Comments by "" (@EbenBransome) on "A defence of scatology" video.

  1. Rabelais as well as being a satirist was a medical doctor, and you could say it was his stock in trade since in those days the main internal diagnostics available to the medical profession were pee and poo. I have the two volume Motteux translation (I was only able to find the original in a large library). The simple fact is that Rabelais is totally unembarrassed about any bodily functions. It's a reminder of What the Victorians Did for Us, along with the Americans for whom even a boob is a step too far in mass media.
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  2. Answer to the question "what's brown and sounds like a bell?"
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  3. I think coprology is the preferred term nowadays due to the "scat" being appropriated by kinky people.
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  4. ...that's the Urquehart/Motteux translation, brain going soft.
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