Comic #7283: filth
Description
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Title: I collect times that authors innocently said something filthy.
Panel 1:
- Source: "Trial by Jury," W.S. Gilbert, 1875.
- Illustration: A man dressed in Victorian-era clothing looks serious, holding a piece of paper.
- Text Bubble: "Be firm, my moral pecker…"
- Explanation: At the time, "pecker" meant nose, as in the once common phrase "keep your pecker up!"
Panel 2:
- Source: "Pippa Passes," Robert Browning, 1841.
- Illustration: Another man with a beard and wearing a suit holds a sheet of paper in one hand.
- Text Bubble: "Then, owls and bats, cows and twats, monks and nuns, in a cloister's moods, adjourn to the oak-stump pantry!"
- Explanation: Browning mistakenly thought "twat" referred to a nun's headgear.
Panel 3:
- Source: "Sir Gibbie," George MacDonald, 1879.
- Illustration: A man looking surprised, with a thoughtful expression.
- Text Bubble: "He might have slept longer the next morning, for there was no threshing to wake him, in spite of the cocks in the yard that made it their business to rouse sleepers to their work, had it not been for another kind of cock inside him…"
- Explanation: MacDonald talking about an internal alarm clock in the worst way possible.
The illustrations feature distinct characters in period-appropriate attire, and the humor derives from the unintentional double meanings of certain words in their contexts. The explanations follow each quote to clarify the humor behind the phrases.