From the Mental Floss site, this set of phallic images:
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Archive for 2013
Ice cream time
July 28, 2013marigolds
July 28, 2013Bright sunny flowers of summer, yellow and orange, composites, strongly scented, edible, and easy to grow from seed in a wide range of climate zones. Two genera: Tagetes (called simply marigolds in the U.S.) and Calendula (pot marigolds, or very commonly, calendulas).
Two portmanteaus in the mail
July 27, 2013Two portmanteaus in my mail: a hybrid animal (not new on this blog, but offered here because I now have a really adorable photo) and yet another way of referring to the male anus viewed as a sexual organ.
Heaps of fun
July 27, 2013A Dinosaur Comics from a few years ago (passed on by Bert Vaux), on the Paradox of the Heap:
Notice: “at some fuzzy point” and “Language isn’t that precise”.
Annals of phallicity: Carlos Danger at bay
July 27, 2013The cover of the next New Yorker, with “Carlos Danger” by John Cuneo:
From the magazine’s website:
“With a topic like Anthony Weiner, how can you find anything broad or funny that he hasn’t already personally breached?” says John Cuneo, the artist who painted next week’s cover. He continues: “Free association made me think of the Empire State Building, and then King Kong, the iconic image of him straddling it. And then Weiner sexting, his head tilted and looking a certain way — I just stumbled upon the image as I was sketching. But all I could think about while working on this piece was, ‘Will Weiner still be in the race by the time it runs?’”
The penis-wielding Carlos Danger astride one of NYC’s iconic phallic symbols.
Recruiting men
July 27, 2013A feature from Advocate.com last December: “The Golden Age of Denial: Pimping the Military” by Christopher Harrity, on recruitment art of the last century. Two themes (of several) in the feature: bare-chested men thrusting phallic symbols; and orgies of gang bathing.
‘male anus viewed as a sexual organ’
July 26, 2013Yes, there are words — compound nouns — specifically for this meaning, but unless you’re into gay porn, you might not be familiar with man pussy, boy pussy, man cunt, boy cunt, man hole, or boy hole. These are terms strongly associated with gay porn (fiction, scripts of videos, and descriptions of videos) but not much used by gay men in everyday life; they are part of a specialized porn register, akin to the specialized registers in some other domains, for instance, restaurant menus (with vocabulary items like the adjective tasty that rarely occur outside the menu context).
Benedictine and its kin
July 26, 2013No, not Benedictine the liqueur, Benedictine the dip / spread. From NPR’s Weekend Edition Saturday on 7/13/13, “A Summery Spread That’s As Cool As A Cucumber” by Erica Peterson:
Cream cheese, cucumber juice and a touch of onion. That may sound like an unlikely combination, but Benedictine is a Kentucky favorite, and Gwynne Potts, a self-proclaimed aficionado, says it’s delicious.
“The best thing to eat Benedictine on is just white bread,” Potts says. “No special bread; it only takes away from the Benedictine.”
Potts, who grew up in Louisville, Ky., has been enjoying the creamy combo for six decades.
barihunk
July 26, 2013Portmanteau of the week: barihunk (baritone + hunk). And the barihunk of the moment is Andrew Garland, shirtless:
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The name game
July 25, 2013In the wake of the latest Anthony Weiner revelations, Slate (on 7/23) created a generator of sexting pseudonyms:
The Carlos Danger Name Generator: Use our widget to get a name like Anthony Weiner’s alleged sexting pseudonym.
… One of the specific claims in the Dirty’s reports is that Weiner used a Yahoo account with the pseudonym “Carlos Danger” to email photos of his penis — a fact that Weiner has not confirmed or denied.
Want a fantastic online sobriquet like Carlos Danger? You’re in luck. Type your first and last names into the fields below and click “Get My Name” to find your personal pseudonym.
The generator is pretty simple-minded. It would have to be: unlike common schemes for generating porn names (which use personal information about you), this one goes on nothing more than your first and last names. And it uses “Carlos Danger” as a very direct model.