Not the new Harry Potter title: Silvio Berlusconi and the immortal dick
It is well-known that Italy’s Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, is a bit of a dick…
… and that he has made a prick of himself on more than one occasion is also not exactly a state secret.
Which makes the following bit of news so satisfying. It’s not often that you can use the words ‘Berlusconi’ and ‘serendipitous’ in one sentence but, this time, that would be quite appropriate, as the following story makes clear:
“Silvio Berlusconi’s enthusiasm for cosmetic surgery is well documented, but it was not previously known to extend to either genitalia or classical sculpture. Government officials confirmed today, however, that a valuable statue of the god Mars, on loan to the prime minister’s office, had been fitted with an artificial penis. The original was chipped off at some stage in its long life, beginning in AD175.”
Which would have been a fair excuse for any statue, divine or otherwise, to carry a serious chip on its shoulders…
… though I’m not sure that the immortal God of War will be much pleased that He was given this rather limp looking, artificial penis simply in order to make some real, septuagenarian prick look more virile.
(Nuff said, really…)
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