Spoon Week: Monday Pics

 

Last week’s mention of mate Arthur referring to blocks of flats as ‘flocks of bats’ had me thinking of the term for such reversal of letters, spoonerisms. That in turn had me thinking of other things associated with spoons, so that eventually I decided that the rest of the week’s posts would be on the theme of spoons.

 

Monday is pics day so, today, some pics about spoon art. . .  

 

Twisted Reality, a sculpture by Tomas Misura in the 2007 Sculptures by the Sea exhibition, an annual display of sculptures on the coastal walk from Bondi to Tamarama. It had a $34,000 price tag but I am unaware as to whether it sold. Misura is a professional blacksmith with a Czech background who now lives at Bondi.

 

Spoon sculpture by Japanese sculptor Yoshizen. The hands are placed on the figure’s chest to hide a hole in the wood.

 

Flight from Servitude by Leslie (Les) Christensen, Arkansas, USA. As with most of her sculptures, Christensen uses ordinary, everyday objects (in the present case, spoons) to convey escape, freedom and growth.

 

On a farm in Cramlington, Northumberland, England.

 

 

Spoonbridge and Cherry sculpture at the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, shown in summer and winter

 

 

Jill Townsley, “Spoons” - constructed from over 9,000 plastic spoons and over 3,000 rubber bands, exhibition 2008

 

Francois Legault, spoon chandeliers

 

Salt and pepper spoon art

 

 

Sculptures, I am unaware of the artist

 

Sculptor Paul Vendel uses spoons to create bizarre but fascinating sculptures that resemble toxic growths or alien viruses in trees.

 

A volunteer stands besides a giant spoon and coin replicas surrounded by yellow coin banks for poor children around the world during a charity event by World Vision in central Seoul.
 

 

Great Moments in Court

In 1979 defendants Arno and Steer appealed to the California Court of Appeals their conviction on charges of possession of obscene films with intent to distribute. The evidence against them consisted of surveillance observations through their office windows by police using 10x binoculars. The majority decision by Justices Thompson and Lillie was that the evidence should be suppressed as having been illegally obtained, that observations of defendants by police officers made through binoculars without a search warrant violated defendants' reasonable expectation of privacy. 

Justice Hanson was of a different opinion. He stated that the majority opinion was unclear, contained contradictory statements and departed from precedent. He declared that the majority were seeking to make new law by introducing a new formula for the use of binoculars by police officers. “In my opinion the new formula advanced is unwise and not in the best interest of sound public policy in that it unduly restricts law enforcement officers' use of a vital tool (binoculars) in their war against the expanding organised crime and vice problem.” 

These comments criticising the majority judgment did not go down well with the majority. They added a footnote to the case as follows: 

"Footnote 2: 

We feel compelled by the nature of the attack in the dissenting opinion to spell out a response: 

1. Some answer is required to the dissent's charge. 

2. Certainly we do not endorse "victimless crime." 

3. How that question is involved escapes us. 

4. Moreover, the constitutional issue is significant. 

5. Ultimately it must be addressed in light of precedent. 

6. Certainly the course of precedent is clear. 

7. Knowing that, our result is compelled. (See Funk & Wagnall's The New Cassell's German Dict., p. 408, in conjunction with fn. 6 of dis. opn. of Douglas, J., in Ginsberg v. New York (1967) 390 U.S. 629, 655-656 [20 L.Ed.2d 195, 212-213, 88 S.Ct. 1274].)"

The key to the footnote is to read the initial letters of the 7 points, which spells out the word SCHMUCK. 

Justice Hanson responded to that comment in his own footnote: 

"Footnote 14: 

I have heretofore eschewed responding to footnote 2 of the majority opinion in kind since it would be beneath the dignity of this office. Although I still will not respond in kind, with the filing of a modification to footnote 2 on March 20, 1979, some comment is compelled. 

I decry the lack of propriety, collegiality and judicial temperament displayed in footnote 2. I abhor the loss of public respect for the legal profession and the judiciary footnote 2 has engendered by reason of the report in the Los Angeles Times on March 13, 1979 (circulation 1,034,329). One certainly cannot fault the Los Angeles Times for using an English dictionary (Webster's) since California published opinions for over 125 years have been written in English and our jurisdiction obviously does not extend seven thousand miles to the Rhine in Germany.

I construe the Ginsberg reference in footnote 2 within the context of the case at bench as a personal affront to every California citizen and their duly elected representatives in the California State Legislature who have deemed it a wise public policy to enact our criminal obscenity laws and to all public servants charged with the responsibility of enforcing those laws. It is no wonder that California has the odious distinction of being the porno capital of the world." 

People v. Arno (1979) 90 CA3d 505 [Crim. 33155 Second Dist, Div One Mar., 7, 1979] 

http://jweinsteinlaw.com/pdfs/People%20v_%20Arno%20(1979)%2090%20CA3d%20505.htm 

5 Minutes of Biography: Thomas Midgley Jnr

 

Whilst watching QI a couple of nights ago, the question was asked by host Stephen Fry: “Which human being in history has done the most damage to the environment?”

For those not aware, QI stands for “Quite Interesting” and, according to its website, it is a comedy panel quiz that is “about finding undiscovered connections and seeing hidden patterns”. In the process it reveals little known facts, shatters myths and has some quite funny moments. It is never dull.

A clip of the QI segment dealing with the question posed at the beginning can be seen by clicking on the following link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZAnnvSOEmw

There were various guesses and answers by the panellists, including George Bush, Henry Ford and Rudolf Diesel. All wrong. The correct answer is Thomas Midgley (1899-1944), a man described by environmental historian J R McNeill as having "had more impact on the atmosphere than any other single organism in Earth's history."

A short bio follows:

 

Born in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania inn 1899 to a father who wan inventor, Midgley also became an inventor, one who has been little known but whose effect has been profound and widespread. Having graduated from Cornell University in 1911 with a degree in mechanical engineering, he started working with General Motors in 1916.

In 1921 Midgley began experimenting with additives to petrol to make car internal combustion engines run smoother after he discovered that iodine added to kerosene reduced “knocking” in cars. ("Knock" was an audible pinging sound in engines when they were driven near their maximum load capacity, becoming worse at high engine-compression ratios. It could destroy an engine if it continued long enough). Midgley didn’t just want to reduce knocking, he wanted to eliminate it altogether so he worked his way through the periodic table until he discovered the additive that worked: lead. General Motors, the joint holder of the patent, oil companies and other car manufacturers strongly promoted the new leaded petrol, there was much more profit in lead as an additive than ethanol. As a further promotional and marketing device, they did not call the additive lead. Instead, to disguise the toxic effect, it was called “Ethyl”. Midgley received awards for his anti-knock compounds in motor fuels.

Sign on an antique gasoline pump advertising Ethyl anti-knock compound.

Notwithstanding that workers were dying from lead poisoning in the plants manufacturing leaded petrol, production continued unabated.

Midgley himself developed lead poisoning, writing in January 1923: "After about a year's work in organic lead, I find that my lungs have been affected and that it is necessary to drop all work and get a large supply of fresh air." He then convalesced in Miami, Florida.

That did not stop him continuing to promote the benefits, and safety, of leaded petrol. In October 1924 he took part in such a press conference, poured the Ethyl product over his hands and breathed in the vapour for 60 seconds, declaring that it was safe to do so every day. A few months later he sought treatment in Europe for lead poisoning from that demonstration.

When the effects of lead as a pollutant became known - brain and blood disorders and, in children, antisocial behaviour and lowered IQ – the use of lead in petrol was phased out (from the late 1970’s) and banned.

Having dealt with cars and petrol, Midgley turned his attention to refrigerators in the late 1920’s. At that the fridges used flammable, toxic and explosive gases such as sulfur dioxide, methyl chloride, and ammonia to keep things cool. Being flammable, they would sometimes catch fire. This would cause the fridge to explode and risk damage and destruction to the homes of the owners, who were for the most part the wealthy, the main persons able to afford refrigerators. Midgley searched for an alternative gas that would not catch fire and eventually found one, naming it “Freon”. This discovery also enabled the mass marketing of refrigerators. Freon was the world’s first chlorofluorocarbon, or CFC, and Freon and other CFCs soon replaced the various toxic or explosive substances previously used as refrigerants in the 1930’s. They were later also used in other applications, such as propellants in aerosol spray cans and in asthma inhalers. Midgley received further awards.

Unfortunately for the environment CFC’s had the effect of depleting the ozone layer, reducing humanity's protection from skin cancers and eye damage caused by ultraviolet radiation, causing mutations in human DNA and weakening of the immune system. CFC’s have been increasingly restricted and phased out from the late 1970’s.

Midgley did not live to see his two greatest inventions – leaded petrol and CFC refrigerants – come to be regarded as some of the greatest environmental disasters ever.

He died as he lived, from an invention that seemed like a good idea going wrong and proving disastrous. He had invented leaded petrol at age 33 and CFC refrigerant at 40. At 51 he developed polio and became increasingly homebound. He designed a series of pulley mechanisms which were installed in his house, allowing him to get from his bed to the bathroom without assistance. At age 55 he became entangled in the ropes of the device and died from strangulation.

At an address one month before his death he had recited his own poem:

“When I feel old age approaching,
and it isn’t any sport,
and my nerves are growing rotten,
and my breath is growing short,
and my eyes are growing dimmer,
and my hair is turning white,
and I lack the old ambitions
when I wander out at night,
though many men my senior
may remain when I’m gone,
I have no regrets to offer
just because I’m passing on,
let this epitaph be graven
on my tomb in simple style,
this one did a lot of living

in a mighty little while.”

Given what he achieved in his 55 years, he must be regarded as the greatest personal contributor to health and environmental damage, although his intentions had always been to improve human life.

 

 

 

Funny Friday

Saul is working in his store when he hears a booming voice from above: "Saul, sell your business." He ignores it. It goes on for days. "Saul, sell your business for $3 million." After weeks of this, he relents, sells his store. The voice says “Go to Las Vegas." He asks why. "Saul, take the $3 million to Las Vegas." He obeys, goes to a casino. Voice says, "Saul, go to the blackjack table and put it down all on one hand." He hesitates but knows he must. He’s dealt an 18. The dealer has a six showing. "Saul, take a card." What? The dealer has – "Take a card!" He tells the dealer to hit him. Saul gets an ace. Nineteen. He breathes easy. "Saul, take another card." What? "TAKE ANOTHER CARD!" He asks for another card. It’s another ace. He has twenty. "Saul, take another card," the voice commands. “I have twenty!” Saul shouts. "TAKE ANOTHER CARD!!" booms the voice. “Hit me,” Saul says. He gets another ace. Twenty one. The booming voice goes: "Un-fucking-believable!" 

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One afternoon, a man was riding in the back of his limousine when he noticed two men eating grass by the road side. He ordered his driver to stop and he got out to investigate. “Why are you eating grass?” he asked one man. “We don’t have any money for food,” the poor man replied. “Oh, come along with me then.” the man from the limousine said excitedly. “But sir, I have a wife with two children!” “Bring them along! And you, come with us too!” he said to the other man. “But sir, I have a wife with six children!” the second man answered. “Bring them as well!” So, they all climbed into the car, which was no easy task, even for a vehicle as large as the limousine. One of the poor fellows expressed his gratitude, “Sir, you are too kind. Thank you for taking all of us with you.” The rich man replied, “No, thank you… the grass at my place is about three feet tall and I could use the help!” 

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A psychiatrist was conducting a group therapy session with five young mothers and their small children. “You all have obsessions,” he observed. 

To the first mother, Mary, he said, “You are obsessed with eating. You've even named your daughter Candy.” 

He turned to the second Mum, Ann: “Your obsession is with money. It manifests itself in your children's names, Penny, Goldie and Frank.”

He turned to the third Mum, Joyce: “Your obsession is alcohol. This too shows itself in your children's names: Brandy and Sherry. You even called the cat Whisky."

He then turned to the fourth Mum, June: “Your obsession is with flowers. Your girls are called Rose, Daphne & Poppy.” 

At this point, the fifth mother, Kathy, quietly got up, took her little boy by the hand and whispered, “Come on, Dick, this guy has no idea what he's talking about. Let's go pick up Fanny and Willy and go home.” 

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Two young boys go into a chemists, pick up a box of Tampax and go to the counter. The woman says to the older boy "How old are you?" "Eight" he replies. The woman says "Do you know how these are used?" The boy replies “No, not exactly, but they're not for me, they're for him, he's my brother, he's four. We saw the ad on TV and it said with these you'll be able to swim and ride a bike and he can't do either!" 

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Corn Corner:

A grasshopper walks into a bar and sits down. The bartender says, "Hey, we have a drink named after you." 

The grasshopper says, "You have a drink named Steve?"

Seattle's Gum Wall

"Does your chewing gum lose its flavour

On the bedpost overnight?"

- Lonnie Donegan, 

song lyric from Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour

In the early 1990’s, people had to wait in line to get tickets to Theatresports at the Market Theater in Seattle. The box office for the Market Theater was near an alley called Post Alley and the patrons, annoyed at having to queue for tickets, began sticking their chewing gum on the wall of the alley. The gum was also used to stick small coins onto the wall. The theatre people twice had a clearing of the blobs of gum but the blobs kept reappearing, eventually without the coins. On the basis that if you can’t lick them, join them (ha ha) and recognising that removal was a failing effort, the theatre people decided in 1999 to leave the chewing gum there. That decision may have been helped by the wall having been certified one of Seattle’s tourist attractions. Today the wall, which measures approximately 6 metres high (15 feet) and 16 metres long (50 feet) is covered in gum up to 5 centimetres (2 inches) or more thick. The practice of sticking gum on the wall continues to the present day, including names, hearts and peace signs made from gum. Be warned that in 2009 the Seattle Gum Wall came second, after the Blarney Stone, in a list of the germiest tourist attractions. 

Is that an Oz flag above?  Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, Oi Oi Oi.

How do they get the gum that high? Standing on shoulders?

The Gum Wall is now a favourite spot for wedding photographs.

Neighbours

Every neighbourhood has someone who goes all out with Christmas lights and decorations. Ours is no exception. I have previously written about the elderly couple who decorate their house each year to such a degree that the dials on the electricity meter must be spinning so fast that they are smoking, as with Clark Griswald when he finally had his lights working. The lights attract people from all over and are a wonderment for the children who stand in their pyjamas, often clutching a doll or their parents, but with mouths open in silent awe. It wouldn’t surprise me if it attracted aliens from space who would have the same reaction. Read last year’s post here: 

http://bytesdaily.blogspot.com.au/2011/12/christmas-lights.html

The house is located around the corner from where I live so I see it each night. Over the last few weeks I have watched the strands of lights, the displays and the manger take shape until tonight the lights were on. Each year the decorations and lights are grander than the previous year, as it was again tonight. 

Some pics taken on my mobile telephone: 

The photos don't do it justice in that they don't capture the brightness of the lights and the immense display.  For anyone interested, it is in Fraser Street, Dulwich Hill (NSW).

The manger in the front yard is in two levels, this is the bottom level.

The upper level

On the topic of neighbours, I live next door to a block of flats, or “flock of bats” as my mate Arthur usually calls them. There is never any problem, the next door owners and occupants go about their business, we go about ours and we usually give each other a nod if we see each other. We have a high fence with Boston Ivy that acts as an effective privacy screen, for the neighbours as much as for us. 

Last weekend we noticed from higher up, from the landing at our rear door, that our immediate neighbour had erected a new satellite dish. Not just a satellite dish, this is one that I now call The Death Star. 

Don’t get me wrong, it doesn’t bother me, it is just so...big. 

Here are some pics: 

You call that a satellite dish?  This is a satellite dish.

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Some thoughts about neighbours:

Sometimes a neighbour whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves.

-- Willa Cather 

Withdraw your foot from your neighbour's house; lest he be weary of you, and so hate you. 

--  Proverbs 25:17

Your next-door neighbor is not a man; he is an environment. He is the barking of a dog; he is the noise of a piano; he is a dispute about a party wall; he is drains that are worse than yours, or roses that are better than yours.

-- Gilbert K. Chesterton 

Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level.

-- Quentin Crisp 

Good fences make good neighbours.

-- Robert Frost

Neighbours, everybody needs good neighbours

With a little understanding, you can find the perfect blend

Neighbours, should be there for one another

That's when good neighbours become good friends

- Theme from Oz TV show Neighbours

Tuesday Quote: Theodore Dalrymple

 

"[A] man . . .the other day pointed out that I was never bored. I hadn’t thought of that before, but it’s true: I’m never bored. I’m appalled, horrified, angered, but never bored. The world appears to me so infinite in its variety that many lifetimes could not exhaust its interest. So long as you can still be surprised, you have something to be thankful for." 

- Theodore Dalrymple

 

Bio notes for Theodore Dalrymple:

 

• Pen name of Anthony Daniels (1949 - ), English writer, retired prison doctor and psychiatrist.  (In case you're wondering, he is not the actor by the same name who plays C3PO in Star Wars). 

• Has worked in hostile and difficult environments, including countries in Africa, the east end of London and in prisons.

• Is a contributor to various magazines and newspapers, and has written a number of books: 

Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass 

Our Culture, What’s Left of It 

Spoilt Rotten: The Toxic Cult of Sentimentality 

• Based on his experience of working with criminals and the mentally ill, he has frequently argued in his writing that Western liberal and progressive views have resulted in a loss of individual responsibility for one’s actions. This has caused a loss of traditional norms, contributing to the rise in richer countries of an underclass associated and characterised by violence, criminality, sexually transmitted disease, welfare dependency and drug abuse. 

• He is frequently criticised as being overly conservative and pessimistic; defenders comment that his conservatism is accurate and realistic.

 

In 2010 British MP, author and journalist Daniel Hannan wrote of Theodore Dalrymple Dalrymple's work "takes pessimism about human nature to a new level. Yet its tone is never patronising, shrill or hectoring. Once you get past the initial shock of reading about battered wives, petty crooks and junkies from a non-Left perspective, you find humanity and pathos".

 

Some other Theodore Dalrymple thoughts and quotations:

 

“The bravest and most noble are not those who take up arms, but those who are decent despite everything; who improve what it is in their power to improve, but do not imagine themselves to be saviours. In their humble struggle is true heroism.” 

 

“When every benefit received is a right, there is no place for good manners, let alone for gratitude.” 

 

“There is nothing that an intellectual less likes to change than his mind, or a politician his policy.” 

 

“If the history of the 20th Century proved anything, it proved that however bad things were, human ingenuity could usually find a way to make them worse.”

 

 

 

 

Monday Pic: Elliot

The third and final photo of my kids for the Monday Pic item is of my son, Elliot. He was aged 8 when we decorated the tree for Christmas. He wanted to place the star on the top as the first step but I told him that that was always the last step, the most important and meaningful decoration of them all. When we had finished the decorations but for the star, Kate, Thomas and I took a break and sat on the couch. Elliot (wearing one of my T shirts) quietly moved a chair to the tree and reached up to place the star. I had my camera with me and grabbed the shot. 

I know it’s a bit sentimental and Norman Rockwellish . . .

but hey, if you can’t be sentimental at Christmas, especially when it comes to the innocence of children, when can you? 

Elliot now:

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Pulitzer and World Press Photographs of the Year: 1953

Continuing the list of the winners of 

• the Pulitzer Prize for Photography, from inception in 1942; and 

• the World Press Photograph of the Year, from inception in 1955: 

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Year: 

1953

Award:
Pulitzer Prize for Photography

Photographer:
William M Gallagher of Flint (Mich) Journal
 

Photograph: 
“Adlai’s Worn Sole”

William M. Gallagher (1923 – 1975) was a photographer with the Flint Journal in Flint, Michigan for 27 years. 

Gallagher was awarded the 1953 Pulitzer for his photograph of 1952 presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson seated on a platform with Michigan Governor Ge Mennen Williams. 

According to the Pulitzer jury, Gallagher’s photograph was “an imaginative sidelight on a national figure, reflecting the photographer’s discernment and news judgment.” 

Gallagher had waited for a good shot in front of Adlai Stevenson during his election campaign. He later recalled “As I was kneeling there he started going over the notes of his speech and casually crossed his legs. This brought the shoe up right in front of me. I couldn’t miss seeing the hole. As quietly as I could, I pre-focused my camera and set it on the floor at arms’ length. I had to spot the camera by guesswork because it was impossible for me to lie on the floor. 

Gallagher didn't take the photo seriously and didn't think the Journal would publish it since they endorsed Stevenson's Republican opponent Dwight D Eisenhower, so he gave it to his editor saying "I just finished this for the hell of it. I don't suppose a Republican paper would want to use it." However, the Journal ran the photo on the front page. The New York Times wrote that Gallagher's photo was "one of the outstanding pictures of the campaign", perhaps because it contrasted with Stevenson's serious, patrician image. Stevenson was sent an "avalanche" of shoes by people who saw the image. 

When Gallagher won the Pulitzer Stevenson sent him a telegram reading "Glad to hear you won with a hole in one." 

On one occasion Gallagher was sent to cover a crime scene, crossed police barriers and hopped into a running police helicopter. Motioning for the pilot to take off as if he were the person the chopper was expecting, the pilot left for the scene. He obtained pictures that no one else was able to.

Gallagher died of meningitis at age 52.
 

William M Gallagher

 

Freud and Penis Envy

(The following item started off as a short explanation of Freudian beliefs about penis envy as an introduction to a little bit of humour. It ended up longer than first intended in that the notes on Freud are of interest on their own). 

Sigmund Freud (or the “Freud Dude”, as he is referred to in Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, where it is pronounced [as memory serves] as “Frood Dude”) had some pretty weird ideas, even if he is known as The Father of Psychoanalysis. 

Speaking of Freud as a father, there is a previous post in Bytes about the phrase “Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar” supposedly spoken by him. Read it at: 

http://bytesdaily.blogspot.com/2010/01/quote-sigmund-freud.html

One of the crazy ideas that the Freud Dude had is known as penis envy. 

Some comments: 

• In Freudian psychoanalysis, females during their psychosexual development come to the realisation that they do not have a penis. This realisation is seen as a defining moment in the development of gender and sexual identity for females. 

• This psychoanalytic theory further holds that females are initially traumatised by the lack of a penis, having feelings of inferiority and psychic conflict. The female wants to be a boy because boys have one and she doesn’t. She blames her mother and becomes closer to her father. These feelings will eventually inspire her development of an Oedipal Complex. (Boys also develop Oedipal Complexes but for different reasons.  The Oedipal Complex is more common in males.  An Oedipal Complex refers to a child subconsciously sexually desiring the parent of the opposite gender). 

• The penis envy of the female will eventually be replaced by the desire for a child but, according to Freud, unlike males, females never emerge from the psychological mess of penis envy, Oedipal Complex and the trauma of recognising that she is no more than a castrated male. 

• For Freud there was a parallel reaction to penis envy in males when they realise that girls do not have a penis, resulting in males having castration anxiety. 

• In Freudian terms, the psyche of each one of us is made up of three elements: the id, the superego and the ego. The id is pure wants, pure instinct, the drives and wants that each of us have; to be fed when hungry, to be warm when cold, to have sex when aroused. The superego is the ethical component of the personality, providing the moral standards by which people operate. It is learned behaviour and punishes for misbehaviour by feelings of conscience. It is the superego that enables us to be part of society. Whereas the id is pure instinct and wants immediate gratification, the superego requires restraint, moderation and postponement of gratification, if necessary. The conflict between the id and the superego produces the ego, what Freud defined as a set of psychic functions such as judgement, tolerance, reality-testing, control, planning, defence, synthesis of information, intellectual functioning, and memory. In summary, Freud’s model of the psyche, postulates the id as the set of uncoordinated instinctual trends; the superego as the critical and moralising part and the ego as the organised, realistic part. 

• To return to the penis envy aspect, it was Freud’s belief that boys emerged from their Oedipal complex because they identified with their rival and forbidding fathers, giving them a much better superego. Girls did not build up superegos of the same quality, with the result being a series of feminine characteristics: the woman "displays a lesser sense of justice, a lesser inclination to submit herself to the great necessities of life," "she more often allows herself to be guided in her decisions by tender and hostile sentiments." 

Needless to say, Freud saw the universe as phallocentric and could only conceive of women in negative terms. 

Perhaps the whole issue would have been a lot simpler for the Feud Dude, and he may well have revised his ideas, if he had heard the following, humour I mentioned in the opening paragraph: 

A little boy and a little girl are comparing what is inside their knickers. When the little girl realises that she doesn’t have what the boy has, he begins to taunt her. She becomes distraught and runs home. A little while later she comes back, skipping and no longer upset. She says to the boy “I told my mum what you said and she said not to worry, that with one of these I can get as many of those as I want when I’m older.”

It was pointed out to me that yesterday's Funny Friday did not contain a Corn Corner item.  Here is one to make up for that omission: