Genser is as vulgar as Aretino. Not only is this one hot sea lion, but the catchword is "cum."

Genser is as vulgar as Aretino. Not only is this one hot sea lion, but the catchword is "cum."
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First posted on Twitter for #WoodcutWednesday on 29 May 2013: the original tweet.

Here endeth this leaf of the Commonplace Book, which ſheweth Genser is as vulgar as Aretino. Not only is this one hot sea lion…, the work of its first makers and not of this preſs; only the caption is the Senſeſhaper’s. Copied into this book the twenty-ninth day of May, 2013. Finis.

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