[ExI] The Magpie Whisperer

[William Flynn Wallace]

Typical males:  they turned a fashion ornament, probably created by those
fashion designers who love to humiliate men and women, into a contest as to
who had the largest one.  Satires on such probably doomed them.  bill w

On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 2:12 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *From:* extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> *On Behalf
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> But think about it: what is up with that whole “codpiece” business?
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> >…Back then "cod" also meant "bag", and got used for "scrotum" in that
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> Well sure Adrian, that’s the story they told everybody.  But we know what
> they were REALLY doing.
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> Think about it.  Suppose he had an actual literal cod in his drawers.  How
> would he be keeping it in place?  Duct tape?  HAH!  No, they didn’t even
> have ducts in those days.  We know how they were wearing them, and that
> would also explain the bizarre fashion statement.  As unfathomable as
> fashions are, both then and now, this particular “codpiece” business wasn’t
> really about fashion.  They were doing it because it felt good.  And that
> would also explain how they kept the dang thing in place, ja?
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> Of course they couldn’t actually say in polite company what it was all
> about, but we know, do we not?  So the whole cod = bag cover story was
> invented, hoping we naïve people hundreds of years in the future wouldn’t
> know what those fellers were up to.  But we figured it out.  How?  We asked
> the male ballerinos why their costumes look like that.
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> This is all fun and games until we are hit by the stunning realization…
> that we are all direct descendants of the kind of people who would do that
> to a hapless fish and claim it was a fashion thing.
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> spike
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