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Comic Discussion => QUESTIONABLE CONTENT => Topic started by: Captain2 on 18 Feb 2009, 21:56
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Did that poster in the background of todays comic just make it for hilarious for anyone else?
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Haha, yes! So glad I'm not the only one who thought so.
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Yes, and I so want a poster like that!
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Yup. Or a T shirt.
I wonder if the Statue of Liberty's image is in the public domain? Then again, maybe is has to be to be used in the comic.
Anyway -- t-shirt!
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People.
For God's nonexistant sake.
That is NOT the Statue of Liberty
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Yes yes yes, so I understand. Someone has called it Nike Athena, although they are two different but related entities.
I bow to your relative perfection.
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(http://karyatisgreekart.com/yahoo_site_admin/assets/images/Dsc06150.20964242_std.jpg)
it is indeed a statue of athena. It is located in Naples, Italy
not that everyone on earth will keep calling it the statue of liberty, anyway
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Well, maybe the ancient athenians had the copyright from Athena Nike :lol:
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im pretty sure the greeks hold the copyright for greek gods
roman gods are blatant copyright infringment
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Oh look it's a pic of me!
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Dolts.
Athena is in Nashville.
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Athena's got no titties.
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Dora's face reminds me so much of ಠ_ಠ.
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(http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/8950/youaskedforitav4.png)
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Wonder how it would stack up against the Ellicott-Chatham Death Stare (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1108)...
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Athena's got no titties.
athena is the goddess of heroic endevour. And hunting. And many erm...male things. She's sort of a dyke, in fact. She is often represented with no tiitties. None of this really matters, however. I just wanted to use you as an excuse to say titties. Such a friendly word, titties. Doesn't it make you want to jump about and smile and say find some to bounce around in your hands?
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(http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/8950/youaskedforitav4.png)
Win.
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Athena's got no titties.
Athena's job was to kick ass. Go to Aphrodite if you want titties.
athena is the goddess of heroic endevour. And hunting. And many erm...male things. She's sort of a dyke, in fact. She is often represented with no tiitties. None of this really matters, however. I just wanted to use you as an excuse to say titties. Such a friendly word, titties. Doesn't it make you want to jump about and smile and say find some to bounce around in your hands?
Athena was the goddess of wisdom and war. Artemis was the goddess of the hunt. Both were virgin goddesses and never had sex. Artemis actually turned a guy who peeped on her into a deer and had him get torn apart by his own dogs.
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Athena's got no titties.
Athena's job was to kick ass. Go to Aphrodite if you want titties.
athena is the goddess of heroic endevour. And hunting. And many erm...male things. She's sort of a dyke, in fact. She is often represented with no tiitties. None of this really matters, however. I just wanted to use you as an excuse to say titties. Such a friendly word, titties. Doesn't it make you want to jump about and smile and say find some to bounce around in your hands?
Athena was the goddess of wisdom and war. Artemis was the goddess of the hunt. Both were virgin goddesses and never had sex. Artemis actually turned a guy who peeped on her into a deer and had him get torn apart by his own dogs.
oops yer right. But I still like saying titties. So I appreciate your straightening me out. I guess it was the war part that gave athena the flat chest. Wait, was it artemis taht was rpresented with one breast so she could pull a bow?
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(http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/8950/youaskedforitav4.png)
Oh it's every bit as wonderful as I imagined.
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Athena's got no titties.
Athena's job was to kick ass. Go to Aphrodite if you want titties.
athena is the goddess of heroic endevour. And hunting. And many erm...male things. She's sort of a dyke, in fact. She is often represented with no tiitties. None of this really matters, however. I just wanted to use you as an excuse to say titties. Such a friendly word, titties. Doesn't it make you want to jump about and smile and say find some to bounce around in your hands?
Athena was the goddess of wisdom and war. Artemis was the goddess of the hunt. Both were virgin goddesses and never had sex. Artemis actually turned a guy who peeped on her into a deer and had him get torn apart by his own dogs.
oops yer right. But I still like saying titties. So I appreciate your straightening me out. I guess it was the war part that gave athena the flat chest. Wait, was it artemis taht was rpresented with one breast so she could pull a bow?
Titties.
Nevertheless, Artemis and Athena went head to head with Aphrodite to get Paris to choose them as the most beautiful.
Titties.
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Titties.
Nevertheless, Artemis and Athena went head to head with Aphrodite to get Paris to choose them as the most beautiful.
Titties.
Hera, not Artemis.
Wait, was it artemis taht was rpresented with one breast so she could pull a bow?
As far as I know, no. Artemis always has two breasts. The Amazons, daughters of Ares, were the ones depicted as cutting off their right tit so they could pull a bow better.
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they cut off their own titties? How horrible. They should have been ashamed of themselves. A titty is not something to waste. :x
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Artemis had a boatload of titties. She was known, not so colloquially, as many-titted Artemis.
You're right, though, that she wasn't one of the apple-bitches. That was Hera.
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they cut off their own titties? How horrible. They should have been ashamed of themselves. A titty is not something to waste. :x
As an all-female society, they had a surplus of titty. :-P
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you can never have a surplus of titty. If you have too much, you just send em over here. We know what to do with em.
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Athena's got no titties.
Athena's job was to kick ass. Go to Aphrodite if you want titties.
athena is the goddess of heroic endevour. And hunting. And many erm...male things. She's sort of a dyke, in fact. She is often represented with no tiitties. None of this really matters, however. I just wanted to use you as an excuse to say titties. Such a friendly word, titties. Doesn't it make you want to jump about and smile and say find some to bounce around in your hands?
Athena was the goddess of wisdom and war. Artemis was the goddess of the hunt. Both were virgin goddesses and never had sex. Artemis actually turned a guy who peeped on her into a deer and had him get torn apart by his own dogs.
Athena turned a man to stone for spying on her while she bathed naked in a lake.
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naked titties
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naked wet titties.
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Athena turned a man to stone for spying on her while she bathed naked in a lake.
Talk about stone balls...
Yep, fight was between Athena, Hera, and Aphrodite and led to the Trojan war.
Artemis was the twin of Apollo, Athena was born out of Zeus's head after he swallowed her mother, Metis. Hephaestus cleft his head open when he complained of terrible headaches (which was Metic making ARtemis's armor). Seems fair.
I suppose that Edith Hamilton's Mythology book left a small impression.
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you can never have a surplus of titty. If you have too much, you just send em over here. We know what to do with em.
I'm curious; what exactly would you do with a severed tit in a box?
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put a bow on it and give it to a friend?
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It would be sort of a blancmange, kinda, in a very sick way...
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a severed tit in a box?
i could have sex with it maybe?
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I am totally willing now and forever, to give you all the dismembered breasts I am given. Just please don't touch me or tell me what you do to them.
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This thread is frigging creepy.
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I believe this is an appropriate moment to close my eyes, plug my ears, and sing LALALALALALALALALA very, very loudly.
Care to join me?
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Hephaestus cleft his head open when he complained of terrible headaches (which was Metic making ARtemis's armor).
The version I heard was Poseidon cleft Zeus' head, and Hephaestus was born later when Hera got jealous that Zeus had a kid on his own and decided to have a kid by herself. Then she was all "damn, this baby's ugly" and threw him off Olympus.
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I thought Haephestus got thrown off Olympus. Lot of throwing of bodies off of Olympus going on...
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Yes, Hephaetus was thrown out, but he was still an Olympian god, the god of smiths and inventors and crafts. He had a workshop under a volcano, and he made various magical things (Aphrodite's girdle and, I think, Zeus's thunderbolts). He occasionally returned to Olympus.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hephaestus
Wikipedia has a pretty good synopsis. Most of my books are in storage now -- I was big on the myths when I was a teenager.
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I thought Haephestus got thrown off Olympus. Lot of throwing of bodies off of Olympus going on...
Yeah, that's who Hera threw off.
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yah, I got confused for a second there.
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If you hated that, you'll loathe this:
(http://img516.imageshack.us/img516/466/ascii.png)
(Sorry but this thread was getting too serious and/or creepy.)
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We were talking about tit-less women and mutilating and I wasn`t invited? What is this treachery?
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dood. You should start a thread.
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dood. You should start a thread.
Sometime, someday, when I have a more constructive topic than breast mutilation.
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Eh, thread highjackery is a much more challenging line. And you can use grappling hooks!
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Eh, thread highjackery is a much more challenging line. And you can use grappling hooks!
Oooo.
Graaaappling Hooks...
Ooooo....
S
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Now if we could just perfect a real-world wrist launcher for the grappling hooks, we could go Batmanning all over the place, disturbing the peace mysteriously. I know Jamie of the Mythbusters worked on it, but then he didn't put in a release/reverse and smashed himself in the face.
Do you think Batman ever smashed himself in the face while working out the kinks in new gizmos?
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Eh, thread highjackery is a much more challenging line. And you can use grappling hooks!
Just don't use grappling hooks on Athena's titties!!
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She'll never notice. She's one tough bitch. Besides, she has a breastplate.
GRAPPLING HOOKS! PITONS! And other climbing equipment.
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its never a bad hijacking when ancient civilization mythology is involved! :laugh:
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Athena has no tits? Pshh
I'll have you all know, I happen to have a very ample bosom.
:x
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Athena has no tits? Pshh
I'll have you all know, I happen to have a very ample bosom.
:x
this thread is useless without pix :laugh:
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this thread is useless without pix :laugh:
<img src="http://www.museculture.com/ripped-cleavage-02.jpg/>
Does that help, Father? :)
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Did... did you rip your shirt open so that you could take a picture just to make a point?
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Did... did you rip your shirt open so that you could take a picture just to make a point?
Nope.
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Titties.
Nevertheless, Artemis and Athena went head to head with Aphrodite to get Paris to choose them as the most beautiful.
Titties.
Hera, not Artemis.
Wait, was it artemis taht was rpresented with one breast so she could pull a bow?
As far as I know, no. Artemis always has two breasts. The Amazons, daughters of Ares, were the ones depicted as cutting off their right tit so they could pull a bow better.
Not cut. They burned them off, children. Cutting them off makes it sound like this was done at maturity, when I'm guessing it was started at puberty. Otherwise, a girl'd have to wait 'til she was sixteen or so to start practicing with the bow. Not good for warrior-women. I suppose if one was, er (mustn't use the F word), under-endowed enough this wasn't necessary. Cutting from puberty onwards might be, well, macho, but cauterizing would be more efficient. Still, ouch.
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The girls never got in the way of my drawing a bow (although I only pulled a 70lb). It was my eyesight that made it hard.
Of course, some times I wish I had Lee Press On Tits. You know, just so I could have the boobs I needed for the activity/wardrobe.
Those Amazons were TOUGH!
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this thread is useless without pix :laugh:
<img src="http://www.museculture.com/ripped-cleavage-02.jpg/>
Does that help, Father? :)
I can't decide if I should be ashamed of myself or filled with glee. But please don't burn those off so you can pull a bow. It would be a crime against humanity. :cry:
Not cut. They burned them off, children. Cutting them off makes it sound like this was done at maturity, when I'm guessing it was started at puberty. Otherwise, a girl'd have to wait 'til she was sixteen or so to start practicing with the bow. Not good for warrior-women. I suppose if one was, er (mustn't use the F word), under-endowed enough this wasn't necessary. Cutting from puberty onwards might be, well, macho, but cauterizing would be more efficient. Still, ouch.
All cultures have rites of passage. I couldn't imagine a stronger way of accepting a young woman into a woman warrior culture than by cuttign one breast off. Think of the symbolism. I'm sure the folks who thought up the mythology did, eh?
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I can't decide if I should be ashamed of myself or filled with glee. But please don't burn those off so you can pull a bow. It would be a crime against humanity. :cry:
No fear there. I stopped cutting when I was 16.
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Do you think Batman ever smashed himself in the face while working out the kinks in new gizmos?
It certainly would explain the protective mask.
I can't decide if I should be ashamed of myself or filled with glee. But please don't burn those off so you can pull a bow. It would be a crime against humanity.
I can only add a quote of my own:
"There's a shortage of perfect breasts in this world. T'would be a pity to damage yours."
I stopped cutting when I was 16.
Yeah, me too. Now I swallow my food whole, just like all the other reptiles.
S
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Ah, Mr. S, I admire a good Princess Bride quote.
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Wesley is a poser. I'm the real Dread Pirate Roberts.
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I thought his name was Cummerbund?
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I thought his name was Cummerbund?
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No that was the one after me. It's something of a franchise, you see.
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moar tits :-D
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All cultures have rites of passage. I couldn't imagine a stronger way of accepting a young woman into a woman warrior culture than by cuttign one breast off. Think of the symbolism. I'm sure the folks who thought up the mythology did, eh?
I've always understood it to be a practical sort of thing rather than symbolic. And not every culture is as fixated on breasts as ours is.
Anyway, the Amazons may not be myths. At least not entirely. I like the theory that they were woman who had to 'defend the store,' so to speak, while the men were away at war, and the Greek who came upon them got the wrong idea. If he was an Athenian, I can see why.
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All cultures have rites of passage. I couldn't imagine a stronger way of accepting a young woman into a woman warrior culture than by cuttign one breast off. Think of the symbolism. I'm sure the folks who thought up the mythology did, eh?
I've always understood it to be a practical sort of thing rather than symbolic. And not every culture is as fixated on breasts as ours is.
Anyway, the Amazons may not be myths. At least not entirely. I like the theory that they were woman who had to 'defend the store,' so to speak, while the men were away at war, and the Greek who came upon them got the wrong idea. If he was an Athenian, I can see why.
rites of passage can be as simple and as complex as you can think of circumstances to arrange them around. The Amazonian women are supposed to have been somewhat based on a real events. There is evidence that of a cult of the woman warrior as well. A rite of passage can happen at any stage of life, signify anything. Functionally it marks the passage of someone into a society or part of society where they are expected to change their behavior in favor of the new group. So you could see a young girl having this rite of passage to mark the end of childhood, or simply to mark to her community that she will become a warrior. Keep in mind that the bows commonly used throughout human culture are not the massive English longbows of yew. A boy began to train at a bow like that as a small child--it took a lifetime to become a master. Most bows aren't that damned serious. A month or so and you can be expected to become and average shooter. Most bows are in fact skinny little dinky looking things and they're used with multiple pronged arrows for killing small game. Not to hard to scale up from that to a leve tah tcan kill a person without it being a big switch.
"They have no right breasts...for while they are yet babies their mothers make red-hot a bronze instrument constructed for this very purpose and apply it to the right breast and cauterize it, so that its growth is arrested, and all its strength and bulk are diverted to the right shoulder and right arm." Hippocrates
Now, there are a number of sources about them, and few agree on fine details. But in general there seems to have been a culture where rwomen were set on a level playing field with men (at least a level playing field) and they seem to have been expected to hunt and fight as well as thier men. In fact, if yo look at today's culture, it's quite similar to what the Amazons were described to be like.
Now, if you squint a bit, and take away what was probably made up (Hippocrates wasn't there and didn't have a direct source--and ancient authors were notorious for making up what they didn't know) or and base it on what we know about cultures, it is entirely possible that this was actually a rite of passage performed in girls to signify that they were expected to join the ranks or begin to study to join the ranks, of adult women in their culture.
I recently had a sinus surgery. They drive a needle about the size of an iv needle into your sinus and heat it up to 300 degrees. This cauterizes the sinus and shrivels it up, allowing you to breath through your nose again (I've had my nose broken a lot and although it's been well set it left me with issues breathing) so the cauterized breast make sense to me. I'm not sure doing it anytime before puberty wouldn't be effective. So maybe as soon as the kid starts to bud they burned her with a ceremony. And of course, all cultures see the breast as a sign of motherhood, if not sexuality. So cutting one off would indicate a strong notion of what women are supposed to do with their lives, eh?
All of this is suppositional of course. And only barely has anything to do with real live titties. But it's an interesting idea imo.