Oh, bugger!
Well, I was reading Gonick's
Cartoon History of the Universe, volume 3,(which is very much worth reading, by the way; it's even more full of good stuff than the first few volumes, and has quite a few more dirty jokes) when I came across a discussion of the origin of the word "bugger." Now, not many history books talk about this (it originates with the Albigensian heresy), but since Gonick doesn't give the whole story, and since I'm avoiding work (I'm holding office hours right now, does it show?) I figured I would insert a discourse here on...
( Sodomy as political protestCollapse )(Incidentally: I think that this may be the origin of the Church's opposition to "unnatural acts." Can anyone back or refute this statement?)
