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# Haha, but what's a Grecian urn?
Went to the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge recently, in a glass cabinet they had some bowls and dishes that apparently had 'erotic' images on them, but all the juicy stuff was turned to face the wall.
I entered the museum toilets, frustrated.
(, Wed 24 Jul 2013, 10:40, archived)
# I think my favourite censorship is something I heard
Mary Beard talk about on Richard Herring's podcast.

This statue is apparently on the cover of school latin books, but cropped so no cock is visible:
3.bp.blogspot.com/-OcXDDj8NLac/UWJhHYKCHFI/AAAAAAAAC6M/MXWFfkXOv_g/s320/caecilius_herm.jpg

It just makes you wonder how many other books are cropped in the same way, eg Justin Lee Collins' Good Times.
(, Wed 24 Jul 2013, 10:47, archived)
# Hehe, what a really odd bust
and perversely reminds me of the cropping on the cover of Iggy Pop's 'Nude and Rude' - still waiting for someone to do that on the image challenge...
(, Wed 24 Jul 2013, 10:56, archived)
#
Caecilius modicum cole
(, Wed 24 Jul 2013, 11:22, archived)
# Oh noes!
But naughty vases are the only places that curators can ever find any decent inspiration. Perhaps they were trying to hide the handling marks.
(, Wed 24 Jul 2013, 10:52, archived)
# The cabinet wasn't attached to the wall
so I was thinking maybe if I slip a large slim mirror into the gap...
(, Wed 24 Jul 2013, 10:57, archived)
# That could work
Moche sex pots and bottles are also quite fun, and were buried with elite members of society. Nice thought: that if you were seen as the leader, you got to be put in the ground with the ancient peruvian equivalent of your favourite jizz mags.
(, Wed 24 Jul 2013, 11:16, archived)
# Ha ha, prudes
prudesUnless it's been moved Peterborough Museum has a Roman colour-coated ware jar with a motif of a chap merrily squirting baby batter from his comedy giant knob while with his other hand he's pointing at his arse leaving no doubt about where he'd like one stuck.

Edit: apparently I misremembered the gender of the pointee but you get the general idea...
(, Wed 24 Jul 2013, 11:04, archived)
# Hahaha, what a tart!
Whenever commentators say modern adolescents are too promiscuous, I shall tell them
"At least modern girls aren't wandering the streets naked with a giant dildo and pointing at their arses!"
(, Wed 24 Jul 2013, 11:23, archived)
# WTF is my work doing on that urn???
(, Wed 24 Jul 2013, 11:41, archived)
# :D
(, Wed 24 Jul 2013, 14:07, archived)
#
about two pounds an hour, in euros?
(, Wed 24 Jul 2013, 12:08, archived)
# A Grecian Urn
is a still unravished bride of quietness. A foster child of silence and slow time.

Obv.
(, Wed 24 Jul 2013, 12:57, archived)