Fitness instructor carves his girlfriend’s name into the Colosseum.
Still Life with Ham, by Philippe Rousseau, c. 1870. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 1982.
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As to why he didn’t drink water, an inebriated W.C. Fields purportedly responded, “Fish fuck in it.”
Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.
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