Raiders of the Lost Cock

September 22, 2003 1:00 PM

Scientists Find World's Oldest Known Genitals - A team led by Prof. Jason Dunlop from Humboldt University has found the world's oldest genitals. This new find is older than the previous record holder (discovered by Prof. David Siveter of the University of Leicester) by about 300 million years. The record holder for world's oldest pile of vomit remains unchallenged. Images of whip-wielding biologists in fedoras escaping giant rolling boulder traps to discover penis fossils flood my mind.
posted by Joey Michaels (9 comments total)

Has Anna Nicole Smith been notified of this?
posted by PrinceValium at 1:14 PM on September 22, 2003

That's it for PrinceValium, you've been great, thanks for coming out!
posted by jon_kill at 1:18 PM on September 22, 2003

Man, even at the upper echelon of science, you have guys basing their research goals on a Beavis and Butthead episode.
posted by mathowie at 1:50 PM on September 22, 2003

Wow. Cool. Looks like my dog's vomit, although on a bigger scale.
posted by carter at 1:59 PM on September 22, 2003

i thought my ex-mother in law held the title?
posted by billybobtoo at 3:28 PM on September 22, 2003

Preserved within a male is a penis two-thirds the length of his body

So there's a reason for the name, eh?
posted by billsaysthis at 6:56 PM on September 22, 2003

Scientists Find World's Oldest Known Genitals

Now there’s a FPP headline for the ages. Nice work, Joey M.
posted by LeLiLo at 7:55 AM on September 23, 2003

I was sort of hoping it would become a Metafilter Tagline:

Metafilter: World's Oldest Known Genitals

You know, that kind of thing.
posted by Joey Michaels at 2:46 PM on September 23, 2003

I keep expecting to see that as a subject line on spam. "World's oldest genitals? Buy VIAGRA without a prescription!"
posted by kindall at 4:48 PM on September 23, 2003