December 04, 2006

Sand in My Eyes! Storybook sand sculptures. These photographs are OK in themselves, but some of the ads beside 'em are probably NSFW.
posted by beeswacky 17 years ago
  • The work was commended as strongly vaginal?
  • I like the crumbling Tower of Babel. Was surprised to learn this past summer that a number of people actually make a living traveling the world doing this sort of thing on the international sand sculpture circuit. Must be a pleasant vocation.
  • (cue country bass line) The angry man Inside her twat He told fortunes And I'll tell you what He was right Most of time Except once a month When he became blind He got so angry That he saw red Or maybe it Was something else instead.
  • So is that Lenin down there?
  • Do they add something other than water to the sand? Definitely prefer the buildings to the figures. They must have very big buckets and spades.
  • *sigh* Ach, enough o' such twattle, ye twat-addled twits. Yon isn't a twat, but a Cave. Those wee circles are intended to represent stones and rocks in the earth, not lice. A theme of these displays derives from the Arabian Nights (aka Tales of the Thousand Nights and One Night), with recognizable episodes from Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, etc. A literate monkey with a taste for the bawdy might be interested in reading Burton's unexpurgated translation, which runs to ten volumes plus six supplemental ones, and is an enjoyably exotic read. However, the majority of folk have generally contented themselves with stories less racy which have been selected and adapted for children and a genteel Victorian reader.
  • Twat? Isn't that a nun's hat?
  • A summary of the Browning twat question given here. Meanwhile, found this: Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 twat n 1: a man who is a stupid fool [syn: fathead, goof, bozo, jackass, goose, cuckoo, zany] 2: obscene term for female genitals ... (Must say it seems bee-fitting that an even-handed dollop of disparagement is dished out to both genders, Abiezer. Respectfully yours, in the interests of poetic justice.)
  • Definitely gets more of a run-out in sense one than sense two back home bees.
  • Heh. Same here.
  • I was going to be all excited about the Petra, but then they had to go and have a ziggurat with votive statues in front and I was just bowled over. Carefully. Away from the sand.
  • *delighted to know that her guess about the Arabian Nights was on track These are spectacular photographed at night. And yes, Islander, the Tower of Babel is incrediBabel!