“Assyrian urination omina” are three words I never knew could exist side by side, but Claude Mariottini introduced me to the phrase in his summary of Duane Smith’s recent article about that curious King James phrase, “him that pisseth against the wall” (in a handful of verses in 1 Sam and 1–Kgs).

PS: I’ve visited “the Wall” before on this blog, although I didn’t do anything to it!