The Random, Meaningless Announcements Thread 3!

[PoetPhilosopher]

Pretty soon the Scottish will be waking up, to bacon, eggs, chocolate, haggis, strawberry jam, bite sized little girl pastries, and keyboards. Yay me.

 

[Brickjectivity]

This morning I was awakened around 6:20am by some sort of warbling bird. Around 7 that stopped and was replaced by the cawing of crows.

 

[sun rise]

Even when high minded and accurate journalists report on what is really going on, it does not matter. People don't care.

 

[sun rise]

 

[Wu Wei]

 

[Stevicus]

 

[PoetPhilosopher]

I think I've had those.

 

[Wu Wei]

 

[Revoltingest]

 

[Stevicus]

The Bizarre Journey of Napoleon Bonaparte's Penis

In 1977, an investor paid $3,000 to purchase the dismembered penis of the famous military leader and emperor, Napoleon Bonaparte.


According to Time Magazine, the dismembered penis measured one and a half inches in length when it was purchased. The price was based on an unconventional “appraisal,” where each inch was deemed to be worth $1,000.

Perhaps the only thing stranger than the $3,000 purchase, is the dismembered organ’s 50-year trek across the Western World.

“The penis had taken on quite a mythic status,” said Tony Perrottet, author of Napoleon’s Privates: 2,500 Years of History Unzipped. “It was in a little leather presentation box, and it had been fried out in the air. It hadn’t been put in the formaldehyde, so it as rather the worse for wear, a bit like beef jerky.”

According to Perrottet, Napoleon’s doctor took the penis during Napoleon’s autopsy, after Napoleon died on the island of St. Helena in 1821. The military giant had been exiled there and likely died of stomach cancer.

The doctor gave the penis to a priest, who smuggled it into Corsica, shortly before he was murdered. Next, the penis fell into the hands of a British collector in 1916.

Perrottet claims that the French government turned down an opportunity to buy the penis, and it went on to become a public relic for the next 50 years. In 1927, it was even put on display in New York by an American rare books dealer who had bought the penis in 1924.

Finally, in 1977, a urologist and professor decided to end the notoriety of Napoleon’s dismembered penis by purchasing it for $3,000. Not wanting to draw any more attention to the penis, Lattimer kept it under his bed and refused to show it to anyone who asked to see it.

Since then, rumors have circulated that a subsequent offer was made to purchase the penis for $100,000. If the offer was real, that would be a total return on investment of about 3,200 percent.

When Lattimer died in 2007, the famous penis went to his daughter Evan. No records exist that it has changed owners since then. On May 10, 2011, Time Magazine named Napoleon’s Penis as one of the “10 most famous stolen body parts.”

 

[Wu Wei]

umm...well......that is a bit of historical knowledge I could have done without.

 

[Revoltingest]

Car Break-Ins Skyrocketing In San Fran; Up 700% In Parts Of City...

 

[PoetPhilosopher]

Car Break-Ins Skyrocketing In San Fran; Up 700% In Parts Of City...

Let me guess. It's Nancy Pelosi's fault.

 

[Revoltingest]

Let me guess. It's Nancy Pelosi's fault.

I dunno.
She hasn't been caught yet.

 

[PoetPhilosopher]

I dunno.
She hasn't been caught yet.

True.

So while we are on the subject of crime, misdemeanors and felonies... you forgot to rub it in what you had for breakfast today.

(I had a Jimmy Dean sandwich and decaf coffee.)

 

[Revoltingest]

True.

So while we are on the subject of crime, misdemeanors and felonies... you forgot to rub it in what you had for breakfast today.

(I had a Jimmy Dean sandwich and decaf coffee.)

An alloy of raison bran & corn flakes with dried cherries.
Then a wee bit'o Parmesan cheese.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

umm...well......that is a bit of historical knowledge I could have done without.

You say that, but you won't be saying that when it wins you money on Jeopardy.

 

[Wu Wei]

An alloy of raison bran & corn flakes with dried cherries.
Then a wee bit'o Parmesan cheese.

Breakfast today....well....big bowl of raisin bran...but its lunch time......homemade sticky rice with chinese pork, steamed in a bamboo leaf

 

[ChristineM]

A bit of nature in the raw. I was just putting out some food on the veranda for the stray cats. At the far end, on the balustrade was a bluetit singing. How beautiful, how peaceful. I stood motionless to watch and listen. From out of nowhere a kestral zoomed in and was gone, so was the bluetit and its pretty song.

 

[Revoltingest]

Breakfast today....well....big bowl of raisin bran...but its lunch time......homemade sticky rice with chinese pork, steamed in a bamboo leaf

Someone is a fancy bear today!