Latrinalia or toilet graffiti is almost as old as the act of defecation. Sometimes it is vulgar and puerile, other times it can be funny and philosophical.
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Here is a brief compendium.
- Stercus cuique suum bene olet.
One’s own shit smells good.
Ancient Roman proverb. - Si desit stramen, cum digito terge Feramen.
If you cannot get some Grass, With your Finger wipe your Arse.
Written in a Bog-House at Ipswich, circa 1730. - “I do not like this place at all. The seat’s too high and the hole’s too small”!
Written below it:
“You lay yourself open to the obvious retort, your bottom’s too big and your legs are too short”. - Not latrinalia, but it could be.
Inter urinas et faeces nascimur.
We are born between urine and feces.
St. Augustine. 4th Century - A good shit is like half a fuck.
- Am I a creature of Nature or a product of Civilization?
- Here is the place where one shits what one has eaten the day before.
Praise God that we do not have to eat what we shit the day before. - What is food for the mouth is shit for the ass.