"The furniture has vanished, but some pictures (NSFW) remain."
A Metafilter post, linking to here, where you can see the photographs of some pretty amazing furniture. Be sure to click on the thumbnail images. Don't miss the one with the Devil.
January 24, 2015
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I gotta say, that's pretty f'd up!
I was very disappointed to learn that Catherine didn't die when the horse she was trying to shtoop fell on top of her. That whole story was just an urban legend, like Richard Gere and the gerbil up the butt.
Another deep disappointment to discover.
When I was a surgery resident we had a guy come in with a gunshot wound of the liver. In his right upper quadrant of the abdomen, he had a tattoo very much like the devil picture. The difference was the female figure was squatting over his tongue. I brought the drain from the liver wound out over the tongue. It was kind of artistic if I do say so myself. I wonder how it looked when the scar healed ? Art in surgery.
We had lots of interesting tattoos.
"like Richard Gere and the gerbil up the butt." A surgeon who joined me in practice was a surgery resident at Cedars and said he saw the X-ray before it vanished into somebody's collection.
But was Katherine bored when her young Officer was boring her?
"A surgeon who joined me in practice was a surgery resident at Cedars and said he saw the X-ray before it vanished into somebody's collection."
Key word: said.
I rad somewhere that in her entire life Catherine had something like seventeen lovers. That's not so many. I'm sure on a good month JFK and Bill Clinton knocked off that many. Yet she's the one with the reputation of debauchery.
Oh, OK, likenesses of penises and vaginas. The original posting didn't make that clear.
As long as we're on the general subject:
http://dailycaller.com/2015/01/15/parents-outraged-over-kids-cartoon-featuring-dancing-penis-and-vagina-video/
(Talk about sexual objects!)
She overdid some things.
I have a hard time believing JFK was the sexual dynamo of the myth.
From Caro's "The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson IV."
Campaigning for office:
"They would watch him tear off his clothes when he got back to his room at the end of a long day campaigning and sink into a tub of water as hot as he could bear, and they would watch as he climbed out, and strapped on a heavy corset and, on top of it, wrapped tightly around himself for extra support, a wide elastic bandage . And they would watch as he headed out on the evening’s campaign trail. “The guy was in agony,” one of them came to realize."
On the day of his assassination:
"Getting dressed that morning, Kennedy, after strapping the brace around him tightly, had wrapped over it and around his thighs in a figure-eight pattern an elastic Ace bandage for extra support because it was going to be a long day."
I wonder what modern day feminists would have us think about all this?
The high-end furniture business hasn't been the same ever since the invention of the internet.
BFD. You should see Titus's sectional.
I bet it was those damn Jesuits who had something to do with this!
So, the devil turns out to be an ugly woman contortionist.
I take it she liked her penises circumcised.
"Key word: said."
Oh yes. I didn't see the X-ray.
I like the metafilter commenter's idea of Ikea reproducing the furniture with its silly names, the table could be Fük.
I hope this wasn't the room where she entertained the Orthodox Patriarch of Moscow with tea & cookies when he came calling!
Could Catherine speak Russian, and if so, could she speak it well? At that time, the language of the court of St. Petersburg was French, and her native language was German, that's why I ask about her skill in Russian.
I mean, hey, at the time, there were members of the Russian nobility born & raised in Russia who could barely speak Russian, raised as they were by French nannies & speaking French to family members. There is a character in "War & Peace", a curmudgeonly old dame who always speaks her mind, and one of her claims to fame is that she insists upon speaking Russian at court.
Given the artistic idioms of the 18th century Ann's "Devil" is almost certainly a satyr. There are other satyr playing with vaginas, look here.
Satyrs are minor deities. Half human and half goat, satyrs are related to Pan. They spend their time frolicking with nymphs. Here's one enjoying a pool party with several winsome nymphs You'll notice that the typical satyr has goat-like horns on his head. Those horns coupled with the satyr's legendary sexual appetite is the origin of the slang word horny.
How is the one photograph in color? [Went investigating. The colour photograph is of a contemporary reproduction, made by a Dominique Roitel, based on the original photos.]
YH, If only this were the Society's greatest fault!
AA, JFK was the subject of hagiography when I was growing up and in school. I expect that the JFK as satyr storyline will prove, eventually, to be just as exaggerated. But maybe not. Political power seems, sometimes, to increase or concentrate the venereal power.
If one follows the history of the devil in Western art one may notice that for the most part devils and demons are shown as monsters, each one a unique blend of features -- eagle's talons on the feet, boar's tusks in the mouth, scaly skin, bat's wings, etc. The earliest devil as goat-man I've found is this 17th century engraving by Willem Isaacsz van Swanenburg. Even this one has bat wings, so it's not entirely a satyr.
JFK said I get a migraine headache if I don't get a strange piece of a** daily.
So I get that these things existed. And maybe even credibly linked to the time of Catherine the Great. Perhaps even someone close to the court of the Queen.
Is there solid evidence linking her directly? Other than old stories?
I carry no brief for Russian royals. I just wonder about proof in such cases. Doesn't matter who the target of the story is.
I bet Putin knows where the furniture is.
Quaestor said...
Satyrs are minor deities. Half human and half goat, satyrs are related to Pan. They spend their time frolicking with nymphs.
Good work, if you can get it.
I understand that, coincidentally, Catherine's nickname was also "Putin".
Melanie to Honey Wilkes: "Oh, Honey, no! Don't be unkind. [Scarlett's] just high-spirited and vivacious. I thought her most charming."
-GWTW
As you know, those are not vaginas
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