Month: September 2016
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“It’s Just a Joke”: The Dark Side & Lore of Prejudice.
Knock-Knock… Joke cycles. We’ve all come across or taken part in them throughout our lives. There are chicken jokes, knock-knock jokes and lightbulb jokes. Remember those awful dead baby jokes? The jokes that circulated when the space shuttle Challenger exploded shortly after takeoff in 1986? Not long after email became a ‘thing’, it took just hours (some…
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The Writing on the Wall. Latrinalia: Graffiti from the Restroom.
Latrinalia. The poetry of the bathroom (a.k.a the lavatory, the loo, dunny, closet, privy, urinal, latrine, washroom, little boy’s or little girl’ room, powder room, bogger, john, crapper, pissoir or water closet).
A Hidden Culture 