Yes, apparently, it ensued. Anyway, according to this article, Rep. Don Young once brandished a walrus penis on the floor of the House of Representatives. The article gives no context for this, and sadly, no link to a youtube video of said penis brandishing. I, of course, am more than a bit curious as to why someone would feel the need to brandish a walrus penis anywhere, much less in Congress. Anyone know what the backstory to this is? (And did C-SPAN cover it?)
I don’t know the story, but it was probably just the baculum, or penis bone. To brandish the actual penis he’d have to get it fresh (preferably tearing it personally off the walrus) and fly it down quickly enough to avoid decomposition… - OK, the second part’s not really true. But I bet it was a baculum.
Walruses are amon the mammals that have a penis bone - I think they’re made into walking sticks and other useful items.
Seems to be correct. Story of Feb. 1994 incident (and reference to another occurrence of Young waving baculum) here. With picture of baculum.
It’s called an oosik, and looks like this.
There are so many pricks in Congress, is a wonder to me that anybody noticed. 
Anyone slightly disturbed that ‘Eat All’ replies to a thread about a walrus penis?
That’s the best bit!
Judging by the size of that bone, we really ought to be saying “hung like a walrus.”
Is that an oosik in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?
Don Young: “Environmentalists are a self-centered bunch of waffle-stomping, Harvard-graduating, intellectual idiots.”
What the fuck is “waffle stomping” supposed to mean?"
When I was a kid in San Diego in the early-'70s lug-soled boots were extremely popular. the lug soles resembled a waffle iron, and one stomps around in boots. Hence, ‘waffle-stompers’.
That is a pretty obscure fashion reference for a conservative politician in Alaska to be making.
Rocky Mountain High was released in… what? 1973? And I remember the ‘ecology’ flags and the ‘Earth Movement’. (My sister, who is eight years older than I, was a hippy.) Fads included home winemaking kits, bottle and glass cutting kits, cute moulds for making mushroom candles, and ‘getting back to Nature’. A lot of people wore plaid shirts, blue jeans and ‘waffle stompers’. Don Young would have been about 40. Perhaps too old to be part of the ‘movement’. But coming from Alaska he surely was around people who wore ‘waffle stompers’ every day. Maybe, since the would be practical up there, he wore them himself. It seems likely to me that someone of his age would use a term that no one uses anymore for footwear he was exposed to decades ago. Sort of like my dad called jeans ‘dungarees’. If I had been born five years later, I doubt I’d know what ‘waffle stompers’ were.
Oosic is a pretty popular handle material among custom knife makers.
If you are from Alaska, you know what waffle-stompers are. It’s common usage, or it was when I resided there.
[OT / hijack] I like your choice of reading material. Flying Dutch is one of my favourite books. [/OT / hijack]
Well if one is a male walrus and there are horny female walruses nearby…
" ‘The time has come,’ the Walrus said,
‘To talk of many things:
Of shoes—and ships—and sealing wax—
Of cabbages—and kings—
And why the sea is boiling hot—
And whether pigs have wings.’ "
Sounds like a typical day in Congress to me.
I have a strong desire to google the phrase “horny female walruses”…
…immediately replaced by a stong desire NOT to Google said phrase.
Probably end up with “AdultWalrusFinderDotCom”, “Find Horny Female Walruses in Your Area!”