Call me immature, but I succumbed to a 5min laughing fit upon seeing this while digging through 17-18th century articles in JSTOR*:
(van Leeuwenhoek 1711
Phil. Transac. 27:316-320)
Also, I can't help but mentally read this stuff with a lisp, thanks to the
f-shaped
s's...
But "they call it a
fsucking ram, because it had
fsuck'd it's Dam a little before it was killed" is just insane...
*That is what normal people do at 12.30am for fun, right?
LOL! That's hilarious.
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