LONDON – In life, Pall Arason sought attention. In death, he is getting it: The 95-year-old Icelander’s pickled penis will be the main attraction in one of his country’s most bizarre museums. Sigurdur Hjartarson, who runs the Phallological Museum in the tiny Icelandic fishing town of Husavik, said Arason’s organ will help round out the unusual institution’s extensive collection of phalluses from whales, seals, bears and other mammals.
Several people had pledged their penises over the years — including an American, a Briton, and a German — but Arason’s was the first to be successfully donated, Hjartarson said. “I have just been waiting for this guy for 15 years,” he told The Associated Press in a brief telephone interview.
Ahem….
Highlights of the museum’s collection include a 170-centimeter (67-inch) sperm whale penis preserved in formaldehyde, lampshades made from bull testicles and what the museum described as an “unusually big” penis bone from a Canadian walrus.
Hjartarson, 69, said his interest in what he calls “phallology” began when, as a youngster in rural Iceland, he was given a whip made from a bull’s penis to help him herd cattle. Later, when he worked at a school near a whaling station, colleagues brought him whale penises as gifts. Photos posted to the museum’s website show small army of ghostly, whitish penises stuffed into jars, tall glass cylinders and large aquariums. There are sculptures, molds and other penis-related craft items. Outside, the museum has a large tree trunk carved into the shape of an erect phallus.
Most items are donations from friends and well-wishers, people listed on the museum’s website as “honorary members.”
In other news, it appears that Iceland has a penis museum.
YOU KNOW, Raygun said it best: “You see one tree, you’ve seen them all.”
Maybe “one” is not enough, but how many churches before stained glass in longer interesting?
How many paintings before art museums are only worth their snack bar?
As for Penis Museums, I’ve already been to the Oscar Meyer’s Plant. One ten pack, and I’ve seen enough, National Hebrew just to be sure.
One would think that in a place called Iceland, shrinkage would be of primary concern.
The vagina specimens are fake and merely jarred peaches.
This just in..
Not to be outdone, Japan opened their own penis museum, a sprawling 25cm petri dish showing off Japan Finest.
No word yet if viewing microscopes are complimentary or not..
-Back to you McCullough..
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Its SouthPark that does the small Japanese penis jokes. Kinda like Hormel’s Sausage Bits.
At university in Edinburgh there was an anatomy museum full of 18-19 century specimens in jars. Among all the two headed embryos and deformed organs there was a fairly impressive human penis. Under the ancient latin label some long lost medical student had added “Scottish (small)”
I would be worried if my “friends” brought me whale dongs. That is all.
In Canada we call our collection of dicks “Parliment”.
Youtube videos of pets. A penis museum in Iceland. I liked it more when dvorak blog had polarizing argumentative blog posts of substance on a daily basis.
*sniff*
Yeah, maybe I am being a bit of whining dick, but hey that is the topic of the news article so I’d like to think I’m keeping it relevant.
Where is Angel Wong with the zinger?
95? Willie Nelson turned 75 last year and said, “I have finally outlived my dick.”
Here is Penis Size by country:
http://targetmap.com/viewer.aspx?reportId=3073
YOU KNOW, those pickle jars some bars have? Think I’ll look a little closer next time.
Just last week a friend came up to me to say he had lost his job at the pickle factory.
“Why” I asked.
“Because I stuck my dick in the pickle slicer” he replied.
“Ouch !!! So what did they do with the pickle slicer?”
“Oh, she got fired too.”
I say we should all chip in and buy a ticket for Alphie. I’m sure that 67″ whale dick will have him delightfully clinching his butt cheeks.
Whaddya know, A picture of Bill Gates and Pedro!
A funnier headline:
Nancy Pelosi: ‘Elections Shouldn’t Matter as Much as They Do’
http://weeklystandard.com/blogs/nancy-pelosi-elections-shouldnt-matter-much-they-do_557307.html
Or is it terrifying instead? Progressive bastards still infest our government and schools and they are plotting daily against us.
#17 – Alfie – this is a novelty thread. Can’t you just grow a sense of humor for a day or two? Come on. Tell us your best penis story.
#12 – Bobbo – your link seems to be dead. Oddly, I get a 404 error in Spanish! (404: archivo o directorio no encontrado.) In any case, I had intended to respond to your #5 comment by mentioning that, statistically, Asians DO have the smallest. IIRC Asians tend to have about 4 to 5 inch erections while the rest of us 5 to 6 inchers. Need I add that the Asians tend to be smaller and some Burmese woman at 4’10″ and 35 kg probably would not welcome a man with a tent pole in his pants. Anything over 7″ is a budding porn star!
Me? I measure my in centimeters. Makes me feel like King Kong.
McCullough: a penis museum – in Iceland! Do you suppose it makes enough money to support itself? The doctor in me wonders at what point the penis is sliced off. Is it a Bobbitt bob or a careful dissection that would pretty much double the length – though it wouldn’t be pretty.
Yup. Alphie got an erection thinking of whale penis.
#18 Faux Ed – Shhhh – when Alfie departs from the oily bible, he surfs porn. He thinks it’s spelled eRection.