Ostracod Piece
‘LORD Nelson, as we all know, has a huge column erected in his honour in the centre of London.
| What was that about little men and big cars? |
Napoleon, by contrast, whose plans to invade England were scuppered once and for all by Nelsons victory at Trafalgar, had a tiny willy.
We know this because it was cut off on his death bed by the abbe who administered the last rites, pickled and put in a jar (which is now owned apparently by an American urologist).
We only mention this to annoy the French and by way of introduction to a picture in this mornings Independent of what appears to be the worlds oldest penis.
And a pretty impressive member it is too, such that one would have to speculate that its owner, an ostracod, was of good British stock.
A fossil of the ostracod, a tiny creature that was a cross between a shrimp and a clam and lived some 425 million years ago, was found at a site in Herefordshire. In Britain.
And, says the Indy, it sports a large penis which has been perfectly preserved in three dimensions.
In fact, such is the size of the ostracods manhood that its Latin name Colymbosathon ecplecticos actually means swimmer with a large penis.
Or, as we now know it, Duncan Goodhew…’
Posted: 5th, December 2003 | In: Broadsheets Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
