[0748] When In Pompeii…
└ posted on Thursday, 31 December 2015, by Novil
I posted our second webcomic review of Chirault, written by Robert Howard.
- Sign: Pompeii – The Exhibition
- Graffiti: Andrew was here. Goodbye
- Graffiti: Cruel Laura, why do you not love me?
- Graffiti: Carl makes the girls moan!
- Graffiti: If anyone does not believe in Venus, they should gaze at my girlfriend.
- Graffiti: Profit is happiness!
- Graffiti: Steve shit here Steve shit here Steve shit here
- Graffiti: Marcus loves Susan
- Graffiti: No young buck is complete until he has fallen in love.
- Graffiti: Enrico, you are bald!
![[0748] When In Pompeii…](/comics/2015-12-31-0748-when-in-pompeii.png "[0748] When In Pompeii…")
Don’t get it. Is the cleverness that they’ve made graffiti, like the ancient graffiti found in Pompeii? Or does the cleverness pertain to the graffiti itself, because if so, I don’t see it.
@themunck the cleverness is that the grafffiti in the bath are exactly like the ones you could found in the streets of Pompeii
@ pasqui23:
Well, almost exactly. There’s only one crude sexual reference here. 😛
Who would be a Caesar,
Wandering among the Britons,
Out of sight among the sand dunes,
Putting up with northern winters?
– Flautus
Who would be a Flautus,
Wandering among the taverns,
Out of sight among the restaurants,
Putting up with fat mosquitos?
– Julius Caesar
ZING! >:=)>
Very good strip that raises the bar a bit. A great new year to everybody that makes and enjoys Sandra & Woo
expanded version
@ themunck:
Eh I don’t know. The Romans were a lot less refined than we think they were-certainly not beyond cruel or inappropriate jokes. Case in point, have you read Ars Amatoria?
Happy new year, folks!
Yeah, putting a washroom in the freaking Pompeii exhibit is just ASKING for weird graffiti.
@ themunck:
Indeed. There should be A LOT more penises there to be accurate to Pompeii.
I saw the following graffiti in a stall at the John Crerar Library on the Illinois Institute of Technology campus in Chicago once:
MUSIC IS ORDER. Stravinsky
MUSIC IS CHAOS. Cage
I was compelled to add:
I AM MUSIC. Manilow
They’ve forgotten to mention gay sex.
@ Daniel J. Drazen:
Years ago on an London Underground station someone had written “Why do Jews have big noses” and obviously been stopped at that point.
The next morning, under it was written in different handwriting “The same reason Porsches have big air intakes”.
My favorite Pompeii graffito: “Everyone writes on the walls, except me.”
@ Xellos:
Ha! Thanks mate. Which board was that on the right?
Sorry, but what’s so clever about any of that? I just don’t see it…
Well other than it somewhat looking Greekish it is not really clever…
Or actually it looks Latin to me…
Or rather only names, and even only half of them luck Latin… ish…
themunck wrote:
It’s an item of graffiti we weren’t shown yet.
I’m sorry, but is the p**** really necessary?
@ preadatordetector:
Yes. It is absolutely necessary.
-Carl
@ preadatordetector:
Way to miss the joke.
@ Disloyal Subject:
Probably 8/pol/, that’s where I found it.
@ themunck:
That is what the Pompeii had too. But, if its when in Pompeii do as they did then maybe also tthe graffiti makers should be turned into statues too.
Charles Bowditch wrote:
The toilet wall jokes are fettig the “Pompeji” theme very cleverly. Especially the guy with the enourmous penis. I’ve seen a statue just like that in one of the ruins there.
preadatordetector wrote:
I know several women who say No! when asked that question.
Nonferrous wrote:
Well, that’s because “Sophistication” is Expensive.
It costs a Lot of money and the Roman economy was just as Lopsided in that respect as Ours is.
The Rich people had “Servants” to write their Graffiti for them.
Keep in mind that the reason there is so much erotic graffiti in Pompeii is that it was buried before later emperors disapproved of all the shenanigans and cleaned the rest of the Empire up a bit. The Roman Empire of Pompeii is much like the pre-AIDS ’70’s in the U.S. and Europe. Things don’t swing the way they used to these days.
Found on men’s room wall at highwy rest area in middle of nowhere:
”
Three Things I Hate:
1) vandalism
2) lists
3) irony
“
@ Charles Bowditch:
Every one of them is a quote of an actual Pompeiian graffito, only with names changed to modern English ones.
All that is missing is something by Secundus.
One of them should have been by “Biggus Dickus”…. maybe holding his “Python”….
Seriously, there should be a strip about Cloud being in Smash Bros 4.
@ Random Passerby:
Secundus was like roman era robot.
I don’t get it either. Is there a relationship between the writings and the exhibit?
@ Mortar:
If you’ve seen the translations for Pompeii graffiti you would not be able to tell the difference between shitposting online and said graffiti.
If you look at the heart, which says M+S, you can flip it over and it says S+W, which is of course, Sandra and Woo.
@ Daniel J. Drazen:
Crerar is at UChicago, man.
@ Mortar:
As I, and others, have noted above, the graffiti is exact quotes (with changed names) of actual graffiti from Pompeii. Not just the same style, the same words (except the usual translation of ‘Secundus shit here’X3 is more delicate).
@ Xellos:
It makes me so happy that someone posted this.
When in Pompeii do as the Romans did?