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Jilly_in_VA

(9,992 posts)
Thu Jul 28, 2022, 10:24 AM Jul 2022

This Grandma's Dying Wish Was a Giant Dick on Her Grave

MEXICO CITY — Before her death, 99-year-old Catarina Orduña Pérez had one final wish: a giant statue of a dick on top of her grave.

Her family unveiled the completed monument — a five-and-a-half foot tall cock and balls weighing nearly 600 pounds — mounted on her tomb at a cemetery in Mexico this past weekend as a “recognition of her love and joy for life.”

“She wanted to break the paradigm of everything Mexican, where things are sometimes hidden because of not having an open mind,” her grandson Álvaro Mota Limón told VICE World News in an interview. “She was always very avant-garde, very forward thinking about things.”

Doña Cata, as she was lovingly known throughout the small town of Misantla in the eastern state of Veracruz, had a particular affinity for penises, and what she believed they represented.

“She always said, in the Mexican sense, that we were vergas,” said Mota Limón.

There are few words in Mexican slang as dynamic as “verga,” which is perhaps best translated in English as “cock” due to its general use as a profanity. Depending on how its phrased, “verga” can be a brutal insult, telling someone to go fuck themselves (vete a la verga) or that they’re not worth shit (vales verga). Or it can be a compliment, a badge of honor, that if something is “verga,” it is cool or badass.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxnnqw/mexico-dick-tombstone

That's the kind of badass old lady I want to be!

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This Grandma's Dying Wish Was a Giant Dick on Her Grave (Original Post) Jilly_in_VA Jul 2022 OP
Photos and video at link....and it's pink. sinkingfeeling Jul 2022 #1
That reminds me of an episode in Broad City geardaddy Jul 2022 #7
I never had a grandmother. badhair77 Jul 2022 #2
goals. mopinko Jul 2022 #3
gross DURHAM D Jul 2022 #4
Same Rebl2 Jul 2022 #11
abuela muerta con grande verga Botany Jul 2022 #5
I only have one thing to say about this ... aggiesal Jul 2022 #18
"They had particular difficulty with the testicles." CaptainTruth Jul 2022 #6
ROFL!!! calimary Jul 2022 #21
K & R...just because...nt Wounded Bear Jul 2022 #8
I like her! ret5hd Jul 2022 #9
The story is hilarious. Dona Cata was a great woman! japple Jul 2022 #10
A grave. A giant Dick. It didn't sound that weird the first time around. Beastly Boy Jul 2022 #12
Photo speak easy Jul 2022 #13
Apparently "Me Too" movement not catching on in Mexico. Sneederbunk Jul 2022 #14
Talk about penis envy. grantcart Jul 2022 #15
Did you read the article? CloudWatcher Jul 2022 #16
Just wait The Mouth Jul 2022 #17
Oh my goodness, that's hilarious! I'm not easily offended and enjoy tasteless humor. Ziggysmom Jul 2022 #22
I like DUers who are mad about this IronLionZion Jul 2022 #19
IKR? geardaddy Jul 2022 #20

CloudWatcher

(1,850 posts)
16. Did you read the article?
Thu Jul 28, 2022, 01:02 PM
Jul 2022

This was one empowered woman.

There are few words in Mexican slang as dynamic as “verga,” which is perhaps best translated in English as “cock” due to its general use as a profanity. Depending on how it’s phrased, “verga” can be a brutal insult, telling someone to go fuck themselves (vete a la verga) or that they’re not worth shit (vales verga). Or it can be a compliment, a badge of honor, that if something is “verga,” it is cool or badass.

Doña Cata often used it with that sort of colloquial pride when referring to the members of her family as vergas, according to her grandson; that they were people of moral fortitude, with “integrity, courage, passion, and at the same time, love and joy,” said Mota Limón
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