So back in Rome during the 1st century BCE, these guys Aurelius and Furius were talking smack about Gaius Valerius Catullus' poetry. They believed that his poems were "mollici" and probably that his mommy bought his togas for him. Anyway, whatever they said, it gave him a chippius maximus on his shoulder and he came back at them harder than Jay-Z at Nas.
The result was Catullus 16- a poem considered so offensive, it wasn't even fully translated into English until the 20th century.
Edit: Removed the actual poem after my mother read it and had a cow. If you're still curious, its over here at Wikipedia.
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