Dec 17 2011

Anti-Caturday post

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Usually, I try to accentuate the positive and tell you why other animals are so much more interesting than cats, but today I’m going right for the gutter and showing you why cats are evil. Behold, the cat penis:

You know who else has a penis like that? Satan.

Now you have another reason to get your cats neutered — so they don’t ever use that nightmarish thing.

(Also on Sb)

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Dr. Audley Z. Darkheart, liar and scoundrel

17 December 2011 at 7:57 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

It’s barbed, with more that a hundred tiny hooks.

That’s as far as I got. Not the best choice of viewing this early in the morning.
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davidct

17 December 2011 at 8:02 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Another example of the beauty of nature that proves god or perhaps the devil. It all depends one which delusion fits the moment. To fully appreciate nature we need more squid sex.
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Lofty

17 December 2011 at 8:03 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Yep, all our cats get done ASAP. They’re quite sociable without their sex drive. Our current two are a treasure, warm and fuzzy and above all, cute. Unlike those slimy things you’re into. (They’re just awesome instead)
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a3kr0n

17 December 2011 at 8:15 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Without digging into their claims, I find some of what they say hard to believe. Penis barbs are used for scratching out previous sperm? Really?
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'Tis Himself, OM

17 December 2011 at 8:18 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

You know who else has a penis like that? Satan.

How do you know that? Were you there?
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ChasCPeterson

17 December 2011 at 8:37 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

You always hurt the one you love…

I find some of what they say hard to believe. Penis barbs are used for scratching out previous sperm? Really?

Really. G**gle ‘dragonfly penis’ some time for more extreme examples.
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ChasCPeterson

17 December 2011 at 8:42 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

eh, should have linked to the original as originally planned.
That’s not one of Spike’s better moments.
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anuran

17 December 2011 at 8:46 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Sex can be a pretty visiou business.
If you’re squicked by barbed cat penes think about what happens to the poor octopus, how bedbugs do it and the bizarre fate of the male lanternfish
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Dick the Damned

17 December 2011 at 8:48 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

You know who else has a penis like that? Satan.

And i guess in the Abrahamic religions’ theology, God, (the Bible Bogey, the Torah Tyrant, The Koran Kacker), created Satan. No wonder Lilith got pissed off.
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Dr. Audley Z. Darkheart, liar and scoundrel

17 December 2011 at 9:04 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

If you’re squicked by barbed cat penes think about what happens to the poor octopus, how bedbugs do it and the bizarre fate of the male lanternfish

Nope, still too early. Let me get another cup of coffee in me before I start contemplating that squickiness.
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AussieMike

17 December 2011 at 9:19 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

I dont like cats but I didn’t know they could be that much of a ….. ‘prick’!!
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DLC

17 December 2011 at 9:20 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

But God Designed the cat’s gentleman’s sausage for a reason!
it says so in teh bible! !! 11!
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Brownian

17 December 2011 at 9:33 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Barbs would be helpful when trying to tuck one’s chub under one’s belt in fourth period math class and have it stay there.

These gecko-esque setae are useless bullshit.
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rowanvt

17 December 2011 at 9:37 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Neutering doesn’t just stop the mating urge… but those barbs are kept there by testosterone. When you neuter a cat, the barbs slowly go away! And the cat penis also faces ‘backwards’, which is why they have to sit so oddly to mate.

Cats are really really weird animals.
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PZ Myers

17 December 2011 at 9:38 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Setae? Suckers are so much more effective.
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hermanno

17 December 2011 at 9:41 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

So cats don´t go for every Tom Dick´n Hairy!

Shalom
Hermann
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Dick the Damned

17 December 2011 at 9:42 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Suckers are so much more effective.

That’s because they get organized in churches, temples, mosques, etc.
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Brownian

17 December 2011 at 9:50 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Suckers are so much more effective.

I thought I had those too!

Turned out to be ringworm.

I should really keep better track of where I put this thing.
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lordshipmayhem

17 December 2011 at 9:55 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

You know who else has a penis like that? Satan.

But Šatan’s wife Ingrid hasn’t complained at all, and indeed they have two young children together: Miroslav Jr and Viktoria.

It can’t be that bad…
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Dr. Audley Z. Darkheart, liar and scoundrel

17 December 2011 at 9:56 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Brownian:

I thought I had those too!

Turned out to be ringworm.

I should really keep better track of where I put this thing.

ARGHFLARGL!

That’s it. I’m stepping out of the Ghey Secks With Brownian line– some other sucker can have my spot.
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Brownian

17 December 2011 at 10:19 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Oh, Audley: like you’ve never lost something important, only to later find it behind the couch or in an IHOP syrup dispenser.
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schism

17 December 2011 at 10:20 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Now you have another reason to get your cats neutered — so they don’t ever use that nightmarish thing.

No need to get judgmental about it. Cats are just into S&M, ain’t no thing.
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Ms. Daisy Cutter

17 December 2011 at 10:23 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

My cat typically often wanders up to me while I’m at the computer to be held and petted. I was holding her when I started watching this video. After the female housecat in the video shrieked for the first time, my cat stopped purring and glared at the screen. After the second shriek, she got up and walked away.
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Ms. Daisy Cutter

17 December 2011 at 10:25 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Oh, and yeah, she’s spayed, but that happened after the local animal shelter found her wandering around pregnant with a litter of kittens.
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defaithed

17 December 2011 at 10:38 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Eve Cat non-nommed teh Maus o Gud’n'Evl. So Ceiling Cat sed to Eve Cat, “Ur gonna hav sum srs hurtz wen u giv birfs to yur kittehs. O, and also b4 that, wen Adam Cat boinks u, cuz just now ai put spikes on hiz junk. Srsly.”

- Paraphrased from Genesis 3, the LOLCat Bible
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Dr. Audley Z. Darkheart, liar and scoundrel

17 December 2011 at 10:38 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Brownian:

Oh, Audley: like you’ve never lost something important, only to later find it behind the couch or in an IHOP syrup dispenser.

Yeah, but it never came back with ringworm!! (It was Denny’s, not IHOP. Probably a miracle that I didn’t find it with something worse than ringworm, come to think of it.)
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shouldbeworking

17 December 2011 at 10:52 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

If gawd deigned the human penis, why is it required inthe rule book to get an after-market mod?
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Rey Fox

17 December 2011 at 10:57 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

At least you never found yours being sold by a street vendor on Second Avenue and had to haggle to get it back.
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carlie

17 December 2011 at 11:19 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Today is my first real Caturday in three months! :) If only I could find where that silly kitten is hiding…

She’s a girl, so no barbed penes anywhere around here, thankyouverymuch.
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Brownian

17 December 2011 at 11:21 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

That’s true, Rey. I didn’t have to haggle. The poor fellow was extremely grateful to give the accursed thing back.

Probably a miracle that I didn’t find it with something worse than ringworm, come to think of it.

If you’ve ever known anyone who’s worked there, you’ll never order the Ass Over My Hammy again.
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Gregory Greenwood

17 December 2011 at 11:33 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

After first hearing about this some years ago, I must admit that I never looked at tom cats in quite the same way again.

Even as a heterosexual bloke, the idea of a human barbed penis is wince-inducingly nasty. I can only imagine the kind of horror such an idea must hold for those among the horde who have greater contact with gentleman sausages than I.

At least vagina dentata are simply an urban legend…

… they are just an urban legend, right? Right?
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Dr. Audley Z. Darkheart, liar and scoundrel

17 December 2011 at 12:18 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Gregory:
Here you go:

I know, teeth in the vagina is an old joke – and I never thought I’d be reading something like this on my show. This piece goes back to an article I did some time ago about a gynecologist who reported that he actually saw some teeth in a vagina.

Can you imagine? Day in and day out, nothing but pap smears, and then one day you put in the speculum and there are some choppers staring back at you!

Well, that woman had a dermoid cyst. Dermoid cysts are derived from the outer layers of embryonic skin, and they are capable of growing hair and teeth and bones, anything that comes from the outer layers of the embryo. They can occur anywhere.

So this woman had one in the pelvic region and the cyst grew teeth, and when it ruptured through the wall where her uterus joins her vagina – there were the teeth. In my practice once, I saw one in the eyelid.

Teeth can grow in weird places.

Sleep well tonight.
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Gregory Greenwood

17 December 2011 at 12:55 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Dr. Audley Z. Darkheart, liar and scoundrel @ 32;

Teeth can grow in weird places.

Sleep well tonight.

Oh, what do know.

*shudder*

If anyone needs me, I’ll be in the foetal position…
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skybluskyblue

17 December 2011 at 1:53 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Some people think that Hirsuties coronae glandis
are related to these spines in humans, however, supposedly we lost the DNA code for it “…before our common ancestor split into modern humans and Neanderthals about 700,000 years ago…” [ Nat Geo makes the pun: “Human Evolution an ‘Impenetrable Mystery’” http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/03/110309-humans-men-penises-spines-dna-genome-science/.
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Ms. Daisy Cutter

17 December 2011 at 1:57 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Rey Fox:

At least you never found yours being sold by a street vendor on Second Avenue and had to haggle to get it back.

This happens all the time. It’s detachable.
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Part-Time Insomniac, Zombie Porcupine Nox Arcana Fan

17 December 2011 at 2:11 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Brownian, ringworm? On your . . . eww and . . . really?

*hides under the bed covers whimpering*
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Azkyroth

17 December 2011 at 2:36 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Do not taunt Rule 34.
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Dhorvath, OM

17 December 2011 at 2:46 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Ah shit, we have another Brownian clean up over here. Everyone get your suits on, I will take point. You, get that pressure up, garden hose just ain’t gonna cut it people.
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mikeconley

17 December 2011 at 3:31 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Barbed — for her pleasure.
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kristinc, ~delicate snowflake~

17 December 2011 at 3:51 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

She’s a girl, so no barbed penes anywhere around here, thankyouverymuch.

Ah ha ha. I have no doubt you’re going to get her fixed, but trust me when I say that if you have an unspayed female cat the first time she goes into heat you will have crowds of barbed penises around, whether you want them or not.
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Alethea H. Claw

17 December 2011 at 3:51 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

It’s not actually true that domestic cats are loners. Their wild-type ancestors most likely were, but domestics and their feral descendents form colonies.

*not talking about penes*
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Brownian

17 December 2011 at 4:14 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Brownian, ringworm? On your . . . eww and . . . really?

I left it among a pile of sweaty socks and forgot to do laundry for a bit. I don’t see what the big deal is.

Their wild-type ancestors most likely were, but domestics and their feral descendents form colonies.

Like Hutterites? My cat won’t farm for shit.
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feralboy12

17 December 2011 at 4:23 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

I dealt with ringworm on and off for about ten years. I think it’s finally subsided. Interestingly, odds are good that I got it from a cat.
It’s a great icebreaker at parties, though. “Say, did I mention I have ringworm?”
It took a long time, but I did finally find an over-the-counter product that does some good. I believe the scientific name is “baby powder.”
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'Tis Himself, OM

17 December 2011 at 4:36 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

It’s a great icebreaker at parties, though. “Say, did I mention I have ringworm?”

The woman discussed in #32 has you beat. “Say, did you know my vagina has teeth?”
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Ragutis

17 December 2011 at 4:51 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Brownian says:

I should really keep better track of where I put this thing.

I learned that valuable lesson back in ’92. (For you confused youngsters, there was a time when MTV featured music videos and performances)
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Ragutis

17 December 2011 at 4:56 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

*sigh*

I really should finish catching up on a thread before replying.
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imthegenieicandoanything

17 December 2011 at 4:59 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Cheeses!

PZ, it isn’t a crime at all, though quite an embarrassment at times, but you’re so American, middle-class CONVENTIONAL sometimes!!!!

Ah, well. Even the best of us are just human beings: mortal and flawed ^ and I am not even close to being among the “best of us” but simply a mehum trying to live a honest life, and failing to see some large percentage of my own faults and hypocrisy.
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brett

17 December 2011 at 5:09 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

I remember seeing a video in 9th or 10th grade that showed brief clips of a bunch of animals mating, from birds to elephants. Lions mating were probably there, but I remember the elephants and galapagos turtles mating clips more – the elephants because the male had a huge penis, and the galapagos because it actually look hilarious to see the male turtle on his hind legs, quivering with every thrust.
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carlie

17 December 2011 at 5:09 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

have no doubt you’re going to get her fixed,

Oh, she already has been. The last day or so I thought she was biting at the couple of stitches that haven’t dissolved yet, but then I realized she was self-suckling.
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ChasCPeterson

17 December 2011 at 5:21 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Yeah, mating tortoises are among the funniest sights in nature, no doubt.
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Nerd of Redhead, Dances OM Trolls

17 December 2011 at 5:27 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

You, get that pressure up, garden hose just ain’t gonna cut it people.

Yeah, I had to get the fire hose out to clean up the Saloon after last night’s wake for Hitch. Not one shot glass (specially strengthened) was broken after all that Black Label was imbibed (saw several dented sledge hammers, so I know that there were several individuals who tried).
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Ms. Daisy Cutter

17 December 2011 at 5:43 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Yeah, mating tortoises are among the funniest sights in nature, no doubt.

EEEEE! EEEEE! EEEEE!
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Rey Fox

17 December 2011 at 6:14 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

EEEEE! EEEEE! EEEEE!

Actually, they have a disturbingly human-like moan.
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JohnnieCanuck

17 December 2011 at 6:22 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Funnier than humans? That’s pretty seriously messed up, that.
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kreativekaos

17 December 2011 at 7:22 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Love that sentence directly underneath the video frame! Too funny!
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Part-Time Insomniac, Zombie Porcupine Nox Arcana Fan

17 December 2011 at 8:49 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Brownian, RINGWORM! Only one of the most disgusting things be afflicted with. Not that I ever had it, but pictures I’ve seen make me hope it stays that way for the rest of my life.
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palefury

18 December 2011 at 12:06 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

It is likely (though not yet conclusively proven) that humans could still have penile spines if it weren’t for a single genomic deletion.
Boy are us girls glad that this particular step in human evolution took place.
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catof many faces

18 December 2011 at 12:49 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

P.Z.! For shame!

I didn’t expect an argumentum ad bacculum from you! wait, those aren’t the bacculum…err, argumentum ad spiniculum? Ah heck I can’t remember enough latin for spines…

heh.
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brontodon

1 January 2012 at 8:45 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

If squid had a penis like that, you’d think it was awesome, and evidence of their vast superiority!