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oh, and in case anyone gets excited wondering what i posted. it was pretty stupid. totally not worth it .

sorry warren.

just drunken ramblings. i had good, yet unusual and disturbing weekend is all.

today is new day.

Oh no, I did not want you to delete it, Sweetjane. I thought the humor was worth it. We need the laughs. You got my day off on the right note.

does someone need a vitamin shot?

just a shot would be fine

(jane glad that this is the first time i have really grinned on this board for a while)

trying to be subtle, for YEARS my husband expressed that raw shellfish have an uncanny resemblance to a certain female body part. one he rather enjoys.

and you all were going on & on about eating oysters...and he really likes to eat oysters...and, well, i'm gonna just stop there, cause my personal life is my own, but i was totally cracking myself up.

and, at 3 am things can be either really serious or really funny. it was hysterical to me!

(read this fast before it gets yanked!!!)

LOL
No need to be embarrassed...

If you had clicked on the link I posted you would have read about this very thing.

I'll post the paragraph that discusses it.
This site is from the FDA so I'd say it's fairly reliable from a medical standpoint.

Welcome to the Club, Jane....LOL

"Many ancient peoples believed in the so-called "law of similarity," reasoning that an object resembling genitalia may possess sexual powers. Ginseng, rhinoceros horn, and oysters are three classical examples.

The word ginseng means "man root," and the plant's reputation as an aphrodisiac probably arises from its marked similarity to the human body. Ginseng has been looked on as an invigorating and rejuvenating agent for centuries in China, Tibet, Korea, Indochina, and India. The root may have a mild stimulant action, like coffee. There have been some experiments reporting a sexual response in animals treated with ginseng, but there is no evidence that ginseng has an effect on human sexuality.

The similarity of the shape of the rhinoceros horn to the penis is credited for its worldwide reputation as a libido enhancer. The horn contains significant amounts of calcium and phosphorus. The addition of the food to a deficient diet could improve general physical vigor and possibly lead to an increased sexual interest. But in most Americans' diets, which are usually not lacking calcium or phosphorus, the small quantities usually consumed would not affect physical performance.

Because Aphrodite was said to be born from the sea, many types of seafood have reputations as aphrodisiacs. Oysters are particularly esteemed as sex aids, possibly gaining their reputation at a time when their contribution of zinc to the nutritionally deficient diets of the day could improve overall health and so lead to an increased sex drive."

Again the link: http://www.fda.gov/fdac/features/196_love.html



[This message has been edited by Enigma (edited 08-19-2002).]

ok warren. look what u started. i ran a google search as it is fun & i'm bored, and found this story. like it, enigma


it is from a magazine article on editorship in journalism by a professional photographer:

Well, I recall one day, many years ago, when I was asked to do a studio shoot for our food department. They had a cover story for their section on the gastronomic pleasures of eating raw oysters. The head of the department gave rather explicit instructions on what she wanted to see in the photograph. She wanted a single oyster, on the half shell, nestled in a container of cracked ice and the oyster should be close up and prominent.

I guess that about says it for me. I mean, there isn't much room to be very creative, with those kind of instructions laid before me. So, with a supply of fresh Blue Point oysters (which are produced locally in the waters of Blue Point, Long Island, I might add) and some buckets of crushed ice, I retired to the studio and proceeded to work. I was using a 4 X 5 studio view camera to make the shot and I utilized the tilts and swings of the lens board and film back to control any distortion. I lit the oyster and its bed of cracked ice with a large soft box and then to get some glistening highlights, I used a weak spot light, off to the side. I filled the 4 X 5 frame with the required image and proceeded to expose several sheets of film. After they were processed, I made an 11 X 14 print from the best one (we were only shooting black and white in those days) and took the print out to the editor in charge of the feature section.

She took the print from my hand and turned beet red and gasped.

"Oh, my God!" she cried. "We can't use this."

"Why not," I demanded.

"I had no idea that it would look so much like female genitalia," was her response.

The photo never ran. Some other story made the cover and the oyster story ran in the back of the section, without art.

I dunno. I thought it was a good shot. I guess that she was a better judge of oysters and female genitalia than I. But, I thought it was a good shot. I wish that I had a copy of it to add to my story, here. But, maybe it's just as well. Perhaps it would be considered too risqué by the web police and we might be relegated to the porn side of the web.

LOL Some people get all the fun jobs!

Oysters look like female genitalia? hmm. maybe it's the other way around. On the other hand, everything looks like female genitalia if you are a 15 year old boy. I think we have the makings of a class action suit here, we just have to figure out whether we sue the women or the oysters.

This passes for humor when you haven't had a cigarette for 9 days.

not sure where eating, um, 'oysters' (yeah, um, that's what i was taklking about)transitioned into a class-action lawsuit...