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Paean to men who post about how much they like clitorides. And vaginas. Yeah.

ONLY NICE THINGS

14:51 / 19.04.02

O Apollo.
You who are the healer.
Come to us,
We who know so little of the clitoris.
We who merely sustain it for the amusement of others.
We who are but women.
Come to us,
Delian Apollo, worker from afar.
Validate our nervous maintenance.
And touch our clits.
With your claw.

We're The Great Old Ones Now

17:46 / 19.04.02

Tres drole.

Ierne

18:15 / 19.04.02

So clitorides is the plural for clitoris. I did not know that.

Why did you choose to dedicate your paean to Apollo instead of Pan or Dionysos? Or indeed Aphrodite? (just curious.)

ONLY NICE THINGS

18:19 / 19.04.02

Oh, because a paian is technically a hymn to Apollo. Paia was one of his cult titles.

And because, realistically, we were going to need a male god to cover the experience of a thread on clitorides (or clitorises, I guess would be the Anglicised version) being filled up with men saying how much they liked clitorises and telling the nice ladies what they are.

Not Here Still

18:35 / 19.04.02

That thread looks 50/50 male/female to me at the moment, Haus...

ONLY NICE THINGS

19:49 / 19.04.02

10 posts from male-idenitified suits, 7 posts from female-identified suits, 3 indeterminate, I think, NMA. But that's not purely where the joke lies. I think it's one of those ones that you either get or don't get.

Ganesh

23:00 / 19.04.02

Could you put your Paia-ness in my ear?

Cat Chant

08:19 / 20.04.02

vaginae, surely, Lord Peter?

or are you using the accusative? Cos I think you're on dodgy ground there.

(Ganesh, I love you.)

ONLY NICE THINGS

10:21 / 20.04.02

I fear you are mistaking me for my insipid cousin...

Well, "how much they like vaginas" would be the sense, so "quantum vaginas ament (subjunctive in same tense for indirect questions occuring in the present?), although in this case the long final syllable would be a bit disconcerting...I think the lesson is Ogden Nash's - "the plural's what one damn well pleases".

Sax

10:26 / 20.04.02

Shurely "what more than one damn well pleases"?

priya narma

16:10 / 22.04.02

Thread rot surely...BUT...

Thanks Haus for helping me out with this sunday's NYT crossword puzzle. One of the clues: Song to Apollo

=)

HCE

21:19 / 07.04.05

What on earth was this all about. THere's some very weird shit down in the bottom of the box.

Papess

21:29 / 07.04.05

Might have something to do with this.

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