Hooray! Thanks. The 'erotic angle' is explained here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,399318,00.html
Quote Nicholas De Jongh's Politics, Prudery and Perversions (Methuen) catalogues the astonishing innuendo- hunting of the lord chamberlain's office, culminating in the warning with regard to Lionel Bart's musical Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be that "the builder's labourer is not to carry the plank of wood in the erotic place and at the erotic angle that he does." Unquote Although I first heard the story many years ago. The Lord Chamberlain was the censor in England until the 1960s. -- Cheers, Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: David Savage [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 06 November 2005 23:12 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: More madness > > Don't know it this is erotic, but here you go. "Surfer Dave": > > <http://www.arach.net.au/~savage/Misc/DwB.jpg> > > Dave > > On 11/7/05, Bob W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was hoping you'd put a surfboard in his right hand, at the erotic > > angle <g>. I'd do it, but I don't know how. > > > > -- > > Cheers, > > Bob > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > Wrom: SKVFVWRKJVZCMHVIBGDADRZFSQHYUCDDJBLVLMHAALPTCXLYR > > > Sent: 06 November 2005 16:49 > > > To: [email protected] > > > Subject: RE: More madness > > > > > > Probably because it's easier to post pix on the net and to > > > disseminate them, although drawings and sketches in various forms > > > would also be easy to scan and post. > > > > > > I suppose if you made a sculpture like that on a beach or in many > > > other public places, some irate, up-tight do-gooder would > complain. > > > > > > http://home.earthlink.net/~shel-pix/frontdet-mod.jpg > > > > > > Shel > > > "You meet the nicest people with a Pentax" > > > > > > > > > > [Original Message] > > > > Wrom: WTQTI > > > > > > > Is it ok to make non-photographic records of the kiddies > > > surfing? Could I > > > > make a sculpture, perhaps like this one of a 17-year old > > > boy, but with > > > added > > > > surfboard: > > > > http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/micheldavid/frontdet.jpg > > > > > > > > If so, I wonder why photographs are singled out for opprobrium. > > > > > > > > Bob > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
