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ElsewheresDaughter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-14-04 01:50 PM
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FCC panties in a wad over this Olympic ceremony show.....pic


The Federal Communications Commission (news - web sites) has asked for a tape of NBC's broadcast of the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics (news - web sites) after it received at least one indecency complaint. The Aug. 13 tape-delayed broadcast, featuring the history of Athens and Greece, also included male performers representing ancient Greek Kouroi, life-size stone figures of naked young men dating to the sixth century B.C. It wasn't clear whether the images were broadcast. (Wolfgang Rattay/Reuters)
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TrogL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-14-04 01:50 PM
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1. I saw the show - they weren't
I would have noticed :evilgrin:
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Guarionex Donating Member (371 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-14-04 01:51 PM
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2. umm...
how come their dicks are EXACTLY the same size?

Is that fake dicks?
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ElsewheresDaughter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-14-04 02:04 PM
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9. yes they are costumes of ancient Grecian stone statues
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qanda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-14-04 01:51 PM
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3. Oh, good grief!!!!!
Someone needs to get a grip.
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Burma Jones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-14-04 01:59 PM
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6. Ha Ha....Get a Grip.....Very Funny..................n/t
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Burma Jones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-14-04 01:55 PM
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4. They were shown on the HDTV broadcast
As were the lovers and the other steamy stuff.....

The Wackos want to make people that don't mind this kind of stuff pay extra, if not eliminate it altogether.
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RubyDuby in GA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-14-04 01:58 PM
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5. For the love of pete
Who are these stupid ass people that complain???? I want names and addresses. I volunteer to personally go to these people's homes and slap some sense into them.

This is ridiculous! Can we complain to the FCC about the stupid complaints?
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alvis Donating Member (665 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-14-04 01:59 PM
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7. Careful now!
Edited on Tue Dec-14-04 02:00 PM by alvis
Down with this sort of thing!
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Bridget Burke Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-14-04 09:26 PM
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28. Let's hope this "protest" works as well as Father Ted's....
I tuned in late to the Olympic opening ceremony & didn't get a good look.

Now I have! Very good; I've always loved the classics.
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BiggJawn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-14-04 02:02 PM
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8. Mikey Bowell sure wants that Freedom Medal, doesn't he?
Edited on Tue Dec-14-04 02:04 PM by BiggJawn
Why not? they gave it to a LOSER like Bremer...

The BFEE wants to harrass the networks until they're so shilly-shally that the ONLY thing they feel safe airing is the NBA and the Evil Emperor and Jerry Foul-Well.
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sam sarrha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-14-04 02:13 PM
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10. what freaked them them out was all those potentially gay agendas..
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hlthe2b Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-14-04 02:27 PM
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11. Yet another gift to world opinion....
Yes, world, we really are idiots! (or at least made to look that way by the Bush Administration)
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imax2268 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-14-04 02:32 PM
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12. oh my god...
that is rediculous...I bet these people who complain blush when they see their own bodies in the mirror...

I'm telling you...nothing is safe with these fundie wackos running around...
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democracy eh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-14-04 02:35 PM
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13. be afraid of the penis!
ahhh life imitates art, the episode of the simpsons with the David debate, heh heh
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annabanana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-14-04 02:38 PM
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14. you must admit, though..
that IS a damn disturbing pic
(I think it's the baldness)
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marc_the_dem Donating Member (222 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-14-04 02:40 PM
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15. the secret is out
guys have dicks...
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leftynyc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-14-04 03:00 PM
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16. What is wrong with these people
When was the human body declared obscene??!! Haven't any of these people been to a museum. I'm getting disgusted by their twisted version of morality.
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rman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-14-04 03:03 PM
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17. "at least one complaint"
so the vast majority of people have no problem with it.
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Spacemom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-14-04 03:14 PM
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18. Are we really surprised?
Remember Ashcroft and his fear of an uncovered breast on a statue?

I guess you can be a dick, as long as you don't have to look at one. :P
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newyawker99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-14-04 08:30 PM
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21. Hi Spacemom!!
Welcome to DU!! :toast:
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Endangered Specie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-14-04 03:15 PM
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19. Penis envy.
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Nordic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-14-04 03:32 PM
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20. hm, do all penises look exactly alike?
what an odd costume.
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Guarionex Donating Member (371 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-14-04 08:33 PM
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22. yeah...
that's weird...exact size penises?

and they are quite small.
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Bridget Burke Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-14-04 09:35 PM
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29. They aren't real penises!
In the art of Classical Greece ('tho these guys look a bit Archaic), the smaller penis was considered more tasteful.

When it comes to penises many cultures have considered bigger to be better. But in classical Greece delicate and small penises were the best. Big sex organs were thought to be ‘coarse and ugly’. During this time young athletes worked out in the nude. As protection for his private parts a man pulled his foreskin over the head of his penis, tied it with a ribbon and then fastened the ribbon ends to the base of the shaft. This precursor to the modern jock strap was known as a dog knot.

www.tantra-sex.com/ummsummer01.html

Of course, things changed in the Hellenistic & Roman eras. And the popular arts were not as polite as the fine arts.

http://www.art-and-archaeology.com/roman/pom5.html
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Viva_La_Revolution Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-14-04 09:57 PM
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32. oooh... I bet Repugs don't like you much, do they? :titter: n/t
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-14-04 08:40 PM
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23. What the hell is the point of covering up penises
with underpants with built in penises?
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muriel_volestrangler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-14-04 09:01 PM
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26. Well, at the time I thought
"they've given them fake penises so that the Americans won't be able to object". But now it turns out that wasn't good enough anyway.
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donheld Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-14-04 08:45 PM
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24. The Federal Communications Commission
Needs to chill out
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frogfromthenorth2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-14-04 08:46 PM
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25. I knew it !!! I knew it!!! I knew it!!!! Once I saw these images on TV
I quickly went to see on NBC to see if they were showing it and to my surprise they did but the editing was different than the one I saw from Canada.... But now I am not surprised to see that people complained.... People, do you realize how DOOMED your country is because it FULL of morons like this?
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Logansquare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-14-04 09:43 PM
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30. Yes, we do realize it. Will you adopt me?
I'm very cute for a 46 year old.
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frogfromthenorth2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-14-04 11:26 PM
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34. Hummm, intriging proposition... but.... I'll pass
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CornField Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-14-04 09:12 PM
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27. Sorry, can't have dildos on parade in the US of A
Idiots.
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maveric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-14-04 09:46 PM
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31. I'm surprised Ashcroft wasnt there dressing them in mumu's
These assholes have no sense of culture at all.
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against all enemies Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-14-04 10:01 PM
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33. Time to close down the museums. I saw a breast in a painting.
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Runcible Spoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-14-04 11:32 PM
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35. heh heh heh Allll Right
giggity giggity GIGGITY.
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