I was reading a collection of graffiti from 1731 called "The Merry-Thought" last night— Nigel Rees before Nigel Rees— and somehow I had not expected this joke to be so old. More about the book:

The Public Domain Review

Loos, Lewdness, and Literature: Tales from the Boghouse

In the early 1730s, a mysterious editor (known only as “Hurlothrumbo”) committed to print a remarkable anthology: transcriptions of the graffit...

I can't now find where I found the scan, but Gutenberg has the text:

Project Gutenberg

The Merry-Thought: or the Glass-Window and Bog-House Miscellany. Part 1

Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.

I have some thoughts about solving part 4 of the Kryptos sculpture. Is anyone knowledgeable about such things who could talk about them? Not necessarily privately, but I've posted toots about them a while ago that got no attention, and I want to talk about some ideas I've had since then. Can you boost if you think it'll help find discussion? #kryptos #cryptography