“Like a flatulent anus, the mouth produces too many words.”
“Like a flatulent anus, the mouth produces ‘excellence’”
Two proverbs recorded in Sumerian and Akkadian, respectively, survive on a fragment from the Library of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh, and are both somewhat insightful
“Like a flatulent anus, the mouth produces ‘excellence’”
Two proverbs recorded in Sumerian and Akkadian, respectively, survive on a fragment from the Library of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh, and are both somewhat insightful
#WednesdayWisdom I guess
FWIW, flatulence comes up more than once in Sumerian and Akkadian proverbs, as in this Neo-Assyrian fragment from Nineveh.
“A thing which has not occurred since time immemorial: a young girl broke wind in her husband’s lap.”
“A thing which has not occurred since time immemorial: a young girl broke wind in her husband’s lap.”
Turns out people have been making fart jokes for a while
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