a-mole, please! The alternative doesn’t bear thinking about!

/// We are “treated” today to a scene

in an ancient communal latrine,

where the Romans would squat

using shards from a pot

or a sponge on a stick to get “clean.”

i guess when they threatened to beat the pants off our team, they meant it!

Now, hear me out: STALLS!

Pass the jug over there. We need a courtesy flush here, quick.

“Julius and the Squeezers” (artist unknown)

Not one of the great illustrators/

(he just could not do gladiators)/

Though for models hard pressed/

He still left us his best:/

A work called “The Defecators”.///

Having been around for quite a while/

His work has a certain “style”/

But his subject (the “stool”)

Isn’t “Brandywine School”/

He’s no Wyeth, and no Howard Pyle..

When the ruins of old Pompeii/

Were exposed to the light of day/

What was learned about plumbing/

Was downright mind-numbing/

As the lava was chiseled away.

Nobody found any toilet paper at the store again?

“Artist unknown.” Who would have signed it?

After eating Taco Bell, the boys decided to ‘shoo craps.’

Reminds me of a SNL skit of a vomitorium and Bill Murry providing feathers or scooping out the trough.

Ah, this is why they didn’t bother taking their cell phones into the bathroom with them.

I know our “knowledge” of ancient Rome has been deformed by Hollywood, but I can’t get over those trousers. Did they wear trousers then? I suppose it makes sense, even the capital of the empire gets cold in the winter.

What a load of crap!

The gentleman in brown is obviously wearing crotchless underwear..

That guy in the center we’re viewing? / I don’t want to know what he’s doing. / He’s knelt right on down / On the foulest of ground / With his fingers … gack … fro-ing and to-ing!

The Romans, a hardy breed/

Were generally agreed/

Privacy was unneeded/

Thus they pee’d unimpeded/

By barriers whilst “doing the deed”.///

For “functions” involving a seat/

They were scarcely a bit more discreet/

Though there was less resistance/

To “keeping your distance”/

(Especially in summer heat)…///

To be perfectly (painfully) blunt/

It’s a problem we still confront/

The perfect facility/

Is beyond our ability:/

We can still hear the other guy grunt…

(You can’t always get what you want.)///

And as we proliferate/

(For seem to be driven to mate)/

Our waste won’t abate/

For food must be ate:/

To pee and to poop is our fate.

Well, at least visually, it IS a step up from the vomitorium.

I did a search on roman latrines and saw the original. Won’t let me post a link.

Before “bathhouses” put them out of business, guys would often end a stressful day at one of NYC’s Brick Sh*t Houses

Who would have ever thought that a splinter-seated wooden outhouse would be the next evolution from the centuries old Roman latrines?

When dropping a load with a groan / In here, you don’t do it alone / The guy next to you / Is doing it too / There’s no place to do this at home?

This must be a painting of a Roman public toilet in the provinces. Only barbarian males wore pants!

The standard men’s clothing of the day for Greeks and Roman men was a one-piece mid-thigh tunic, and sometimes a long toga over that. Underneath, they would wear a subligaculum( a loincloth).

Upon entering, Bethany realized that she SHOULD have taken that left at Albuquerque!

An Ancient Roman latrine: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

“This Is How They Wiped Themselves” site=daily.jstor.org 

(syntax supported by the Google, Yandex, Bing, Yahoo, Duckduckgo, and Ecosia search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and click the first link found for info and links that point to more info relating to this illustration.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2922 (May 8, 2022) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment, and using the dropdown menu (even larger if you trim what’s after .png from the URL). So far 42 works, initially with unknown attribution, have been used here. The October 8, 2021, strip has the prior.

Each one is a part of a group/

Which is planning a murderous coup:/

They’ve chosen the “can”/

To gather and plan/

And also to blather and poop..

Who in the world would ever paint this scene???

no oddness here, man in middle is squatting for better view.

The Hardy Boys and the case of “You Smellt It You Dealt It”

Any of my comments would just be sh*tty ones.