Slug's Illustration for Roman Sex Token col.

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Roman War Pigs must fit in there, somewhere.
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=279280&highlight=pigs+flaming

One of the truly great SDMB Threads.

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[QUOTE=Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor]
Roman War Pigs must fit in there, somewhere.
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=279280&highlight=pigs+flaming

One of the truly great SDMB Threads.
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I remember that thread! I even participated in it. Good times.

RR

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[QUOTE=AskNott]
Here’s the answer, or part of it. In the world of trick horse riding, the act of riding two horses at once while standing with one foot on each horse is called “Roman style” horse riding. That brings up a number of possible puns, and that fits Slug’s style.

She’s a Roman whore.

The whore’s riding is Roman style.

Roman style sex, IIRC, involves multiple partners.

As for the whip, well, the customer’s been a very bad boy. Note his studded collar.

Why’s she riding pigs? Hard to say. However, riding and getting porked are what a whore does for a living.

Knowing Signorino, there are sight gags I haven’t spotted.
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You know Sig? Oh, you poor thing. . . .
While I’m here I might as well take a shot at it. So she’s riding pigs? I can imaging a feminist characterizing the character’s job as “riding pigs”. :rolleyes:

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I think maybe it has something to do with this line from the question:

Lustful Roman soldiers in far-flung corners of the empire apparently used them [the coins] to overcome the problem of expressing their specific desires in the local dialect.

In other words, if you don’t use the coin with the approriate act displayed on it, and you try to describe the act in the local dialect, you’re likely to wind up with a woman riding two pigs instead of…well, instead of what you really wanted.

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On second thought, he’s got an X token, and she appears to have an X token, and he appears to like what he sees, so maybe an X token… I can’t be bothered.

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I’m with BJMoose.

“Hey, baby, how much?”
“You meerkat!”
“Don’t be stuck up, baby; show me your tits!”
“Eastern gray kangaroo!”
“You know you want to.”
“Vole!”
“Suck on this, baby.”
“Pig!”
“Oh. Sorry.”