10 CommentsThe late John K. Lattimer, the military buff and ex-professor and chairman of the urology department at Columbia’s College of Physicians and Surgeons, was noted in yesterday’s New York Times as the latest owner of Napoleon’s penis. Check it:
“Dr. Lattimer, a urologist, could claim a professional interest in Napoleon’s genitalia. Not so its previous owner, the Philadelphia bookseller and collector A. S. W. Rosenbach, who took a ‘Rabelaisian delight’ in the relic, according to his biographer, Edwin Wolf. When Rosenbach put the penis on display at the Museum of French Art in New York, visitors peered into a vitrine to see something that looked like a maltreated shoelace, or a shriveled eel.”
Concludes the columnist who made these observations: “it’s time to let Napoleon’s penis rest in peace.”
Thanks to CJS for the tip.
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@HCA I’m ashamed to admit that I watch the history channel and saw a special on Napoleon’s penis. I have to admit it’s fascinating…although I wouldn’t spend very much money on the thing.
On another note, I looked at my beautiful penis and shuddered to think that one day it will shrivel into a dry pea-pod.
Ubi sunt qui ante nos fuerent?
@is there some kind of curse associated with this?
@so who has the penis now??! Columbia??!?!
@Columbia has it It’s part of the administration’s new strategy for the Manhattanville expansion.
@ROFL on so many levels…
@CJS the article also points out that dr. lattimer possessed the bloodstained collar lincoln had on while assassinated, as well as hermann goehring’s cyanide.
@Why would Lincoln wear a bloodstained collar to his assassination?
@CJS yeah, you got me. would that transferred epithets worked better in english.
@you're right, professors ARE just like us! for i, too, collect genitalia of great military leaders of the early 19th century.
good, i thought i was the only on
@shit *one