"I'm really sorry that I deleted your penis"
January 22, 2016 11:47 AM Subscribe
Someone draws a large penis in the snow in a canal in Gothenburg, Sweden. A concerned citizen removes it when the City decides it is too dangerous to remove due to thin ice. This is what happens next.
The As It Happens article gives a summary of events but the interview is worth hearing.
Snow penises (penii?) previously.
The As It Happens article gives a summary of events but the interview is worth hearing.
Snow penises (penii?) previously.
I told y'all I didn't do it.
posted by louche mustachio at 11:52 AM on January 22, 2016 [2 favorites]
posted by louche mustachio at 11:52 AM on January 22, 2016 [2 favorites]
Now, was that so hard?
posted by RolandOfEld at 11:53 AM on January 22, 2016 [8 favorites]
posted by RolandOfEld at 11:53 AM on January 22, 2016 [8 favorites]
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA OMFG HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA thanks so much for posting this.
posted by Annika Cicada at 11:53 AM on January 22, 2016 [6 favorites]
posted by Annika Cicada at 11:53 AM on January 22, 2016 [6 favorites]
Think twice, act once.
Next year he's gonna make a snowman.
posted by mule98J at 11:55 AM on January 22, 2016
Next year he's gonna make a snowman.
posted by mule98J at 11:55 AM on January 22, 2016
I posted this on my Facebook page and was reminded by an old classmate that a boy I had a crush on my freshman year and later found out was a Jehovah's Witness shoveled a fifty foot dick into the snow on the football field and as punishment the coach made him shovel the whole field.
I always wondered what I saw in him and that answered so many questions.
posted by louche mustachio at 11:56 AM on January 22, 2016 [12 favorites]
I always wondered what I saw in him and that answered so many questions.
posted by louche mustachio at 11:56 AM on January 22, 2016 [12 favorites]
Imagine how much larger it would have been if it was warm out.
posted by sebastienbailard at 11:57 AM on January 22, 2016 [38 favorites]
posted by sebastienbailard at 11:57 AM on January 22, 2016 [38 favorites]
Take a listen to our interview. And here's Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds with "Fifteen Feet of Pure White Snow":
Someone just won a dare or something.
posted by Seamus at 11:57 AM on January 22, 2016 [15 favorites]
Someone just won a dare or something.
posted by Seamus at 11:57 AM on January 22, 2016 [15 favorites]
I heard this interview in the car last night. I love how Carol Off "accidentally" asks, "Just how big is your penis?" before quickly adding "… I mean the penis you made."
posted by Kabanos at 11:59 AM on January 22, 2016 [22 favorites]
posted by Kabanos at 11:59 AM on January 22, 2016 [22 favorites]
"I think people around the world are thinking, and they will do much bigger penises than this one. This is only the start."
This is the origin story for my new favorite superhero.
posted by MCMikeNamara at 12:01 PM on January 22, 2016 [13 favorites]
This is the origin story for my new favorite superhero.
posted by MCMikeNamara at 12:01 PM on January 22, 2016 [13 favorites]
Carol Off is a national treasure.
posted by Kreiger at 12:01 PM on January 22, 2016 [10 favorites]
posted by Kreiger at 12:01 PM on January 22, 2016 [10 favorites]
Once again I must bring attention to the Cerne Giant.
posted by merlynkline at 12:04 PM on January 22, 2016 [9 favorites]
posted by merlynkline at 12:04 PM on January 22, 2016 [9 favorites]
That's a seriously entertaining and dramatic video.
posted by inconsequentialist at 12:09 PM on January 22, 2016
posted by inconsequentialist at 12:09 PM on January 22, 2016
It's not the size of your snow penis, it's the social media coverage that counts.
posted by GenjiandProust at 12:10 PM on January 22, 2016 [4 favorites]
posted by GenjiandProust at 12:10 PM on January 22, 2016 [4 favorites]
"I think people around the world are thinking, and they will do much bigger penises than this one. This is only the start."
This is the origin story for my new favorite superhero.
Or perhaps it's merely the first in a fresh wave of Joker-inspired boner crimes.
posted by Strange Interlude at 12:11 PM on January 22, 2016
This is the origin story for my new favorite superhero.
Or perhaps it's merely the first in a fresh wave of Joker-inspired boner crimes.
posted by Strange Interlude at 12:11 PM on January 22, 2016
This is only the start
Naw, this contest has been going on for a long time. We put up the Washington Monument, France puts up the Eiffel Tower. The Soviets send their spacedick into orbit, we send our spacedick to the moon.
posted by dgaicun at 12:12 PM on January 22, 2016 [5 favorites]
Naw, this contest has been going on for a long time. We put up the Washington Monument, France puts up the Eiffel Tower. The Soviets send their spacedick into orbit, we send our spacedick to the moon.
posted by dgaicun at 12:12 PM on January 22, 2016 [5 favorites]
Meanwhile, in Russian tabloid news, a giant snow penis kills a young couple in the Altai region.
posted by Kabanos at 12:15 PM on January 22, 2016 [6 favorites]
posted by Kabanos at 12:15 PM on January 22, 2016 [6 favorites]
I heard this interview in the car last night. I love how Carol Off "accidentally" asks, "Just how big is your penis?" before quickly adding "… I mean the penis you made."
Me too. I was giggling so hard that I thought I might have to pull off to the side until it passed. The deadpan from both of them was awesome.
posted by Jalliah at 12:16 PM on January 22, 2016 [1 favorite]
Me too. I was giggling so hard that I thought I might have to pull off to the side until it passed. The deadpan from both of them was awesome.
posted by Jalliah at 12:16 PM on January 22, 2016 [1 favorite]
Yeah, me too. Except for the giggling part. I've got some kind of pulled muscle on my rib so giggling=pain for now.
posted by any portmanteau in a storm at 12:18 PM on January 22, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by any portmanteau in a storm at 12:18 PM on January 22, 2016 [1 favorite]
This is the kind of story that renews your faith in the human spirit.
posted by phunniemee at 12:21 PM on January 22, 2016 [8 favorites]
posted by phunniemee at 12:21 PM on January 22, 2016 [8 favorites]
Snow blower.
Mnmnm mhm hmmn hehn heh heh heh hn hm.
posted by petebest at 12:22 PM on January 22, 2016 [8 favorites]
Mnmnm mhm hmmn hehn heh heh heh hn hm.
posted by petebest at 12:22 PM on January 22, 2016 [8 favorites]
snow job
posted by pyramid termite at 12:23 PM on January 22, 2016 [3 favorites]
posted by pyramid termite at 12:23 PM on January 22, 2016 [3 favorites]
So I am a major elitist when it comes to penis drawings and seeing this just reminded me of this one time in college when I was in charge of a whole floor of freshmen (think 30 or so students) in one of the residence halls. A bunch of the boys on the floor were rushing a particular frat, and as part of their application process they had to do various things around campus to earn them brownie points with the brothers or whatever. One of those tasks apparently involved "leaving their mark" on certain parts of the campus. Somehow this translated to "vandalize Hermione Granger's floor with sharpie", and I woke up one morning, went on patrol, and found myself surrounded by really, REALLY bad dick doodles.
Oh hell no, I think to myself. Not on my floor.
As it happens, that same night I was required to hold a mandatory floor meeting. All of my kids gathered in our floor's small study lounge and I went through everything on my list and the whole time I pretended like we weren't surrounded by really horribly drawn little penises, even though there were barely stifled sniggers coming from each cluster of students seated around me. Just before everyone was about to leave I pulled a Steve Jobs and said, "Oh! One more thing." Then I turned to the whiteboard behind me, grabbed a marker, and produced a very large and completely anatomically correct drawing of a human penis. Everyone got very, very quiet.
I turned around. "Here's the deal. If you can't draw a dick better looking than this, your self portraits needn't be shared with the rest of us. Otherwise we shall all just assume that whatever doodle you've left on the wall is what your manhood really looks like, and somehow I don't think that's the legacy you really want to leave here at [alma mater]. Oh, and if your balls are really this big," I gestured at one of the more egregious examples of vandalism that was on the wall adjacent, "you might want to consider stopping by the student health center, as I'm told testicles of that size can be pre-cancerous. Just a thought! Thank you!"
Then I erased my masterpiece and bid them all good night.
By the next morning, all the tacky little penis drawings were gone, and there was a sweet note on my own message board which read, "All hail [Hermione] the dick master of [dorm name]". :)
posted by Hermione Granger at 12:28 PM on January 22, 2016 [146 favorites]
Oh hell no, I think to myself. Not on my floor.
As it happens, that same night I was required to hold a mandatory floor meeting. All of my kids gathered in our floor's small study lounge and I went through everything on my list and the whole time I pretended like we weren't surrounded by really horribly drawn little penises, even though there were barely stifled sniggers coming from each cluster of students seated around me. Just before everyone was about to leave I pulled a Steve Jobs and said, "Oh! One more thing." Then I turned to the whiteboard behind me, grabbed a marker, and produced a very large and completely anatomically correct drawing of a human penis. Everyone got very, very quiet.
I turned around. "Here's the deal. If you can't draw a dick better looking than this, your self portraits needn't be shared with the rest of us. Otherwise we shall all just assume that whatever doodle you've left on the wall is what your manhood really looks like, and somehow I don't think that's the legacy you really want to leave here at [alma mater]. Oh, and if your balls are really this big," I gestured at one of the more egregious examples of vandalism that was on the wall adjacent, "you might want to consider stopping by the student health center, as I'm told testicles of that size can be pre-cancerous. Just a thought! Thank you!"
Then I erased my masterpiece and bid them all good night.
By the next morning, all the tacky little penis drawings were gone, and there was a sweet note on my own message board which read, "All hail [Hermione] the dick master of [dorm name]". :)
posted by Hermione Granger at 12:28 PM on January 22, 2016 [146 favorites]
dgaicun: They put their dick in the hospital, we put our dick in the morgue
posted by JDHarper at 12:41 PM on January 22, 2016 [11 favorites]
posted by JDHarper at 12:41 PM on January 22, 2016 [11 favorites]
The thing about this story that I love most is that he didn't erase the first penis because he was offended, but because he thought that's what the community wanted. And then he drew the bigger one after the community was sad about the first one being gone because he felt bad for having deleted the first one. See, people, we can get along!!!
posted by Sophie1 at 12:41 PM on January 22, 2016 [48 favorites]
posted by Sophie1 at 12:41 PM on January 22, 2016 [48 favorites]
Any Amerian mefites care to make their own snow penises this weekend so we can see if the reactions will be any different?
posted by any portmanteau in a storm at 12:49 PM on January 22, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by any portmanteau in a storm at 12:49 PM on January 22, 2016 [1 favorite]
So I am a major elitist when it comes to penis drawings and seeing this just reminded me of this one time in college when I was in charge of a whole floor of freshmen (think 30 or so students) in one of the residence halls.
...
Oh hell no, I think to myself. Not on my floor.
...
By the next morning, all the tacky little penis drawings were gone, and there was a sweet note on my own message board which read, "All hail [Hermione] the dick master of [dorm name]". :)
posted by Hermione Granger
OK I guess people aren't kidding when they say the later Harry Potter books get more serious about taking on adult themes
posted by the phlegmatic king at 12:49 PM on January 22, 2016 [40 favorites]
...
Oh hell no, I think to myself. Not on my floor.
...
By the next morning, all the tacky little penis drawings were gone, and there was a sweet note on my own message board which read, "All hail [Hermione] the dick master of [dorm name]". :)
posted by Hermione Granger
OK I guess people aren't kidding when they say the later Harry Potter books get more serious about taking on adult themes
posted by the phlegmatic king at 12:49 PM on January 22, 2016 [40 favorites]
The Soviets send their spacedick into orbit, we send our spacedick to the moon.
Culminating in The Big Space Fuck.
Other random thoughts: Imagine how big it would be if it weren't so cold.
As one descended from Holmbergs, today I take pride in my Swedish heritage!
posted by TedW at 12:51 PM on January 22, 2016 [3 favorites]
Culminating in The Big Space Fuck.
Other random thoughts: Imagine how big it would be if it weren't so cold.
As one descended from Holmbergs, today I take pride in my Swedish heritage!
posted by TedW at 12:51 PM on January 22, 2016 [3 favorites]
the wardens strode out onto the river to rub the penis out
I'm pretty sure that "rubbing one out" in public is a crime.
posted by Greg_Ace at 12:57 PM on January 22, 2016 [11 favorites]
I'm pretty sure that "rubbing one out" in public is a crime.
posted by Greg_Ace at 12:57 PM on January 22, 2016 [11 favorites]
(Pic caption, from the second link in the post:) Emilian Sava scrubbed the original snow penis from the canal.
But he apparently felt compelled to give it a cock ring first.
posted by Greg_Ace at 1:00 PM on January 22, 2016 [1 favorite]
But he apparently felt compelled to give it a cock ring first.
posted by Greg_Ace at 1:00 PM on January 22, 2016 [1 favorite]
okay so I had forgotten about that Vonnegut story, and so what I thought that "Big Space Fuck" link was going to be about was the Apollo-Soyuz docking project from the 1970s, where the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. worked together on a mission to dock an Apollo spacecraft with a Soyuz spacecraft, a mission for which both sides had to collaborate on designing an androgynous docking system, "androgynous" in part because neither country wanted their spacecraft to be seen as getting penetrated by the other country's spacecraft.
sometimes, the patriarchy is hilarious.
posted by You Can't Tip a Buick at 1:02 PM on January 22, 2016 [53 favorites]
sometimes, the patriarchy is hilarious.
posted by You Can't Tip a Buick at 1:02 PM on January 22, 2016 [53 favorites]
#notallmen
posted by mrnutty at 1:05 PM on January 22, 2016 [2 favorites]
posted by mrnutty at 1:05 PM on January 22, 2016 [2 favorites]
8========D~~ lol
posted by save alive nothing that breatheth at 1:11 PM on January 22, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by save alive nothing that breatheth at 1:11 PM on January 22, 2016 [1 favorite]
I said this earlier on Facebook, but if I were a headline writer given this kind of opportunity to actually use the word "phallus" appropriately, I would go for it.
posted by yhbc at 1:46 PM on January 22, 2016 [2 favorites]
posted by yhbc at 1:46 PM on January 22, 2016 [2 favorites]
"I think people around the world are thinking, and they will do much bigger penises than this one. This is only the start."
Canada, this sounds like a call to arms. I mean, we have the world's biggest beaver so I guess we need to break out the snow blowers and get the Yammi started. I know the perfect place.
posted by flyingfox at 1:48 PM on January 22, 2016 [2 favorites]
Canada, this sounds like a call to arms. I mean, we have the world's biggest beaver so I guess we need to break out the snow blowers and get the Yammi started. I know the perfect place.
posted by flyingfox at 1:48 PM on January 22, 2016 [2 favorites]
I heave the feeling this is the sort of thing that in the past lead to a chalk man being drawn on the hillsides of England.
posted by happyroach at 2:15 PM on January 22, 2016 [8 favorites]
posted by happyroach at 2:15 PM on January 22, 2016 [8 favorites]
I also heave the feeling.
posted by dances_with_sneetches at 2:20 PM on January 22, 2016 [2 favorites]
posted by dances_with_sneetches at 2:20 PM on January 22, 2016 [2 favorites]
I have a big field of snow right behind me...I'm seriously compelled....
posted by amanda at 2:21 PM on January 22, 2016 [3 favorites]
posted by amanda at 2:21 PM on January 22, 2016 [3 favorites]
Carol Off is a national treasure.
Yeah. Shame they dug her up.
carol off v. 1. To speak loudly and slowly at a foreigner in a condescending fashion, esp. over the phone
posted by Sys Rq at 2:22 PM on January 22, 2016
Yeah. Shame they dug her up.
carol off v. 1. To speak loudly and slowly at a foreigner in a condescending fashion, esp. over the phone
posted by Sys Rq at 2:22 PM on January 22, 2016
I triple dog dare someone to put their tongue on that frozen pole.
posted by Kabanos at 2:25 PM on January 22, 2016 [2 favorites]
posted by Kabanos at 2:25 PM on January 22, 2016 [2 favorites]
It's not the size of your snow penis, it's the social media coverage that counts.
I just flew back from Sweden today. This event made the local news viewer on the Arlanda Express train to the airport.
Totally improved my mood during a long travel day. Made me so much sadder to leave though.
posted by rhythm and booze at 3:00 PM on January 22, 2016 [4 favorites]
I just flew back from Sweden today. This event made the local news viewer on the Arlanda Express train to the airport.
Totally improved my mood during a long travel day. Made me so much sadder to leave though.
posted by rhythm and booze at 3:00 PM on January 22, 2016 [4 favorites]
In concurrence with this story, the University of Michigan should return the shrine of the lobster cock to the first floor Men's bathroom toilet stall in Mason Hall. That made for some fun reading while doing business back when I was in school.
Thanks for posting, and yes, do listen to the audio interview.
posted by JoeXIII007 at 3:08 PM on January 22, 2016
Thanks for posting, and yes, do listen to the audio interview.
posted by JoeXIII007 at 3:08 PM on January 22, 2016
Just before everyone was about to leave I pulled a Steve Jobs and said, "Oh! One more thing." Then I turned to the whiteboard behind me, grabbed a marker, and produced a very large and completely anatomically correct drawing of a human penis. Everyone got very, very quiet.My wife has a similar story from one of her high-school classes where one student decided to quite visibly work on a penis doodle instead of paying attention to her lecture. He hadn't considered the risks of trying this tactic in a anatomy and physiology class, however, because the reaction he actually got was a having his work graded in front of the class and a homework assignment to bring it up to passing by correcting the scale, adding missing details from a reference book, and labeling it correctly in Latin.
I turned around. "Here's the deal. If you can't draw a dick better looking than this, your self portraits needn't be shared with the rest of us.
She reported that classroom management was easier for the rest of the year because word had spread that it was easier to play it straight in her class.
posted by adamsc at 3:17 PM on January 22, 2016 [19 favorites]
Sorry seems to be the hardest word.
posted by MonkeyToes at 3:17 PM on January 22, 2016 [2 favorites]
posted by MonkeyToes at 3:17 PM on January 22, 2016 [2 favorites]
So, it looks like snow penises are shaved, since there's no hair at all..
Alopecia universalis...
posted by juiceCake at 3:20 PM on January 22, 2016
Alopecia universalis...
posted by juiceCake at 3:20 PM on January 22, 2016
I'm glad CBC got Off on that penis.
posted by crazylegs at 3:22 PM on January 22, 2016 [3 favorites]
posted by crazylegs at 3:22 PM on January 22, 2016 [3 favorites]
He just wanted to show off his new Zamboner machine.
posted by lagomorphius at 3:49 PM on January 22, 2016 [5 favorites]
posted by lagomorphius at 3:49 PM on January 22, 2016 [5 favorites]
I am disappointed to see how long it took someone to reference the "rub the penis out" line. Come on people.
posted by bongo_x at 4:01 PM on January 22, 2016 [2 favorites]
posted by bongo_x at 4:01 PM on January 22, 2016 [2 favorites]
So. Mr. Roquette got some junk mail in a plain Manila envelope. It was an advertisement for help He DOES NOT need in the enhancement and endurance department.
Seriously, this was a really weird thing to get by snail - mail.
When I told him what it was he was highly embarrassed. He has dyslexia. I help him with reading things. I think he was embarrassed I saw it too. Good thing I have medical training...
Speaking of which, before cataract surgery my eye-sight was really bad. On exam was on a computer. A computer with a REALLY BIG screen. I had to identify all parts of a very large dick pic. Which, due to the enlargement was pretty fuzzy. Talk about embarrassing!
posted by Katjusa Roquette at 4:37 PM on January 22, 2016 [1 favorite]
Seriously, this was a really weird thing to get by snail - mail.
When I told him what it was he was highly embarrassed. He has dyslexia. I help him with reading things. I think he was embarrassed I saw it too. Good thing I have medical training...
Speaking of which, before cataract surgery my eye-sight was really bad. On exam was on a computer. A computer with a REALLY BIG screen. I had to identify all parts of a very large dick pic. Which, due to the enlargement was pretty fuzzy. Talk about embarrassing!
posted by Katjusa Roquette at 4:37 PM on January 22, 2016 [1 favorite]
So. Mr. Roquette got some junk mail
I see what you did there.
posted by cynical pinnacle at 4:50 PM on January 22, 2016 [4 favorites]
I see what you did there.
posted by cynical pinnacle at 4:50 PM on January 22, 2016 [4 favorites]
And today's Swedish Word Of The Day is “Snösnopp”.
posted by acb at 4:58 PM on January 22, 2016 [4 favorites]
posted by acb at 4:58 PM on January 22, 2016 [4 favorites]
But when the wardens strode out onto the river to rub the penis out,
I see what you did there.
posted by desuetude at 5:27 PM on January 22, 2016
I see what you did there.
posted by desuetude at 5:27 PM on January 22, 2016
Any Amerian mefites care to make their own snow penises this weekend so we can see if the reactions will be any different?
Well, there is an abundance of snow in D.C. this weekend.
posted by yesster at 5:30 PM on January 22, 2016
Well, there is an abundance of snow in D.C. this weekend.
posted by yesster at 5:30 PM on January 22, 2016
And today's Swedish Word Of The Day is “Snösnopp”.
Gigantisk snösnopp.
posted by MonkeyToes at 5:37 PM on January 22, 2016 [1 favorite]
Gigantisk snösnopp.
posted by MonkeyToes at 5:37 PM on January 22, 2016 [1 favorite]
I'm glad CBC got Off on that penis.
Carol of the Balls?
posted by Kabanos at 5:51 PM on January 22, 2016 [1 favorite]
Carol of the Balls?
posted by Kabanos at 5:51 PM on January 22, 2016 [1 favorite]
Modern competition with the Nazca Plains.....
posted by Redhush at 6:48 PM on January 22, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by Redhush at 6:48 PM on January 22, 2016 [1 favorite]
Do you want to build a snow dick?
We can it hard and white
We can make on the lakefront, by the highway
It won't even take all night!
We used to do bunnies
Now it's cocks
And they're posted on internet sites!
Do you want to build a snow dick?
It doesn't have to be a snow dick...
OK, fine.
posted by eriko at 6:56 PM on January 22, 2016 [5 favorites]
We can it hard and white
We can make on the lakefront, by the highway
It won't even take all night!
We used to do bunnies
Now it's cocks
And they're posted on internet sites!
Do you want to build a snow dick?
It doesn't have to be a snow dick...
OK, fine.
posted by eriko at 6:56 PM on January 22, 2016 [5 favorites]
This pairs well with tonight's Facebook Sean Bean/GoT meme: "BRACE YOURSELVES... SNOW PICS OF PEOPLE'S DECKS ARE COMING."
I'm restraining myself from linking to this article and saying "Snow decks? FEH. Snösnopps!"
posted by MonkeyToes at 7:01 PM on January 22, 2016
I'm restraining myself from linking to this article and saying "Snow decks? FEH. Snösnopps!"
posted by MonkeyToes at 7:01 PM on January 22, 2016
If you rub it out too much will you go snow blind?
posted by TedW at 7:10 PM on January 22, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by TedW at 7:10 PM on January 22, 2016 [1 favorite]
Meanwhile, in Russian tabloid news, a giant snow penis kills a young couple in the Altai region.
In post-Soviet Russia, snow penis deletes you!
posted by e-man at 8:35 PM on January 22, 2016 [3 favorites]
In post-Soviet Russia, snow penis deletes you!
posted by e-man at 8:35 PM on January 22, 2016 [3 favorites]
If you rub it out too much will you go snow blind?
No, but if you leave it out on a frozen river all day you'll get a most unfortunate case of frostbite.
posted by Greg_Ace at 9:15 PM on January 22, 2016
No, but if you leave it out on a frozen river all day you'll get a most unfortunate case of frostbite.
posted by Greg_Ace at 9:15 PM on January 22, 2016
I'm glad CBC got Off on that penis.
Carol of the Balls?
DING DONG
posted by aihal at 3:06 AM on January 23, 2016
Carol of the Balls?
DING DONG
posted by aihal at 3:06 AM on January 23, 2016
Snow penises (penii?)
The proper plurals of penis are either penises or penes, with the latter being the Latin plural nominative/vocative form. It's a third declension noun, not a second declension one.
posted by sbutler at 3:11 AM on January 23, 2016 [6 favorites]
The proper plurals of penis are either penises or penes, with the latter being the Latin plural nominative/vocative form. It's a third declension noun, not a second declension one.
posted by sbutler at 3:11 AM on January 23, 2016 [6 favorites]
+1 for "penes" but +1000 for "penises". We're writing English here, not Latin.
posted by rum-soaked space hobo at 6:37 AM on January 23, 2016
posted by rum-soaked space hobo at 6:37 AM on January 23, 2016
Also "penii" and "virii" (protip: "viruses" and it had no plural in Latin any more than "mud" does in English) seem to be contortions made by people who had to write "radii" in geometry class. Yes, "radius" becomes "radii". It's that final 'i' that is part of the plural, not the pair of them.
But again, really, you're writing English. Use English pluralisation rules. Let's get the Latin out of our non-romance language.
posted by rum-soaked space hobo at 6:39 AM on January 23, 2016
But again, really, you're writing English. Use English pluralisation rules. Let's get the Latin out of our non-romance language.
posted by rum-soaked space hobo at 6:39 AM on January 23, 2016
The important thing is that we agree that more than one kleenex are kleenices.
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 6:47 AM on January 23, 2016 [10 favorites]
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 6:47 AM on January 23, 2016 [10 favorites]
Kleenex is a mass noun. It doesn't do plural. You don't use a lot of kleenexes, you use a lot of kleenex. Take an antihistamine, for god's sake.
posted by Sys Rq at 7:29 AM on January 23, 2016
posted by Sys Rq at 7:29 AM on January 23, 2016
Let's get the Latin out of our non-romance language.
Latine delevit ab lingua Anglis? Supra corpus mortuum meum!
posted by eriko at 9:17 AM on January 23, 2016 [1 favorite]
Latine delevit ab lingua Anglis? Supra corpus mortuum meum!
posted by eriko at 9:17 AM on January 23, 2016 [1 favorite]
If I learned nothing else from The Bugle podcast, it's that this isn't a drawing of a wang, but the demarcation of the field of play for the roof game, explained here.
Although this looks like a winter variant popular in nordic countries that's played on ice instead of a roof.
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 9:45 AM on January 23, 2016 [2 favorites]
Although this looks like a winter variant popular in nordic countries that's played on ice instead of a roof.
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 9:45 AM on January 23, 2016 [2 favorites]
Hermione Granger: somehow I don't think that's the legacy you really want to leave here at [alma mater].
Missed opportunity of not using Hogwarts as the placeholder here.
posted by vibratory manner of working at 12:39 PM on January 23, 2016 [3 favorites]
Missed opportunity of not using Hogwarts as the placeholder here.
posted by vibratory manner of working at 12:39 PM on January 23, 2016 [3 favorites]
it had no plural in Latin any more than "mud" does in English.
"I miss the glorious muds of my homeland: the cold glutinous muds of rasputitsa with their promise of the new crop of potatoes; the warm embrace of the summer muds on the riverbanks of my youth and the malicious bite of the muds of autumn on our bare feet as we trekked back to the village school."
[sorry - couldn't resist]
posted by monotreme at 1:34 PM on January 23, 2016 [3 favorites]
"I miss the glorious muds of my homeland: the cold glutinous muds of rasputitsa with their promise of the new crop of potatoes; the warm embrace of the summer muds on the riverbanks of my youth and the malicious bite of the muds of autumn on our bare feet as we trekked back to the village school."
[sorry - couldn't resist]
posted by monotreme at 1:34 PM on January 23, 2016 [3 favorites]
Wanksy - 'This man is painting penises on potholes so the council has to take action'
posted by asok at 3:49 PM on January 23, 2016
posted by asok at 3:49 PM on January 23, 2016
Whichever it is (and whether it's penes or penises depends on how self-consciously clever one wishes to be), it's not penii, as that would be the plural of “penius” (which, presumably, means someone who thinks they're clever but, in really, are just a bit of a dick).
posted by acb at 11:50 AM on January 24, 2016
posted by acb at 11:50 AM on January 24, 2016
"I think people around the world are thinking, and they will do much bigger penises than this one. This is only the start."
It had already started on another world. Mimetic panspermia in action.
posted by homunculus at 12:46 PM on February 1, 2016
It had already started on another world. Mimetic panspermia in action.
posted by homunculus at 12:46 PM on February 1, 2016
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You gonna make snow angels?
No, we're going to have a snow bris.
posted by BrotherCaine at 11:52 AM on January 22, 2016 [2 favorites]