Taro’s Reviews > The Arabian Nights > Status Update

Oh. It’s okay. the princess didn’t want the Wazir to “go into her” so she kicked him in the balls

It would be great if they stopped using “come into her” as a euphemism for sex
🤢

Drag Queens at the King’s daughter’s wedding
Burton explains this in a footnote, these performers where preferred to women which wouldn’t be so halal

Remind me to not fk with Ali Baba’s slave girl

It's like 12 years later and I finally got to Alaeddin

A man farts accidentally and so excuses himself from the dinner table and runs away to India forever out of embarrassment.
These are the stories that will last through time, people.

Also now finally starts Sindbad!

2 ppl fighting over a bag. The police ask each to describe the contents, and each start normal but get increasingly absurd contents, to animals "two bitches"; "a whore and a hermaphrodite"; cities; armies; castles; slaves; a Christian priest; the Tigris and Euphrates; whole countries...

Then the police, befuddled, opens the bag and inside is a small basic lunch. it's The ancient Persian Aristocrats joke apparently.

Thank you Sir Burton, for more long detailed notes on comparative bathroom habits, as well as frequency. Apparently twice a day, as they do in the East, effeminizes the people. As he quotes "c'est la constipation qui rend l'homme rigoureux"

"Indeed he lieth who hath said that all of loveliness
Was pent in Joseph; in thy charms there's many and many a Joe!"

Concubine's trouser-fastening ribbon says "PROPERTY OF THE SULTAN" in expensive gold lettering.

That's sweet.