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If, whilst on holiday............. ........

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j04 Wed 04-Jul-12 14:52:47

you bought an old statue of a lady clutching her robe, unsuccessfully, round her bosom, what would you actually do with it when you got home? confused I paid eighteen quid for it. (I did knock seller down from twenty, so that's alright. hmm)

And, a tabletop chiminea? At 32 cms high it's too big to put on the table, and you couldn't have a little fire in it in the dining room - could you?

And then there's the garden gnome holding a notice in front of his cross looking self, saying,"GO AWAY". Why did I buy that? confused

What happens to brains on holiday?

jeni Wed 04-Jul-12 21:33:05

Don't show it to oh. Might negate any effect of suspenders etc (tends to make the men feel a little under endowed you know)

Jacey Wed 04-Jul-12 21:33:02

But we haven't ...yet...seen an exciting male figure jeni wink

jeni Wed 04-Jul-12 21:30:56

Did you find the bipriate anagram?

Anagram Wed 04-Jul-12 21:29:41

Is it the one of him weighing it?
Doesn't look very comfortable to me!
And who's Sooty? grin

Anagram Wed 04-Jul-12 21:24:46

Ours never seems to deliver on Saturdays! I think they just save them up for Monday round here...

jeni Wed 04-Jul-12 21:23:59

Actually I'm only trying to strike a blow for feminism.
I'm fed up of simpering nymphs, spouting water like a lactating woman.
Half naked females clutching diaphanous drapery .
Hygenea (daughter of aescalaepius) pouring water from a Grecian urn. (we'll soon have that oldie 'what's a Grecian urn? About one drachma a day again)

Why can't I have an excited exciting male figure instead?

jeni Wed 04-Jul-12 21:10:38

He may be! I only know he can't tell the difference between 1 1a and 1b. Also, he doesn't seem to deliver on Monday's?

johanna Wed 04-Jul-12 21:04:41

jeni ,
shame your postman is not gay. grin grin

jeni Wed 04-Jul-12 21:03:01

If you google Priapus Pompeii images. There are copies of the fresco I have in mind. Sooty, don't know how to link to it.

(I wonder what GNHQ mane of this thread?grin

Anagram Wed 04-Jul-12 21:01:33

Not if she Googles it, she can't - no such thing, according to them!

jeni Wed 04-Jul-12 20:57:13

Sorry, but bipriate Priapus is well known every where. Except on GN!
Jing can find the fresci I'm sure!

Anagram Wed 04-Jul-12 20:51:15

Oh, now that's going too far, jeni!
grin Or should I say 'those are'?

jeni Wed 04-Jul-12 20:44:22

They now think that the house of the Vetii may have been a high class brothel (I based my fictional one when on a cruise on this house)
The lower class one has much more interesting fresco, depicting a variety of sexual variations.
Including a bipriate Priapus.

jeni Wed 04-Jul-12 20:39:31

Any way that fresco is only about 18x12 inch !
It is beautifully painted though!

jeni Wed 04-Jul-12 20:37:46

As he can't even find my house, but takes the post next door?

Anagram Wed 04-Jul-12 20:35:48

He could hardly fail to notice a giant priapus looming at him though - he wouldn't need to be literate!

jeni Wed 04-Jul-12 20:30:53

My postman wouldn't notice. I don't think he's even literate.

Anagram Wed 04-Jul-12 20:27:04

Not to mention the Postman...!

Jacey Wed 04-Jul-12 20:25:57

An the postman!! grin

jeni Wed 04-Jul-12 20:24:07

It was outside the door of the Vetii. I'd love to have it outside mine, but I think it might upset the neighbours!

jeni Wed 04-Jul-12 20:22:39

I'm trying to get you lot into the present century! So far we ve only got as far as about 400AD!

Jacey Wed 04-Jul-12 20:22:24

Which door jeni? The front one???grin

jeni Wed 04-Jul-12 20:18:07

That's the picture. It used to be kept covered and shown only to men. The gentler sex might have been shocked!
The statue I want is a copy of the one in the cubicle, I already have a copy of the fresco outside the door. DD bought it for me!

j04 Wed 04-Jul-12 20:15:53

You don't 'alf start some stuff on here jens. hmm

j04 Wed 04-Jul-12 20:15:14

You can't have one of those by your pond.

Unless.............. perhaps attach a fishing line?

Nah!