| eggshaped
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| 106804. Wed Oct 25, 2006 1:35 pm |
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| You're too Jung to understand. |
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| 106809. Wed Oct 25, 2006 1:42 pm |
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| Boom boom crash. |
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| Tas
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| 106828. Wed Oct 25, 2006 2:19 pm |
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That'd be both barrels of the shotgun, and eggy falling out of the fifth story window...
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| eggshaped
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| 106831. Wed Oct 25, 2006 2:24 pm |
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| <decides against joining the "Should some of us make some comedy?" thread> |
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| Tas
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| 106840. Wed Oct 25, 2006 2:49 pm |
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Comedy is supposed to be funny....and not incur mass groans and sighs from the audience.
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| costean
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| 106843. Wed Oct 25, 2006 2:58 pm |
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| eggshaped wrote: | Are we to take it that Hislop didn't use the actual word?
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Well I've just searched through the online text of this book, and the only use of the word phallus/phallic that I can find is relating to Isis' consecration of the phallus of a dismembered Horus. |
Eggshaped, I have done some checking - something I should have done in the first place - and I have to say I think you are right. If the link above is a full transcript of his book - which looks probable - then he didn't say this. I withdraw this unreservedly. Anyway the dead can't sue.
I will reopen the bidding at 1924.
| Quote: | | There are still in existence today remarkable specimens of original phallic symbols . . . steeples on the churches . . . and obelisks . . . all show the influence of our phallus-worshipping ancestors,” Eichler, The Customs of Mankind, p. 55. 1924 |
http://www.british-israel.us/16.html
A bit dodgy, I know, as it is a quote of a quote (as was Hislop's). |
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| gerontius grumpus
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| 107099. Thu Oct 26, 2006 1:02 am |
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Aaargghhh stop ignoring me, I made relevant point, on thread , about shot towers and everyone's still whittering on about phallic symbols. Why didn't you just start a phallic symbols thread.
By the way, calling a penis a phallic symbol is like calling the British army a paramilitary organisation or saying water's wet (water is the agent that makes other things wet).
Oh no you've got me doing it now grrrr. |
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| djgordy
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| 107213. Thu Oct 26, 2006 11:10 am |
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| gerontius grumpus wrote: | | Aaargghhh stop ignoring me, |
Who said that? Did anyone hear a noise? Sorry, my mistake.
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| costean
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| 107235. Thu Oct 26, 2006 12:28 pm |
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| gerontius grumpus wrote: | Aaargghhh stop ignoring me, I made relevant point, on thread , about shot towers and everyone's still whittering on about phallic symbols. Why didn't you just start a phallic symbols thread.
By the way, calling a penis a phallic symbol is like calling the British army a paramilitary organisation or saying water's wet (water is the agent that makes other things wet).
Oh no you've got me doing it now grrrr. |
Gerontius, this is my fault. The reason phallic symbols came to dominate this thread is that I was making a bit of an arse of myself in putting forward wild, unsubstantiated claims on subjects I know nothing about. And, quite rightly, I was taken to task about this – the baying mob, (ok, bit of an exaggeration), running me to ground pretty smartly.
Anyway, back to phallic symbols – as well as the earliest inappropriate use of the term ‘phallic symbol’. There is also the question of the most inappropriate use of the term.
Vladimir Putin was recently described as Russia’s phallic symbol – although not in total seriousness:
| Quote: | The Prosecutor’s Office has launched criminal proceedings against the editor-in-chief of a Russian Internet newspaper for calling President Putin “Russia’s phallic symbol”.
In his article called “Putin as Russia’s Phallic Symbol”, Rakhmankov argued that Putin’s influence on his audience was so great that even beasts in Russian zoos responded to his call to breed immediately.
“Actually, Putin does look like the country’s phallic symbol — in all senses. So why not secure the symbolism officially in his address� We can now start producing new souvenirs — the president’s head as a penis’s head” says the article, seen by its author as “harmless satire”. |
http://www.mosnews.com/news/2006/05/23/fallicputin.shtml
There is also a tantalising glimpse on Google of Charlie Chaplin as a phallic symbol.
It returns the following – but unfortunately it is a ‘pay’ article.
PEP Web - The Dutch Psycho-Analytical Society
Charlie Chaplin as phallic symbol. Dr. Adolph F. Meijer
While it impossible to know what the author meant without reading the article, Charlie Chaplin is not the first thing/person that springs to mind when the subject of phallic symbols crops up. |
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| djgordy
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| 107274. Thu Oct 26, 2006 2:21 pm |
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| costean wrote: |
The reason phallic symbols came to dominate this thread is that I was making a bit of an arse of myself |
Phallic symbols..... arse? Is there something you would like to discuss with us?
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| costean
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| 107279. Thu Oct 26, 2006 2:36 pm |
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| There are many things I would be delighted to discuss. Erm, I think this particular one is best left to me and suitably qualified medical professionals. You've got me thinking about the Freudian unconscious now. Look what you've gone and done..... I suppose it's my fault for starting the whole thing in the first place. |
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| gerontius grumpus
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| 108025. Sat Oct 28, 2006 12:38 am |
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| As a mere professional allied to medicine, I would like to point out that my comment about the lead shot cooling as it falls through the air was a good and valid one. |
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