The Shit Lobby
MORTICIAN: Who’s that then? CUSTOMER: I don’t know. MORTICIAN: Must be a king. CUSTOMER: Why? MORTICIAN: He hasn’t got shit all over him. That great historical documentary Monty Python and the Holy Grail was as accurate as ever. Sewage disposal in Roman times (if you were lucky enough to live in a town) was usually an open sewer in the street. Though there were some underground sewers they were rare enough that the Latin word for gutter is the same…