# Questions re Slug's illustration for the 'bruised ovaries" column

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**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [August 9, 2002, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-re-slugs-illustration-for-the-bruised-ovaries-column/123201 "2002-08-09T21:09:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![whitetho](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whitetho/32/1059_2.png) [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2002, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-re-slugs-illustration-for-the-bruised-ovaries-column/123201/1 "2002-08-09T21:09:07Z")

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This is always a dangerous undertaking, but I have a couple of questions about Slug’s drawing for the [“bruised ovaries”](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/020809.html) column, and I wondered if people who get the column in the newspaper might have a clearer image for small details than we have available online.

1. The big “lizard guy” has some letters/words on his tatooed arm. Can anyone read these?

2. The turkey-fied Cecil seems to be holding something and gesturing. Any idea what he is demonstrating?

Thanks in advance for your help.

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**Author:** ![Nametag](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nametag/32/406_2.png) [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2002, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-re-slugs-illustration-for-the-bruised-ovaries-column/123201/2 "2002-08-10T01:17:58Z")

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1. It says "Born to Raze Hell (with some letters backwards; I guess aliens with prehensile tentapenacles can’t spell too good).

2. I believe he’s just waving his finger in the air (perhaps giving the “tour of the female reproductive system” he describes in the article); you can see a “whoosh” under his arm, and a wavy line traced from a starting point at the bottom to his crooked finger at the top.