Well-Endowed Apollo Statue to Be Re-Erected in France

[somone]

http://www.aolnews.com/2011/04/12/well-endowed-apollo-statue-to-be-re-erected-in-france/

Well-Endowed Apollo Statue to Be Re-Erected in France

NICE, France -- A statue of a naked Apollo, banned here for 22 years because it was thought to be too well-endowed, is coming back in June to mark the first day of summer.

The giant marble statue was first erected in 1956 high atop the Greco-Roman Sun Fountain in Nice's grand Place Massena in the city center. The Apollo statue has been controversial almost from the start, and it is returning only after a protracted political debate. The statue is 21 feet high and weighs 7 tons, so its sexual equipment is not necessarily out of proportion. It's just that because the statue is four times the size of a typical man, it appears to have an "impressive package" that led it to be sidelined since 1979, according to the Best of Nice Blog.

A debate last week between the mayor and some opponents of the Apollo statue over what the Nicois call its generous "attributs" was by turns "hilarious" and "electrically charged," French newspaper Nice-Matin reported. A member of the local Green Party said she remembered groups of students coming to see the statue and laughing themselves sick over Apollo's "zizie."

But wait: Aren't Americans the ones who are supposedly puritanical and the French known for their lack of inhibition and matter-of-fact attitudes about sex? "Very true, I know," Emmanuelle Gantie, a spokeswoman for Nice Mayor Christian Estrosi, told AOL News today. "I find it very funny myself. But this statue has a million stories. Back when it first went up, there were some older ladies living nearby who actually complained his attributes were too small."...

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. "Re-Erected"

This is from the Onion, right?

[OswegoAtheist]

9. Nah, just headline writers looking for a laugh.

the local fish-wrapper is notorious for this. Just a few days ago, we got "Details Surface as Grave Robber Case is Unearthed"

Oswego "And newspapers wonder why they're dying a slow death" Atheist

[KittyWampus]

2. with any luck we can get this on the front page!

[onehandle]

3. Hilarious that the statue's junk is blurred out in the AOL News article.

It's art, people.

[Teaser]

6. penis is never art.

ugly chicken looking thing. Better off without them, I say.

[seabeyond]

12. geez... give me a male body any day. think it is like... way more beautiful

than a womans.

love the naked man....

women, meh

[Poll_Blind]

13. Ugly chicken lookin thing?! My penis is no cock! MY PENIS IS JUDE LAW!

When viewed from the appropriate angle, of course.

PB

[WatsonT]

14. Chicken?

That's a new one.

I think the chickens in your area may be . . . a little off.

[formercia]

16. Never heard of choking the Chicken?

That one looks more like a well-endowed Chick.

[somone]

8. Uncensored version:

http://www.hln.be/hln/nl/959/Bizar/article/detail/1250247/2011/04/13/Welgeschapen-Apollo-keert-terug-naar-het-mondaine-Nice.dhtml

[originalpckelly]

21. OK, if they think that's well hanged...

I'd like to see small.

:rofl:

[Lorien]

30. +1.

If that's not "petite" well then I worry or those who found it offensive!

[SidDithers]

32. He's a grower, not a shower...

:hi:

Sid

[edbermac]

4. Wow, the John Holmes of his day.

:7

[Teaser]

5. He's not all that

.

[peace frog]

10. To be fair, it's flaccid in the statue

It may be quite impressive when aroused. Just saying.

[WatsonT]

15. Also it was a chilly day

and he had just got out of the pool

[meow mix]

18. also taking Oxycontin

just sayin..

[bvar22]

23. "Shrinkage?"

"Do girls know about shrinkage?"

[seabeyond]

28. shrnkage. jerry tell her about the shrinkage

favorite seinfeld...

well, maybe the the most favorite. but whenever talking about shrinkage, i think of that scene

[themadstork]

22. And I bet he gets hard as a rock.

[lunatica]

7. I don't see it from this distance

[DCKit]

11. There's growers, and there's show er's.

I thought I was a grower until I saw that pic. "Over-Endowed"? Shit, that's just a cute little pee-pee.

My self-esteem has just gone up 600%.

[Angry Dragon]

17. Perhaps compared to the average Frenchman

que sa tête décolle, que sa tête décapite

[walldude]

19. Quick call John Ashcroft...

I'm sure he's got some extra "smut removing draperies"....

[provis99]

20. the French ARE puritanical compared to us.

heck, we celebrate our first president with a monument to his gigantic schwang.


take that, you tiny Frenchies!

[CatWoman]

24. I was watching a show the other night

It focused on the lost villages of Herculaneum and Pompeii, which were obliterated by Versuvius.

A lot of the frescoes and artwork were hidden away for decades, because of their graphic content.

As Onehandle so aptly observed, "it's art, people".....

[Odin2005]

26. LOL, actually, IIRC, those brothel images were pornography.

[Odin2005]

25. LOL!

[Manifestor_of_Light]

27. Size is not everything, gentlemen.

Hilarious.

There's this thing called the bell curve that Freddie Gauss discovered.

Remember Goldilocks?

Too big and too little?

[samsingh]

31. size helps the motion

[belpejic]

29. Haha

At first I thought this was just going to be another post bashing the Boehner. But it's better...

[csziggy]

33. If I were going to complain about anything it'd be his bad haircut

And that stupid crown. What's up with those?