I'm A Ding Dong Daddy From Dumas

I have come to the realization that people are growing weary of all the "poop talk" coming out of my posts lately. So today I will not talk about feculence. Of course I wonder if people who study feces for a living ever get tired of it? In the scientific community this is called "scatology" or "coprology". It also may refer to the psychological obsession with excretion or excrement especially when it comes to sexual excitement. Who said science was boring?

We must make sure we don't confuse scatalogy with scat music. Which, of course, is the vocalization of syllables or nonsensical words. Essentially you use your voice as an instrument. Louis Armstrong was best known for this. I would think if Louis was also a scatologist he would be a scatologist scat cat. Yes...I thought that was really bad too.

In 1891 John G. Bourke wrote the book Scatalogic Rites of All Nations. This was a wonderful little "... dissertation upon the employment of excrementitious remedial agents in religion, therapeutics, divination, witchcraft, love-philters, etc. in all parts of the globe. The subject of Scatalogic or Stercoraceous Rites and Practices, however repellent it may be under some of its aspects, is none the less deserving of the profoundest consideration, if for no other reason that that from the former universal dissemination of such aberrations of the intellect, as well as of the religious impulses of the human race, and their present curtailment or restriction, the progress of humanity upward and onward may best be measured."

That is sexy, aint it? I read it twice.

The other day, on the History Channel, there was a quaint little documentary about cannibals. I know what you are thinking, "Care for some sirloin?" But I did find it interesting there was truly a scatological scientist on it showing how by studying the fecal matter of some ancient indians there were human cells in it that would only end up there if they were cannibals. Mathmaticians scoffed at such nonsense, so the scatologist ate them.

It really makes me wonder why more children don't say they want to become a scatologist when they grow up. It is probably the fear that their fathers would beat them senseless until they promise to grow up to become call center team leaders in India.

So, todays post will definitely NOT be about poop....

....damn.