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Man ordered to cover gargoyle statue's genitals
upi ^ | June 6, 2013

Posted on 06/06/2013 12:57:55 PM PDT by JoeProBono

PAULDEN, Ariz.,- An Arizona artist said county officials have ordered him to cover up or remove a metal statue of a gargoyle he created that features male genitalia.

David Smith said he spent years creating the 9-foot-tall metal statue he is displaying in his Paulden yard and he disagrees with Yavapai County Development Services Director Steve Mauk's statements that the artwork isn't compatible with the neighborhood, KTVK-TV, Phoenix, reported Thursday.

"What in this neighborhood fits in anywhere? You look around and everybody's individual and you can't swing a dead cat without hitting art work," Smith said.

He said the gargoyle's genitals were a necessary part of its creation.

"I built it a certain way and I like it like that," Smith said. "Everything has a sex so why would I do it any other way? I don't like Ken dolls or GI Joes. I think they're kind of silly."

Smith said officials have ordered him to remove the gargoyle or cover up the offending parts of its anatomy.

Smith said he will argue his case before the County Board of Supervisors in July.


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KEYWORDS: gargoyle; genitals; napl; statue
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1 posted on 06/06/2013 12:57:55 PM PDT by JoeProBono
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Nuh-uh; not gonna do it. Nope.


2 posted on 06/06/2013 1:00:38 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (Guns kill people, pencils misspell words, cars drive drunk & spoons make you fat.)
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3 posted on 06/06/2013 1:00:47 PM PDT by JRios1968 (I'm guttery and trashy, with a hint of lemon. - Laz)
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To: JoeProBono

If that was in my neighbourhood, I’d just chuckle at it. It wouldn’t offend me. I think it’s more puerile than obscene.


4 posted on 06/06/2013 1:01:14 PM PDT by Kriggerel ("All great truths are hard and bitter, but lies... are sweeter than wild honey" (Ragnar Redbeard))
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To: JoeProBono

He should cover the whole thing. That’s just plain cartoonish.


6 posted on 06/06/2013 1:01:28 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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No worse than this michaelangelo david photo: David michaelangelo.jpg
7 posted on 06/06/2013 1:03:19 PM PDT by Morgana (Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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Jeepers, just let him install it. The high school kids in the neighborhood will take care of the rest.


8 posted on 06/06/2013 1:03:21 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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MOTHMAN


9 posted on 06/06/2013 1:13:26 PM PDT by JoeProBono (Mille vocibus imago valet;-{)
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To: JoeProBono

Not obscene but hideous. To each his own I guess...just glad I don’t live across the street from that.


10 posted on 06/06/2013 1:14:06 PM PDT by pgkdan (Some taglines never go away....)
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A good compromise would be for him to build a female gargoyle with a hoo-hoo and major league yaboos. Then either everyone would be happy or everyone would be P!$$ED. either way I would want to see pictures.
11 posted on 06/06/2013 1:15:54 PM PDT by verga (A nation divided by Zero!)
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My grandmother’s cousin had a small reproduction of Venus di Milo in her home. She had a velvet (red) scarf wrapped around her breasts. What we thought was especially amusing was that this cousin was totally blind.


12 posted on 06/06/2013 1:16:05 PM PDT by Mercat
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kangaroo photo: kangaroo kangaroo.jpg `Mate, there's sexy and there's diabolical. I'm sexy, that's diabolical.'
13 posted on 06/06/2013 1:17:13 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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If that’s a picture of his ‘hood we’re looking at — a bunch of shoebox houses and metal-building barndos scattered willy-nilly in the middle of the featureless desert — who cares what statuary he puts up?


14 posted on 06/06/2013 1:18:10 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (S)
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In many of the European museums, especially in Italy, you will see a small hole where the peen should be. The sculptors typically created a removable peen, particularly on wine gods and satyr statuary, but not always. If it was a slow day at the Museum of Naples, for instance, and the guard wanted to amuse tourists, he might “install” the missing (erect) johnson via its little cylindrical tab into the peen socket.


15 posted on 06/06/2013 1:20:49 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("There can be no dialogue with the prince of this world." -- Francis)
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Yawn. No different from the demon in the movie THE EXORCIST, except that demon had four wings.


16 posted on 06/06/2013 1:21:29 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Sometimes you need 7+ more ammo. LOTS MORE.)
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17 posted on 06/06/2013 1:22:30 PM PDT by JoeProBono (Mille vocibus imago valet;-{)
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>> a hoo-hoo and major league yaboos.

Just for my amusement... what term would *you* use for the gargoyle’s whatchamathingie and sackfullastuff? :-)


18 posted on 06/06/2013 1:22:42 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (S)
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To: JoeProBono

You should see some of the stuff found in Pompeii. Then there is those Hindu temples..


19 posted on 06/06/2013 1:23:49 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Sometimes you need 7+ more ammo. LOTS MORE.)
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No problem.

Just have it b*ggering another male gargoyle, and he’s home free. May even get a subsidy for materials.


20 posted on 06/06/2013 1:24:30 PM PDT by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (Obama equals Osama))
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