mel brooks pre-goatse’s goatse
in 1976, one mel brooks directed (and starred in…) a film called silent movie. that film features the earliest obvious goatse i’ve ever documented, and for your browsing pleasure, i provide this documentation to you:

to save your eyes, the text reads:
our fingers are in everything
salut, mr. brooks. genius. sheer genius.
update [2006.07.21] more explorations over at boingboing. i still think brooks was first…
Just watching “Silent Movie” here on TV in Europe, and noticed the Engulf and Devour symbol and just instantly saw the goatse! So I searched for “Silent Movie” “goatse” and found this page…..
Comment by Duncan Hill — July 25, 2008 @ 5:48 pm
I was looking for the Engulf&Devour symbol and came across Satan knows how many stupid porn pictures before I came across this one.
Comment by Anton Berg — August 30, 2008 @ 9:02 am