posted March 14, 2007 06:19 PM         

POTTY humor allows us to bring this fact into conscious awareness, and allows us to enjoy the fact that we are animals. It all goes back to the Greek concept of Miasma, anything that associates humans with animals is considered disgusting. Why? Because it's a manifestation of our own mortality.

POTTY humor allows us to laugh and cope with the fact that we are mortal animals. We poop, we pee, we bleed, we FART, and its funny, and its beautiful.

Anyone that has a problem with POTTY humor can take it up with me, here, and now. If you do have a problem with it, its not going to make you any less mortal, I'm sorry to say. Also, I shart in your general direction.

Maybe I"m just having a .....

posted March 14, 2007 06:44 PM         

Holy Sh!t

posted March 14, 2007 10:34 PM         

It's some good shite.
Fertilizing for the soul. Fumigates the foggy recesses and crevaces of the body.

posted March 14, 2007 10:38 PM         

Baby chant:

Baby baby
Come on out
Baby baby
Come on out

posted March 15, 2007 02:23 AM         

i devoted an entire OB visit discussing "what happens if i poo during delivery" he said it is "discreetly whisked away" .

turns out i couldn't give a shat even if i did shat, because you just lose inhibition and turn into an animal when you're in labor, panting, howling, ripping off your robe.

posted March 16, 2007 12:24 PM         

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Why I love potty humor

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Actually I've always wondered which part of the chart represents humour.

posted March 16, 2007 05:04 PM         

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Sounds restrictive and pretentious!

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Ugh, I can't stand it when peopel have delicate sensibilities and are prudish.

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Potty humour is very...direct and simple. It's something you blurt out, not much thought needed - and God forbid someone thinks you're "simple" where I'm from.

posted March 18, 2007 04:37 PM         

Scarab in Ancient Egypt
Several species of the dung beetle, most notably the Scarabaeus sacer (often referred to as scarab), enjoyed a sacred status among the ancient Egyptians.

The hieroglyphic image of the beetle represents a trilateral phonetic that Egyptologists transliterate as xpr or ḫpr and translate as "to come into being", "to become" or "to transform". The derivative term xprw or ḫpr(w) is variously translated as "form", "transformation", "happening", "mode of being" or "what has come into being", depending on the context. It may have existential, fictional, or ontologic significance.

The scarab was linked to Khepri ("he who has come into being"), the god of the rising sun. The ancients believed that the dung beetle was only male in gender, and reproduced by depositing semen into a dung ball. The supposed self-creation of the beetle resembles that of Khepri, who creates himself out of nothing. Moreover, the dung ball rolled by a dung beetle resembles the sun. Plutarch wrote: "The race of beetles has no female, but all the males eject their sperm into a round pellet of material which they roll up by pushing it from the opposite side, just as the sun seems to turn the heavens in the direction opposite to its own course, which is from west to east."[6]

The ancient Egyptians believed that Khepri renewed the sun every day before rolling it above the horizon, then carried it through the other world after sunset, only to renew it, again, the next day. Some New Kingdom royal tombs exhibit a threefold image of the sun god, with the beetle as symbol of the morning sun. The astronomical ceiling in the tomb of Ramses VI portrays the nightly "death" and "rebirth" of the sun as being swallowed by Nut, goddess of the sky, and re-emerging from her womb as Khepri.

A scarab, depicted on the walls of Tomb KV6 in the Valley of the KingsThe image of the scarab, conveying ideas of transformation, renewal, and resurrection, is ubiquitous in ancient Egyptian religious and funerary art.

Excavations of ancient Egyptian sites have yielded images of the scarab in bone, ivory, stone, Egyptian faience, and precious metals, dating from the Sixth Dynasty and up to the period of Roman rule. They are generally small, bored to allow stringing on a necklace, and the base bears a brief inscription or cartouche. Some have been used as seals. Pharaohs sometimes commissioned the manufacture of larger images with lengthy inscriptions, such as the commemorative scarab of Queen Tiye. Massive sculptures of scarabs can be seen at Luxor Temple, at the Serapeum in Alexandria (see Serapis) and elsewhere in Egypt.

The scarab was of prime significance in the funerary cult of ancient Egypt. Scarabs, generally, though not always, were cut from green stone, and placed on the chest of the deceased. Perhaps the most famous example of such "heart scarabs" is the yellow-green pectoral scarab found among the entombed provisions of Tutankhamen. It was carved from a large piece of Libyan desert glass. The purpose of the "heart scarab" was to ensure that the heart would not bear witness against the deceased at judgement in the Afterlife. Other possibilities are suggested by the "transformation spells" of the Coffin Texts, which affirm that the soul of the deceased may transform (xpr) into a human being, a god, or a bird and reappear in the world of the living.

A carved steatite scarab amulet - circa 550 BC.One scholar comments on other traits of the scarab connected with the theme of death and rebirth: "It may not have gone unnoticed that the pupa, whose wings and legs are encased at this stage of development, is very mummy-like. It has even been pointed out that the egg-bearing ball of dung is created in an underground chamber which is reached by a vertical shaft and horizontal passage curiously reminiscent of Old Kingdom mastaba tombs."[7]

In contrast to funerary contexts, some of ancient Egypt's neighbors adopted the scarab motif for seals. The best-known of these being Judean LMLK seals (8 of 21 designs contained scarab beetles), which were used exclusively to stamp impressions on storage jars during the reign of Hezekiah.

The scarab remains an item of popular interest thanks to modern fascination with the art and beliefs of ancient Egypt. Scarab beads in semiprecious stones or glazed ceramics can be purchased at most bead shops, while at Luxor Temple a massive ancient scarab has been roped off to discourage visitors from rubbing the base of the statue "for luck".

In literature
In Aesop's fable "The Dung Beetle and the Eagle", the eagle kills a hare despite the beetle's appeals. The beetle takes revenge by twice destroying the eagle's eggs. The eagle, in despair, flies up to Olympus and places her latest eggs in Zeus's lap, beseeching the god to protect them. When the beetle finds out what the eagle has done, it stuffs itself with dung, goes straight up to Zeus and flies right into his face. Zeus is startled at the sight of the unpleasant creature and jumps to his feet. The eggs are broken. Zeus then learns of the beetle's plea which the eagle had ignored. He scolds the eagle and urges the beetle to stay away from the bird. But his efforts to persuade the beetle fail; so he changes the breeding season of the eagles to take place at a time when the beetles are not above ground.

Aristophanes alluded to Aesop's fable several times in his plays. In Peace, the hero rides up to Olympus to free the goddess Peace from her prison. His steed is an enormous dung beetle which has been fed so much dung that it has grown to monstrous size.

posted March 19, 2007 02:27 AM         

i would see me doing something like this, researching the dung beetle and all its symbology//.

love it

posted March 19, 2007 02:31 AM         

Virgo is more about separating the wheat from the chaff. Finding whats good and whats bad in each situation, finding and identifying inefficiencies and flaws. Which is not to say virgos aren't darn good researchers too!.