So what am I to make of these two events from this morning?
First, a pal emailed me, alerting me to the discovery of what is being interpreted by anthropologists as the earliest known Personal Massage Device, some 28,000 years old, in a cave in Tübingen, Baden-Wurttemberg. When I read that it measured 20 cm long by 3 cm wide, I did some very quick (and very wrong) mental calculation and imagined something rather unprepossessing in the old Trouser Snake department. Scoffing back to my correspondent, I made a joke about the low expectations of Stone Age Womanhood. Not until I entered "20 cm in inches" at Google Calculator did I realize that the thing is actually rather Digglerian, measuring in at a quite respectable 7.87401575 inches. (Yes, that last 0.00001575 of an inch makes all the difference. You think the old Peter-Meter doesn't measure that fine? Think again.)
Bet that sucker's cold. ("Warm it up for me, darling Glogg!" "Yes, but how...? Suppose I mastered...fire.... It might be just crazy enough to work!")
But the greatest thing about it, the thing that makes me just cackle like a hyena, is the BBC's caption: "It may also have been used to knap, or split, flints." Let's see you try that with your tallywackers, boys. At least you guys over 40. (Why, in my teen years I bet I coulda....)
You just know that in another few years if they keep digging in that same cave they're gonna find a blowup sex doll made of tanned mammoth hide and boars' bladders, complete with vibrating mouth feature (you shake it real hard). And the anthopologists are gonna tell us it doubled as a food locker. A life of privation enforced an admirable economy.... I imagine a hapless Stone Age would-be swinger begging his mate to do a three-way with it, and getting clocked with the family flint-knapper for his impertinence.
This whole instruments-of-self-abuse-doubling-as-household-implements thing brings us neatly around to the second strange event of this morning.
Lance Mannion
Lance remembers this advice to this day, apparently.
What I didn't mention was that I've been told that if you hold an 18-inch Husqvarna 346XP juuust right while you're cutting up that fallen branch -- well, you ain't gonna want to go back to your silly old vibrating bikini-razor is all I'm sayin'. That Husky'll get your attention. And knap a flint into the bargain.
I'm just passin' on the info. Just relayin' what I've been told.
Now I'll leave it up to greater minds than mine to work out the connections here, why the Howlingly Obvious Phallic Symbol suddenly thusts itself into my morning not once but twice. Yesterday Yoni, Lingam today, I guess.
I'll be over here on the floor, playing with my Lingam Logs.
(Yes, that is a photograph of me. That is exactly what I look like.)
9 comments:
The artifact appears to be too highly polished to have been used for flint knapping. It is clearly some kind of "tool", but it does not look serviceable as a knapping hammer. Let's fall back on the old archaelogical default and call it a "ceremonial" object.
Me I think it's for the bum.
Now, if I'm willing to say that out loud, what on earth could I possibly have said that I would actually exhibit the taste to remove??
1-Neddie, love the Santa as lumberjack photo.
2-Bobby, perhaps something about Ms. A. Coulter and the "ceremonial artifact"?
I find it somewhat disturbing that this "artifact" has been so lovingly photographed.
I'm just going to say that our prehistoric foremothers must have been some tough broads. Either that, or our forefathers SUCKED in bed. Because while my experience with female genitalia is limited, it is not non-existent. Nor, frankly, is my experience with dildos. On both counts, I'm gonna go ahead and say "OUCH!!" Plus, lube must have been horribly primitive back then. It's a long stretch from woolly mammoth lard to “Wet” Platinum.
Oh those Swabians - bringing us Spaetzele, Einstein, Rommel, Mercedes-Benz and this.
Last night I got dinged (quite rightly) in my Comments section on the Rickie Lee post for having implied that women are uniquely ruled by their emotions.
Aieeee! How dare you imply that women are not entitled to express their emotions!
Shriek, scream!
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