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(08-21-2015, 04:32 PM)Verad Wrote:(08-21-2015, 04:22 PM)McBeefâ„¢ Wrote: Bit of a tangent, but to respond above, we do actually have records of 'lower class' wit, and they've been recorded through the ages.
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For example the Miller's tale by Chaucer is about as low-brow as it gets. A guy kisses someone's butt, gets farted on, and then sticks a iron poker up it.Â
Quote:This Nicholas just then let fly a fart
As loud as it had been a thunder-clap,
 And well-nigh blinded Absalom, poor chap;
But he was ready with his iron hot
And Nicholas right in the arse he got.
   Off went the skin a hand's-breadth broad, about,
The coulter burned his bottom so, throughout,
That for the pain he thought that he should die.
And like one mad he started in to cry,
"Help! Water! Water! For God's dear heart!"
The Graffiti of Pompeii also has good examples:
http://classicalwisdom.com/dirty-world-a...-graffiti/
“The one who buggers a fire burns his penis.â€
Or the poetic dissing of the Romans, this one starts off with 'I will sodomize and face fuck you'Â
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catullus_16
No doubt someone got a kick out of it, or it wouldn't have been written down.
This is actually one of the great ironies of how we perceive wit - the prevalence of this material in the work of people considered wits. Lord Rochester was specifically called a court wit, and his poetry is full of dick jokes and impotency. Swift is one of the great satirists, with such memorably cutting moments as Gulliver pissing on a palace to put out a fire, engaging in what we would consider revenge porn against his intellectual opponents, and, of course, the whole incident with the baby-eating.
One sees a shift in 19th-century Britain in which this material can be referred to only obliquely, and we are still grappling with that shift today.
Hey, that's nothing. Â Robert Herrick wrote some of the earliest English tentacle porn in history, a poem called "The Vine". Â He's only just now being received as a well-written man.