# No shrinkage for this bad boy!

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-shrinkage-for-this-bad-boy/158506
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [March 2, 2003, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-shrinkage-for-this-bad-boy/158506 "2003-03-02T02:43:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2003, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-shrinkage-for-this-bad-boy/158506/1 "2003-03-02T02:43:17Z")

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[From Salon](http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2003/02/28/ice/index_np.html)

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> For a few hours at Harvard this month, the dominance of the white male phallus was not just a concept. At around 10 p.m. on Feb. 11, a dozen rowers on the university crew team completed work on a 9-foot-6-inch tall penis made of snow, complete with — according to a Feb. 19 article in the Crimson – “life-like veins, a urethral bulge, and a sizeable scrotum.” Rising into the hallowed air of Harvard Yard, the Snow Manhood attracted scores of supportive onlookers and, you might say, onlickers – not to mention inquiries about the identity of the sculpture’s model.
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> But it turns out they had trouble keeping it up. Later that night, offended undergrad roommates Amy Keel, 20, and Mary Clare Cardinale, 22, used cardboard tubes and shovels to knock the makeshift monument down.

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### Author: ![Rhum\_Runner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rhum\_Runner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhum_Runner)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2003, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-shrinkage-for-this-bad-boy/158506/2 "2003-03-02T02:53:04Z")

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Also being talked about [here.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=166283)

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### Author: ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2003, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-shrinkage-for-this-bad-boy/158506/3 "2003-03-02T02:55:22Z")

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> [@](#):
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> But it turns out they had trouble keeping it up. Later that night, offended undergrad roommates Amy Keel, 20, and Mary Clare Cardinale, 22, used cardboard tubes and shovels to knock the makeshift monument down.

[Freud]  
Envious, are we?  
[/F]

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### Author: ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2003, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-shrinkage-for-this-bad-boy/158506/4 "2003-03-02T07:46:13Z")

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I would be annoyed, were I the men, and would work hard to make another one, this one with an icy coating making it more difficult to remove.