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prettygoodword ([personal profile] prettygoodword) wrote2015-09-03 08:54 am

latrinalia

latrinalia (la-tri-NAY-lee-uh) - n., bathroom graffiti.


Writ on the walls of latrines. Includes art as well as words, of course. While the word is from 1966 (coined by folklorist Alan Dundes), we know from Pompeii that the thing itself is very old indeed.

---L.

[identity profile] mount-oregano.livejournal.com 2015-09-03 09:28 pm (UTC)(link)
I saw this many years ago on the walls of a women's bathroom at Summerfest in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, and it remains my favorite latrinalia:

Why did God invent orgasms?
So the dumbfuckers would know when to stop.

[identity profile] prettygoodword.livejournal.com 2015-09-04 02:44 pm (UTC)(link)
*snrk*