The Things My Coworkers Think Of . . .

[DGoddessChardonnay]

We recently had a reset on our pet supplies/toys/treats last month.

Since then, we've been getting the new items in for the recently set planogram. Some of the items are definitely stuff I've not seen before.

Which brings me to Daria, who was going through the blue totes today and asked me if I'd ever heard of "Steer Pizzle."

I had no idea, but I found myself taking my iPhone off the holster and opening Safari and googling the term.

I really wish now I hadn't. But let's just say we both had a good laugh out of it. So did Gump and Goldie when we went into the back office to tell them.

I don't think I'll be feeding any of that to Abby, that's for sure.

So if you're wondering what "steer pizzle" is, check it out.

[fireheart]

Oh good lord.

Given I'm going out today, I might just have a look around in the pet sections at my local stores for any "pizzle"

[telecom_goddess]

omg omg omg omg

and now I want to for having seen that.

[dalesys]

Well, the steer doesn't miss it as much as a bull would...

[wolfie]

Add a couple "rocky mountain oysters" to a "steer pizzle" and you've got "meat and 2 veg", or "twig and berries".

[Hanzoku]

Eh, at least they're making use of (more) of the body this way. It's not like the animal cares where it's gone, and I know our dogs like this sort of thing (though they haven't gotten one yet.)

[DGoddessChardonnay]

Eh, at least they're making use of (more) of the body this way. It's not like the animal cares where it's gone, and I know our dogs like this sort of thing (though they haven't gotten one yet.)

Uh, I dunno . . . I'm not sure I'd want to feed either of my dogs anything made with bull dks.

[AmbrosiaWriter]

Oh! You mean bully sticks?

We give those to Ranger and Daisy all the time. They go bonkers for them, really love the stuff. So much that when we open the supply cabinet where the treats are kept, including the bully sticks, they rush over and stick, blocking me in.

To me it's really no different than giving them a pig's ear or one of those marrow bones.

*Cackle* My dad has a "mega-bully stick" in the cabinet. It's huge. I'm wondering what he's waiting for in order to give it to Ranger, but I think he just likes to take it out of the cabinet and make jokes about it.

Edit: Here's the MEGA BULLY STICK. I hope having my hand in the photo gives you an idea of the size of this thing.

[AccountingDrone]

Meh, they turn them into walking sticks/canes.

[Rapscallion]

Meh, they turn them into walking sticks/canes.

Apparently even the small ones.

Rapscallion

[TheSHAD0W]

I don't know why you guys are so squeamish about this. At least those parts aren't getting ground up into the hot-dog meat, like the lips and anuses are...

[fireheart]

I think I remember reading in my Year 9 Science Textbook that apparently whale penii are used as golf bags.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

I think I remember reading in my Year 9 Science Textbook that apparently whale penii are used as golf bags.

Apparently HS education has come a long way since the early/mid 80's.

I don't recall reading anything like that in my science textbooks.

But then you're talking to a woman who was educated by medical books, Playboy and x-rated videos.

[fireheart]

Apparently HS education has come a long way since the early/mid 80's.

I don't recall reading anything like that in my science textbooks.

But then you're talking to a woman who was educated by medical books, Playboy and x-rated videos.

Surprisingly my Year 9 textbook delved very little into HUMAN biology. It was more of a generalised textbook. (Most high schools do "general" science from Years 8-10, then it splits after that into Chemistry, Biology, Physics, "General" science (which looks at it from a more practical perspective ie if you're going to do mechanics, you might do a project based on how an engine works) and in some schools, basic Psychology) The human bio stuff was left for health.

Oh and a quick wiki search confirms that while modern golf bags are not always made out of whale penises, in the past, they were made out of it as well as elephant penis.

[AccountingDrone]

I think I remember reading in my Year 9 Science Textbook that apparently whale penii are used as golf bags.

Whale foreskins were made into 'raincoats' on whalers. Mentioned in Moby Dick.

"Look at the sailor, called the mincer, who now comes along, and assisted by two allies, heavily backs the grandissimus, as the mariners call it, and with bowed shoulders, staggers off with it as if he were a grenadier carrying a dead comrade from the field. extending it upon the forecastle deck, he now proceeds cylindrically to remove its dark pelt, as an African hunter the pelt of a boa. This done he turns the pelt inside out, like a pantaloon leg; gives it a good stretching, so as almost to double its diameter; and at last hangs it, well spread, in the rigging, to dry. Ere long, it is taken down; when removing some three feet of it, towards the pointed extremity, and then cutting two slits for arm-holes at the other end, he lengthwise slips himself bodily into it. The mincer now stands before you invested in the full canonicals of his calling....

"Arrayed in decent black; occupying a conspicuous pulpit; intent on bible leaves--what a candidate for an archbishoprick, what a lad for a Pope this mincer." (chapter 95)