The great unanswered question: How many condoms can you put on a penis at once? These people make a gallant effort to discover the answer, but are stymied when they run out of condoms…after slipping 625 of them on.
Then, unfortunately, there’s the step where they use a hacksaw to remove them…
(via ZayZayEm)
What the frell just happened to this blog?
Here’s hoping that book gets finished soon!
PZ, surely you jest…and not even a “work-safe” warning (granted the content is well explained beforehand).
You were on topic all day, and now this? Did you get a Starbucks Caramel latte at 4:30 in the afternoon? Freudian Slips are quite common these days, but I do believe you’ve invented the Freudian Blog Post.
Do not attempt this experiment with an actual penis — severe injury may result.
You know that some drunken frat boys somewhere are going to decide that this sounds like a challenge and a great idea for a contest. Faced with that possibility, I think we all have a responsibility to see that this article gets the widest possible circulation. Do it for Darwin.
Quite the science project! I would never have guessed that was possible.
Zing! Heh, reminds me of the Darwin Award from a few years ago. The one where some guy decided that the ball cleaners at the batting range might be good for something else…
“Don’t try this at home”? Where the heck else would you try it? Huh?
Frankly, I am much more impressed with one of their other experiments, “How To Nail Jello To a Wall.” With sufficient replication and fine-tuning, their findings might provide valuable information in dealing with liberal theology.
This site has a lot of great ideas for science fair projects.
I wonder what teachers would say about a condom experiment for the annual science fair, especially in schools where the word, “condom”, isn’t used because only abstinence education is taught.
I’d love to be a fly on the wall if a kid in my local school district proposed a science projects using condoms.
In order to make it more interestimg, he should have conducted the experiment in 2 parts. 1. See how many condoms you can fit on a circumcised penis and 2. See how many condoms you can fit on an uncircumcised penis.
May the strongest penis win.
I’m actually a little disappointed that this was merely an experiment, and made use of apparatus rather than flesh+blood.
So…. where are the newspaper articles about the drunken fratboys trying this for real? Come on, don’t keep me waiting!
“With its pointed top laid open, the pale and rubbery latex-encased dildo was beginning to resemble a giant squid being filleted.”
This is the true reason PZ found this so captivating!
Is it still ok to use the word squid in children’s books?
Me too. I’m further disappointed that they didn’t actually try them out. I’d like to know if it’s comparable to taking a shower with 625 raincoats on.
Hmm. That would be the theology where you admit you don’t know everything, as apposed to the one where you know nothing, but quote passages out of a dusty old book so you can *claim* that someone told you something right? Yeah, its a whole hell of a lot harder to nail rational thought to walls, boards, crosses… than shit that never changes, never learns, never improves and is actually proud of those attributes.
Kagehi:
Ah, no, not at all. The “liberal theology” referred to here would instead be one where you are very careful that any claim you make is too vague, metaphorical, symbolic, analogical, numinous, indistinct, elevated, obscure, abstruse, cryptic, general, non-specific, and/or abstract to be criticized for content.
Example: “What is God?”
Answer: “Well, let me tell you what God is not. God is not anything that atheists might think it is, that’s for sure.”
If some frat bots tried this on their own penis I guess the result would be ‘evolution in action’.
Ken
Ooops,
I screwed up the singular/plural, but messing up the y for a t made it even a bit Freudian.
I promise, I didn’t try to do that.
Ken
Golly goodness gosh. I always learn something new when I read Pharyngula. Who would even think to do this?