Fun facts!

[AnOminous]

I always thought the expression "What the dickens?" or "cold as the dickens" or in general anything involving dickenses was somehow a reference to Charles Dickens, but then I ran into it in Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor, specifically "'I cannot tell what the dickens his name is'" which is obviously before Dickens.

It's apparently a euphemism for the devil. Or it might be a reference to someone else named Dickens. Nobody knows why. Unless someone does.

 

[A Grey Cat]

A factory in Poland was facing foreclosure, in order to raise money to pay off their debts every male employee who met the criteria to do so donated sperm.

Did they line up and do it at the same time?

 

[Captain Hastings Official]

A number of the poems of the classical Latin poet Catullus remained untranslated into English until the 20th century. Not because he wasn't viewed as a significant classical poet (everyone knew he was), nor because nobody had gotten around to translating them, but because no Englishman was going to actually print a poem whose first line is "I will assrape you and face-fuck you" right there where anyone not from Eton or Rugby could see it.

Sundry translations of the most infamous poem:

Catullus 16 - Everything2.com

XVI Pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo, Aureli pathice et cinaede Furi, qui me ex versiculis meis putastis, quod sunt molliculi, parum pudicum. Nam castum ess...

everything2.com

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Translation:catullus_16

Catullus 16

Catullus 16 I will sodomise and mouth-rape you, Pathic Aurelius and catamite Furius, Who have valued me from my verses, Which are erotic, and not enough modest. For while it is right for a loyal p…

latinintranslation.wordpress.com

https://burlesquepressllc.com/2012/05/12/catullus-16-translated-by-g-m-palmer/

(IMHO the best of the lot in actually making a powerful, coherent poem)

Dirty Mondays: Catullus 16 — Bookkake

bookkake.com

 

[UntimelyDhelmise]

The famous idiom of ostriches burying their heads in the sand is actually a myth. It's theorized that the saying came about from European travelers seeing the birds from a distance, and when they dipped their heads down to feed it gave the illusion that they dug their heads into the earth. The visual distortion hot desert weather causes no doubt added to the misconception.

 

[Cheetahman]

A healthy human vagina has about the same pH level of acidy as most types of beers.

To add on to this, one of the reasons why sperm has a hard time surviving the fertilization trip is because their pH is 7.2-7.8: slightly alkaline.
Another pH oddity is that coffee has a pH of 5 (acidic), but tastes bitter instead of sour, which is an alkaline trait.

 

[A Grey Cat]

To add on to this, one of the reasons why sperm has a hard time surviving the fertilization trip is because their pH is 7.2-7.8: slightly alkaline.
Another pH oddity is that coffee has a pH of 5 (acidic), but tastes bitter instead of sour, which is an alkaline trait.

So Chris should have used coffee instead of fanta back when he still did that?

 

[AnOminous]

Once, a defense lawyer called his own client a "nigger" and argued his client was innocent because he'd have been lynched if he was actually guilty.

Gentlemen of the jury, this man, a nigger, is charged with
breaking into the house of a white man in the nighttime and
assaulting his wife, with the intent to rape her. Now, don't you
know that, if this nigger had committed such a crime, he never
would have been brought here and tried; that he would have
been lynched, and if I were there I would help pull on the
rope.​

119 La. 1013, 1016 (1907).

He was acquitted of the assault with intent to rape charge but convicted of the burglary.

 

[Count groudon]

Can’t remember the guy’s name for the life of me, but there was a judo champion that was famous for wearing a pink Gi to his matches. It actually started as a total fuck up, he was running late for a tournament so he threw his white gi into the washer real quick while he finished getting ready, but he didn’t realize he’d left some red clothes inside so it came out pink. Not having enough time to bleach it or get a new one, he wore it to the match and he kicked everyone ass. The crowd was absolutely dumbfounded that this fucker in a light pink outfit managed to beat the best judo practitioners the world had to offer and it caused a bit of an uproar. The guy, finding the whole situation hilarious, decided to start ordering custom-made pink uniforms and kept on kicking ass until he became a legend.

 

[AnOminous]

Can’t remember the guy’s name for the life of me, but there was a judo champion that was famous for wearing a pink Gi to his matches. It actually started as a total fuck up, he was running late for a tournament so he threw his white gi into the washer real quick while he finished getting ready, but he didn’t realize he’d left some red clothes inside so it came out pink. Not having enough time to bleach it or get a new one, he wore it to the match and he kicked everyone ass. The crowd was absolutely dumbfounded that this fucker in a light pink outfit managed to beat the best judo practitioners the world had to offer and it caused a bit of an uproar. The guy, finding the whole situation hilarious, decided to start ordering custom-made pink uniforms and kept on kicking ass until he became a legend.

Gene LeBell. He taught Chuck Norris.

 

[Coldgrip]

Gene LeBell. He taught Chuck Norris.

And Bruce Lee.

 

[Malagor the dank omen]

The best surgeons in the ancient world were egyptian surgeons. This was because in ancient Egypt crimes such as murder or treason were punished with vivisection.

That meant that if you were a filthy traitor to the pharaoh and you were caught, the soldiers would strap you to a table and hand you over to a doctor that would cut you open and play with your insides until he did something that killed you or caused you to go into shock.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

And Bruce Lee.

Choked out Steven Segal, making him shit his pants, after Segal bragged about how he couldn't get choked out.

 

[AnOminous]

Choked out Steven Segal, making him shit his pants, after Segal bragged about how he couldn't get choked out.

It was Gene LeBell, who was a friend of Bruce Lee's and had people like Chuck Norris as students. Seagal denied shitting himself. LeBell wouldn't quite confirm it because he has more class than Seagal.

 

[skiddlez]

A healthy human vagina has about the same pH level of acidy as most types of beers.

There's a yeast joke in there somewhere.

someone tried to kickstart a "vaginal beer," or making beer out of pussy yeast. no, I'm not joking.

First Vaginal Beer: Bottled Instinct

Imagine the essence of a woman in one bottle of beer. Beer with a flavour of champagne! | Check out 'First Vaginal Beer: Bottled Instinct' on Indiegogo.

www.indiegogo.com

idubbbz made a video about it

 

[Malagor the dank omen]

someone tried to kickstart a "vaginal beer," or making beer out of pussy yeast. no, I'm not joking.

First Vaginal Beer: Bottled Instinct

Imagine the essence of a woman in one bottle of beer. Beer with a flavour of champagne! | Check out 'First Vaginal Beer: Bottled Instinct' on Indiegogo.

www.indiegogo.com

idubbbz made a video about it
https://youtube.com/watch?v=n7HY6ssS4Ak

Someone even tried to make pussy scented perfume a long time ago. What's with people and doing shit out of vagina?

 

[A Grey Cat]

Couple facts about Tom and Jerry

The original cartoon simply titled puss gets the boot was originally so hated by MGM studio heads they threatened to fire Hanna Barbera if they made any more cartoons with the cat and mouse duo, but reception to the cartoon was so positive they where given the budget for one more cartoon, they renamed the cat from Jasper to Tom and gave the mouse the name of Jerry.


The Tom and Jerry Christmas short "the night before Christmas" was released on December 6th, 1941 just one day before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Someone even tried to make pussy scented perfume a long time ago. What's with people and doing shit out of vagina?

Jerry Seinfeld: What's the big deal about vagina?

 

[Malagor the dank omen]

The original Black Widow was a woman named Belle Gunness. She was a norwegian inmigrant in the US who killed nearly 40 men and took their money. Still her MO wasn't to marry them and take the insurance money (she only did this to her first husband, who died of poisoning 3 days after he made an insurance after 15 years of marriage), but to post ads in the paper looking for a man and she put as a requirement that they had 5K-20K dollarydoos on them in the first date to prove they could support her and her 4 children. When the date was arranged, she would kill the poor sod and take the money.

She was never caught. When the police was sent to arrest her, her farmhouse was on fire and her 4 kids died in the fire. Among the remains of the house they found too the body of a decapitated woman. The cause of death of the headless woman was poisoning and the physique of the body didn't matched Gunness, but the fact that they found her denture (yeah, she was a toothless hillbilly) among the ruins was proof enough for the police to assert that she died in the fire.

 

[Count groudon]

On the subject of capeshit, in DC’s Doom Patrol series there’s a villain called “The Beard Hunter”

Going from this picture, you’d probably assume he’s some quirky badass Mercenary or something right? Nope, he’s an actual 30 year old virgin who still lives with his mom and murders and shaves other men who have beards because he has an obsessive hatred of facial hair due to a hormone fuckup making it so that he can’t grow his own. His only real “power” is that he somehow has access to military-grade weaponry and he’s completely fucking bonkers.

Just to drive home just how much of an autistic loser he is, there’s an entire page dedicated to his mom calling him a homo after she finds his collection of bodybuilding magazines and it’s fucking glorious

 

[MerriedxReldnahc]

A number of the poems of the classical Latin poet Catullus remained untranslated into English until the 20th century. Not because he wasn't viewed as a significant classical poet (everyone knew he was), nor because nobody had gotten around to translating them, but because no Englishman was going to actually print a poem whose first line is "I will assrape you and face-fuck you" right there where anyone not from Eton or Rugby could see it.

Sundry translations of the most infamous poem:

Catullus 16 - Everything2.com

XVI Pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo, Aureli pathice et cinaede Furi, qui me ex versiculis meis putastis, quod sunt molliculi, parum pudicum. Nam castum ess...

everything2.com

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Translation:catullus_16

Catullus 16

Catullus 16 I will sodomise and mouth-rape you, Pathic Aurelius and catamite Furius, Who have valued me from my verses, Which are erotic, and not enough modest. For while it is right for a loyal p…

latinintranslation.wordpress.com

https://burlesquepressllc.com/2012/05/12/catullus-16-translated-by-g-m-palmer/

(IMHO the best of the lot in actually making a powerful, coherent poem)

Dirty Mondays: Catullus 16 — Bookkake

bookkake.com

I love Catullus (I named my cat after him, even!) , my favorite translation of his works is by Peter Green and has a very extensive section in the back of the book explaining the word choice and interesting cultural tidbits. His translations are the perfect blend of classy and raunchy. On that note if you want to read some more gloriously trashy Roman literature, The Priapus Poems translated by Richard W. Hooper is awesome. Reading the translation notes makes it better (partly because there's some really clunky translations where a joke in Latin didn't work in English and he explains the issue) because there's some really dirty lines that scholars genuinely debate on how to translate. The translator renders "Mentulam cacandum" as "beshitted cock" but some scholars thing the full line of the poem should be translated more as "shitting OUT a cock." Latin is fun.