BECAUSE GUYS CREATED THEM
Why So Many Medieval Manuscripts Depict Butt Trumpets?
(Thanks to Godot51 and John Lobert)
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June 29, 2020
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This should have come with a warning.
Posted by: JB | June 29, 2020 at 11:35 AM
It just goes to show that fart jokes never get old, such as being serenaded or hoisted by one's own petar
Posted by: cfjk | June 29, 2020 at 11:46 AM
https://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-is-a-butt-tuba-and-why-is-it-in-medieval-art-michelle-brown#watch ...According to this "butt-tubas" are symbolic of an opinion on the part of the illustrator that the author is talking out of his arse.
Posted by: cfjk | June 29, 2020 at 11:52 AM
I did not expect to read about "Medeval butt trumpets" today. Life is full of surprises.
Posted by: LeDud | June 29, 2020 at 11:57 AM
Perhaps they were just fascinated by the discovery of Uranus....
Posted by: Trent | June 29, 2020 at 12:04 PM
The playing of butt trumpets are, sadly, out of date and out of time. Surviving manuscripts tell of accidental discharges of LBG (liquid butt gas) ruining symphonies.
Posted by: Le Petomane | June 29, 2020 at 12:58 PM
The blog nailed it in one - guys were doing the illustrations. Obviously the author was the guy's sister,(or wife) who took her writing very seriously.
Could even be a daughter.
I know of what I speak.
Posted by: vaporsmith | June 29, 2020 at 01:07 PM
Because the whoopee cushion hadn't been invented yet.
Posted by: Clankie | June 29, 2020 at 01:16 PM
It's been a long time since I shared this anagram here, but it seems fitting:
"Reverend Al Sharpton" = "Perverted Anal Horns"
Posted by: vaporsmith | June 29, 2020 at 01:21 PM
Scene:
You're a medieval monk, tasked with copying and illustrating manuscripts. You work at a table, along side others, in a room where silence is literally the rule.
You and your brothers are basically fed fiber and beans for months on end.
"What's that sound in the distance?"
(All that's really missing here is Mongo...)
Posted by: ed in texas | June 29, 2020 at 01:27 PM
Gee I thought watching Mulholland Drive was going to be the weirdest thing I would see today.
Posted by: ImNotDave | June 29, 2020 at 02:39 PM
Single back side trumpet- early fog horn? Front and back simultaneously produced harmony. (This would have pre-dated the bag pipes, which I was told were invented by the Irish, along with the kilt and golf and given to the Scotts as a joke)
Posted by: Dennis 71-72 | June 29, 2020 at 04:40 PM
Natural gas.
Posted by: Steverino | June 29, 2020 at 04:53 PM
good name for a rock band?
Posted by: clio | June 29, 2020 at 04:54 PM
Medieval version of free speech
Frankly, they should be mandatory in D.C.
Posted by: John | June 30, 2020 at 10:01 AM