A Stiff-Trunked Elephant...

In the inappropriate children's pop-up book category...we have a winner!

I guess this means that I will be paying a little bit more attention the next time that I buy a pop-up book for Will. The question though "how did the editorial and publishing process not pick up on this image?"

By the way, why is the elephant pink? I cannot ever recall seeing a pink elephant. The fact that it is pink...nah!

These were the words that were with The Huffington Post article: Children's Book Fail, Fail, Inappropriate Kids Book, Inappropriate Pop Up Book, Phallic Pop Up Book, Poll, Pop Up Book Fail, WTF, WTF Pop Up Book, Comedy News. I wonder whether anyone will end up here searching those terms?

Ho hum...

Family Feud...

I used to watch Family Feud as a kid. The show is no longer on Australian TV. However, it remains a staple, apparently, on US TV.

This though is a classic moment. I do not remember questions being asked on the Australian version that would lend themselves to the potential of such 'risque' answers. Yet, this was a question straight out of the unscripted funniest moments play book: "we have surveyed a 100 men and asked them, 'name a part of your body that is bigger now then when you were 16?'".

It is not rocket science to work out what the answer is going to be, but it is really funny to watch.

Enjoy!



Penis moments...

Naked Celebrities and the Internet...

Having just signed up for Twitter, I figured that I needed to get a little bit informed of the "dos" and "don'ts" of the Twitterverse. And, perhaps, the internet more generally. My travels today in internet-ville have led me to many places already, but in pursuit of celebrity gossip I can across this site called "Celebrity fix" and a current slide show they are running on naked celebrities. Much of it full-frontal but with all the naughty bits hidden under a "too rude" star.

So, some of the celebrities making themselves available in their full birthday suit glory to their grateful fans include Jamie Foxx, Peaches Geldof, Vanessa Hudgens, Rihanna, Jessica Origliasso, Hayley Williams, Ke$ha (which includes what seems to be male ejaculatory fluid on her chest - too much information, right?), Geri Halliwell, Pete Wendtz, the former Mrs. Paul McCartney (Heather Mills), Kate Pierson, and Cassie. Oh, and Lara Bingle.

I am sure that if one was to look hard enough that you would find the uncensored images out there in cyberspace. Happy hunting.

Is there a moral to this story? I wonder, all of these individuals continue to maintain their celebrity and would appear to have emerged pretty much unscathed from the experience of having their naughty bits paraded for all to see on the internet.

This whole phenomenon of sexting is an interesting one. It is also one that I am finding out is an issue in Australian schools today. That said, I am finding that cyber-bullying is a really really big problem in schools.

Men as Sexual Objects...

Nah, whoever would have thought that there would be a little balance placed back into the ledger of men and women behaving badly. A young woman, and recent graduate of Duke University, has placed a list of her sexual conquests online. Her exploits include 13 young men of some [former] repute, who I am quite sure were not so willing in the take my photo and critique my sexual prowess online participants stakes. However, this might be a lesson in taking a moment or two to think about where your next hook-up might end up.

The list, which is eloquently described as a thesis, "An education beyond the classroom: excelling in the realm of horizontal academics", to satisfy the completion for the award of a degree in horizontal academics, has gone viral. You can see the list over at Jezebel. I went to college just up the road at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, so some of the bars and other places of interest noted in this thesis are places that were around back in 1992 when I was there (yes, punters and friends, I am that old).

The beauty of this list is that it shows pretty clearly that, there are at least, some women out there who critique men on their attractiveness, penis size, and abilities with the other appendages they possess (is the tongue an appendage?). It was particularly nice to see that an Australian accent rated highly on the suitability stakes. This means that there are genuine hopes for all Aussie fellas out there roaming the college campuses of America in search of a hook-up.

On a serious note. There is nothing funny about this list. There is nothing worthwhile in even thinking about putting it together in the first place, let alone putting it together and then seeing it published online. It says a lot more about the woman who did it than the men who fell victim to her "research". Interestingly, the vast number of research subjects targeted were members of the Duke Lacrosse team.

I guess the question that needs to be posed now is, "Is what this young woman did wrong?"

Some Trivia -- Fun Only!

Did you know any of the following?

1. The human brain is about 85% water;

2. The average human body makes enough carbon for about 900 pencils;

3. No piece of paper can be folded in half more than seven times (I have posted this one before! But, I post it again because I am sure someone will try and prove that it can be done);

4. 23% of all photocopier faults are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their bums;

5. The average human body contains enough potassium to fire a toy canon;

6. A starfish does not have a brain; and,

7. Swans are the only birds with penises.

I hope this trivia comes in handy some day.

Show Me The Lolly!

On first sight this would seem to be the kind of confectionery that you might find in a sex shop. It could have been just a simple case of trying too hard and getting it wrong on pretty much all counts. I am not sure why one would want to eat lighthouses or what genius thought that making a lolly that is supposed to resemble a lighthouse would be a big seller.

Yet, the unintended outcome here is that perhaps the lolly might just become a big seller after all because it not only resembles a lighthouse, but for those of us with a little bit more of a creative imagination can see a completely different shape on display.

Now, who would have thought for $1.99 you could get yourself 50 or so multi-coloured penises?