

The solution to the riddle, once the audience has reached the prurient conclusion and gotten a good laugh, is then revealed to be “a key.” I’m not going to pretend that I cracked up or anything, but it does prove that the risibility of the penis has been part of our shared culture for as long as we’ve had a culture. Of equal length, which he has often filled before. With his dangling head that well-known hole,

To be more direct, there’s a little humor node in my brain that lights up when I see things like “goblin penis.” I’m not alone-one of the earliest dick jokes comes from the the 10th century Exeter Book, which features this riddle: I don’t believe in categorizing humor as “juvenile” or “highbrow” or any other classism-tinged, thought-terminating terms, so I’ll just say that my personal brand of comedy is very physical, very coarse, very goofy, in a lineage that tracks from Juvenal to Jackass.

The original art, as submitted by Peruvian artist Laynes, featured a nude creature impaled on one of the Serpent’s spikes, hands raised in devil horns and doodled phallus fully displayed. Recently, Wizards of the Coast Tweeted that the Secret Lair with Stonecoil Serpent had been advertised with incomplete art-something of corporate damage control, as if anything, that particular Serpent’s art was a little too complete. If you want to skip that discussion, start with the PG-rated header.) Lots of discussion of genitalia, specifically the penis, before we segue into discussing the history of “X”-cost creatures. [CONTENT NOTE: Really let my hair down on this one.
