# "world's oldest penis" **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 5, 2003, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-oldest-penis/217169 "2003-12-05T16:23:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Belrix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed655f/32.png) [@Belrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Belrix)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2003, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-oldest-penis/217169/1 "2003-12-05T16:23:18Z")
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**Author:** ![Yumanite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/b487fb/32.png) [@Yumanite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yumanite)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2003, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-oldest-penis/217169/2 "2003-12-05T18:12:10Z")
Heh. I was thinking along the lines of ‘the petrified prick of a Persian prince’. ---
**Author:** ![misstee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/958977/32.png) [@misstee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/misstee)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2003, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-oldest-penis/217169/3 "2003-12-05T18:47:57Z")
feh, didn’t do a thing for me. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2003, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-oldest-penis/217169/4 "2003-12-05T18:56:23Z")
. . .\* and it was discovered inside Catherine Zeta-Jones!\* ---
**Author:** ![Emperor\_Penguin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c2a13f/32.png) [@Emperor\_Penguin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emperor_Penguin)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2003, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-oldest-penis/217169/5 "2003-12-05T19:25:54Z")
> [@](#): > > _Colymbosathon ecplecticos, which means “swimmer with a large penis.”_ And that’s in cold water too… ---
**Author:** ![SiXSwordS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@SiXSwordS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SiXSwordS)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2003, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-oldest-penis/217169/6 "2003-12-05T19:37:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \_“I could only dream about finding something like this. It’s like Christmas every day,” said Science author David Siveter, a professor of paleontology This is why I didn’t go into the sciences. ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2003, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-oldest-penis/217169/7 "2003-12-05T19:44:23Z")
> [@](#): > > “It has the world’s oldest penis. If there is another one, I don’t know it,” said David Siveter, who has never personally met Ronald Reagan. > [@](#): > > The newly discovered ostracode fossil is remarkably similar to some modern ostracodes. These similarities suggest an extremely low rate of evolutionary change over the last 425 million years. So much apathy. They don’t even _want_ to change. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2003, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-oldest-penis/217169/8 "2003-12-05T19:52:57Z")
10 to 1 it’s gonna dribble. ---
**Author:** ![Emperor\_Penguin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c2a13f/32.png) [@Emperor\_Penguin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emperor_Penguin)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2003, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-oldest-penis/217169/9 "2003-12-05T19:59:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SiXSwordS \* > \*\*This is why I didn’t go into the sciences. \*\* Heck, that’s why I did! ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2003, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-oldest-penis/217169/10 "2003-12-05T20:06:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by photopat \* > \*\*said David Siveter, who has never personally met Ronald Reagan. \*\* Big difference between oldest penis and oldest dick. ---
**Author:** ![rubes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@rubes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rubes)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2003, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-oldest-penis/217169/11 "2003-12-05T20:22:29Z")
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**Author:** ![SiXSwordS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@SiXSwordS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SiXSwordS)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2003, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-oldest-penis/217169/12 "2003-12-05T20:48:18Z")
> [@](#): > > - originally posted by **Emperor Penguin** \* Heck, that’s why I did! So you could be thrilled about finding a fossillized penis? To each their own… ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2003, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-oldest-penis/217169/13 "2003-12-05T21:25:09Z")
Holy mother of pearl, that ostracod is hung like a belemnite.