If you happen to be a blogger, has there ever been anything that you meant to blog about, but it totally slipped your mind? This is just such an item for me.
Yes, multiple people e-mailed me about this on Friday, and for some reason in my amusement at David Kirby’s antics over the weekend twisting a CDC report and then looking even more clueless as he modified his post in response to his errors being pointed out, producing a mangled mess that made even less sense than before, in all the fun, I totally forgot about the item.
And my blog mascot is not at all pleased. Here’s why:
MOSCOW – A monument to the enema, a procedure many people would rather not think about, has been unveiled at a spa in the southern Russian city of Zheleznovodsk.
The bronze syringe bulb, which weighs 800 pounds and is held by three angels, was unveiled at the Mashuk-Akva Term spa, the spa’s director said Thursday.
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Kharchenko, 50, said the monument cost $42,000 and was installed in a square in front of his spa on Wednesday. A banner declaring: “Let’s beat constipation and sloppiness with enemas” — an allusion to a line from “The Twelve Chairs,” a famous Soviet film comedy — was posted on one of the spa’s walls.
A sentiment with which, I’m sure, EneMan could agree wholeheartedly. (Certainly I’d agree about the “sloppiness with enemas” part–gross!) I’m sure he appreciates the bronze tribute to his raison d’être. One has to wonder if EneMan is brushing up on his Russian, the better to make his pilgrimage to Zheleznovodsk?
On the other hand, having pretty blonde nurses wearing high heels lined up by the giant enema is an image that conjures up connotations that aren’t exactly entirely wholesome.
