Charles Dickens was quite moved after witnessing the foul, unhygienic conditions of the English workers. One time he saw a man spitting phlegm down a sewer, and was so disgusted that he wrote a novel about it: Grate Expectorations.
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If Sherlock Holmes was featured in a kids’ book would it have been ‘The Man in the Hat’ by Dr. Sleuth?
If Shakespeare Worked at a Hardware Store:
- Measure for Measuring Tape
- Two Gentlemen of a Rona
- Taming of the Screw
- Romeo and Juliet Balcony
- Awl’s Well That Ends Well
- Tight As a Door Knocker? (Titus Andronicus)
Some children’s books are awful. Whinny the Poo was complete horse shit.
Pretending to be a Knight of the Round Table is Gawain better than I expected.
Shakespeare tried to get into acting school, but he was bard.
There’s a new upscale periodical for fashionable, flatulent men. It’s called Ass choir Magazine.
The most famous novel about glaucoma is a tie between Eye, Cloudious, and You Less Sees.
Was Thoreau a hermit?
Well he did have a Walden existence.
Biblical flood stories tend to have a certain narrative Ark.