Pliny the Elder

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/Laocoon_Pio-Clementino_Inv1059-1064-1067.jpg

yeah - he loved this

Those toes look too muscular for my tastes.

He's carrying snakes and catamites – of COURSE he'd have some muscles.

tentacle porn.

wrote some great letters

no wait that was the Younger

Told GF the other day that I think Pliny is my preferred name for a boy.

good job pliny

Aristotle claimed that eels emerge spontaneously after the rain, whereas Pliny the Elder suggested that adult eels rub their skin against rocks and the pieces that come off subsequently metamorphose into young eels (Aristotle, 1910; Pliny the Elder, 1855).

xp Go whole hog and name him Plinius Secundus.

I was very close to him so I call him Pliny

plippy

http://www.simplybeer.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/russianriver_pliny2.jpg

Is that the Laocoon?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/58/Yoshihiko_Noda-1.jpg/493px-Yoshihiko_Noda-1.jpg

"I like that naked man too"

Good beers those xxp

xp to MW: yes, the Laocoon. Back in the day it was considered the greatest sculpture ever made, but not so much nowadays.

back then they saw a normal or smallish sized dong as wonderful

Back when it was made or back in 1506, Aimless?

It's funny how much bigger wangs have gotten and how men no longer grow leaves over their junk.

In the sixteenth century it caused quite a gobsmacking, because they'd been making sculptures out of wattle-and-daub and bits of red cloth before that.

now everyone sees the wang as an opportunity for a new limb as opposed to a nose-like littel fella

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/08/26/limelight_listing.DTL

I blame Frodo

the liking for no body hair still seems to dominate though

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"At Carteia an octopus used to come from the open sea into the uncovered tanks of the fish-farms and there forage for salted fish. All sea-creatures are powerfully attracted to the smell of salted fish, and for this reason baskets used in catching fish are smeared with salted fish. In view of the continual theft, the overseers became exceedingly angry. Fences were put up to obstruct the octopus, but it used to climb these by means of a tree. It could be caught only by employing dogs with a keen scent. These surrounded the octopus as it was returning at night and roused the overseers, who were terrified by its strange appearance. Its size was unheard of, and likewise in colour; it was smeared with brine and had a dreadful smell. Who would have expected to find an octopus there, or to recognize it against such a background? They seemed to be locked in a struggle with something out of this world, for it nauseated the dogs with its terrible breath, lashed them with the ends of its tentacles, and then struck them with its stronger arms, which it used in the manner of clubs. After great trouble, it was dispatched with the aid of many tridents."