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Tue, Feb 15, 2005

Gettin' my Bone On

I think my first awareness of baculums came at that dinner during commencement weekend. It must have been in, what, '95? '96? We went to the Providence Bookstore Cafe, back when it actually included a bookstore. Betsy Scharf, a name from my fraternity's past, was there, and she was very proud of her raccoon baculum earrings. Up to that point, I hadn't realized that most mammals (our own species excepted) had a penis bone.

Now, sometime in the intervening decade, I believe I had a chance to examine a walrus baculum, or oosik, and it's a formadible implement, with with a combatant of reasonable strength could clearly brain his foeman. Somehow, however, bizarrely, I can't remember what the circumstances of my scrutiny were.

The image came to mind, though, when The Salty One described her recent workplace, and impelled me to do the web searches that discovered Boneclones.com. If you follow none of the other links in this piece, do follow this one, dear reader. It's a hell of a site, with a lot of stuff on it. Replica skeletons of neanderthals, >saber-toothed tigers, platypuses, and komodo dragons, for prices reaching up into the low five digits. as well as the formidable reproduction walrus baculum. Well, maybe I can afford a t-shirt.

And finally, in honor of the day, let me close with the Valentine's Day Achewood episode from 2002, which touches on related themes.

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ode to the oosik by redbeard:

One of my colleagues has this pinned above her desk:

Strange things have been done in the Midnight Sun, 
and the story books are full---
But the strangest tale concerns the male,
magnificent walrus bull!

I know it's rude, quite common and crude,
Perhaps it is grossly unkind;
But with first glance at least, this bewhiskered beast,
is as ugly in front as behind.

Look once again, take a second look -- then
you'll see he's not ugly or vile --
There's a hint of a grin, in that blubbery chin --
and the eyes have a shy secret smile.

How can this be, this clandestine glee
that exudes from the walrus like music?
He knows, there inside, beneath blubber and hide
lies a splendid contrivance -- the Oosik!

"Oosik" you say -- and quite well you may,
I'll explain if you keep it between us;
In the simplest truth, though rather uncouth
"Oosik" is, in fact, his penis!

Now the size alone of this walrus bone,
would indeed arouse envious thinking --
It is also a fact, documented and backed,
There is never a softening or shrinking!

This, then, is why the smile is so sly,
the walrus is rightfully proud.
Though the climate is frigid, the walrus is rigid,
Pray, why, is not man so endowed?

Added to this, is a smile you might miss ---
Though the bull is entitled to bow --
The one to out-smile our bull by a mile
is the satisfied walrus cow!

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