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mumon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 07:32 PM
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Russian Museum to Exhibit Rasputin’s Penis
http://www.mosnews.com/news/2004/04/28/rasputin.shtml



The first Russian museum of erotica is opening in St. Petersburg, Russian Nezavisimaya Gazeta daily reports. The museum is founded by Igor Knyazkin, the chief of the prostate research center of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences.

Knyazkin told the newspaper that museums of sex and erotica exist in many European countries and he wanted Russia to be a civilized country with a view on the future and with correct views on erotica.

There is one exhibit in the museum which makes Knyazkin be especially proud of. This is the 30-centimeter preserved penis of Grigory Rasputin. “Having this exhibit, we can stop envying America, where Napoleon Bonaparte’s penis is now kept. … Napoleon’s penis is but a small ”pod“ it cannot stand comparison to our organ of 30 centimeters…” the head of the museum said.
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Coventina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 07:34 PM
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1. Glorious Soviet Penis
Much larger than any capitalist penis!!!

(Yeah, yeah, I know, Rasputin was part of the Romanov scene.....I just couldn't resist).

:evilgrin:
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Soup Bean Donating Member (757 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 07:44 PM
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9. So he was "Moose"
...not "squirrel"
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lanlady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 07:47 PM
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11. hilarious!
Thanks for the laugh--
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DulceDecorum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 08:16 PM
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15. Napoleon's missing bonaparte
Edited on Wed Apr-28-04 08:19 PM by DulceDecorum
In 1916 Vignali's descendants sold his collection of Napoleonic artifacts to a British rare book firm, which in 1924 sold the lot for about $2,000 to a Philadelphia bibliophile, A.S.W. Rosenbach. Among the relics was "the mummified tendon taken from Napoleon's body during the post-mortem." A few years later Rosenbach displayed the putative penis, tastefully couched in blue morocco and velvet, at the Museum of French Art in New York. According to a contemporary news report, "In a glass case saw something looking like a maltreated strip of buckskin shoelace or shriveled eel." The organ has also been described as a shriveled sea horse, a small shriveled finger, and "one inch long and resembling a grape."

The Vignali collection changed hands a few more times--I get all this from Charles Hamilton's Auction Madness (1981)--and eventually was put on the block at Christie's in London. It didn't sell, leading a scandalmongering British tabloid to trumpet, "NOT TONIGHT, JOSEPHINE!"
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/040102.html


There’s another rumor regarding one of Hitler’s testicles; specifically that he was missing one.
This posed a problem for Hitler as his generals would always commend him by saying, “That’s a very ballsy move,” and would then scamper away snickering.
(Some generals would also say, “That Hitler— What a nut!” often. They were never promoted.)
No one knows what happened to Hitler’s lost testicle. Some say he never had it to begin with, others say he lost it in battle. Others say there was an accident with a goat.
http://cg.scs.carleton.ca/~morin/misc/np/

Middle Finger of Galileo's Right Hand
http://www.astr.ua.edu/white/ay101/h_gal_finger.html
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mumon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-29-04 06:30 AM
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23. thanks for the history lesson....
Well, ...
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PfcHammer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 07:50 PM
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13. this must be what the cold war was about n/t
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TrogL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 07:36 PM
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2. 30 cm. = 1 foot
egad

the mind boggles

that hurts just thinking about it
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mr_hat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 07:36 PM
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3. Will it be an interactive exhibit, I wonder?
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the Kelly Gang Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 07:40 PM
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4. I'm speechless on this one !!! ( except something about B.Clinton
will surely follow ):wow:
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Westegg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 07:41 PM
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5. "Rah-rah, Rasputin! Lover of a Russian Queen!" n/t
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methinks2 Donating Member (894 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 07:41 PM
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6. had to find a ruler to look that one up.
That's almost a foot long. No wonder he was so popular. And the other men were so threatened they had to off him.
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Pale_Rider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 07:41 PM
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7. Rasputin is Alive!
http://www.flat222.org/mac/rasputin/

Is it true that Rasputin is really dead? One would believe that even a man as holy and spiritually powerful as Rasputin was, in the end, a mortal man of flesh and blood upon this earth.

But does the story end there? Recently, photographic evidence has been obtained showing that Rasputin still lives! How can this have come about? There is only one possible explanation that can be drawn - Rasputin has been reincarnated, and walks again!
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Minstrel Boy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 07:50 PM
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12. Since I saw Hell Boy I'd have to answer, barring a sequel,
a qualified no.
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Bluzmann57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 07:42 PM
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8. After Clinton is gone
maybe they should exhibit his penis. After all, look at all the notorious events it is responsible for. Sorry, couldn't resist.
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montana_hazeleyes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-29-04 02:59 AM
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22. That's right!
We have the greatest penis of all time. Right here. Right now
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liberalhistorian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 07:46 PM
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10. Guess Rasputin really
was a "prick" after all!:evilgrin: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:
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ikojo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 07:59 PM
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14. Won't Karl Rove miss his penis? nt
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rasputin1952 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 09:03 PM
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16. I just hope you are referring to that Napoleanic "pod"...
NOT the 30 cm manhood that is posessed by the great rasputin!!!!!

And YES! I am alive!!!!!!!!!!!!!:D
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NashVegas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 09:40 PM
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17. Good Lord, No Wonder They Called Him the "Mad Monk"
..
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Pax Argent Donating Member (350 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 11:24 PM
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21. No doubt
If I was packing that kind of artillery and I was stuck in a monastery, I'd be mad too!!
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drscm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 09:45 PM
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18. Sure to draw innumerable GOP legislators and their media
considering their covert fascination with penises.
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despairing optimist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 09:59 PM
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19. Get the videocam ready for Clarence Thomas
Move over, Long Dong Silver.
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 10:49 PM
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20. I can't imagine
walking through a museum and comparing historic pickled penises. :wtf:
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noonwitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-29-04 07:21 AM
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24. 30 cm? That explains a lot about Rapsutin's alleged power over women
And gay men like Yusopov, who killed him and allegedly cut off his penis.
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