Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/06/21/a-cabinet-of-noses.html
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'Ear ye, 'ear ye!
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Noses run in my Family.
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Oh good. I was hoping for a cabinet of noses.
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Hope they labeled them, otherwise who nose?
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And they’re really starting to smell.
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There’ll be another two along in a moment, then.
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I think I see Jimmy Durante and Tiny Tim’s noses in that collection.
Are those all of the non-original sculpted noses that were available, or did they just pick a few to display?
Who nose?
Statues with missing noses… a continuing problem with few good solutions.
Could be because of…
Or a disturbing new virus.
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They’re actually a kind of shield insect that has evolved to look like noses as protective camouflage.
It’s not a feature, it’s a bug.
I am reminded of this scene from Roxanne (1987):
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John Cleese reacts to noses in “The Magic Christian”
This is the moment I first remember seeing John Cleese and he immediately struck me as someone “to keep an eye open for a good ear.” (However, I had probably seen him before on Broadway as part of the cast of “Half a Sixpence.”)
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Legend has it that somewhere in the Vatican there’s a big box full of penises from the statues that various Popes ordered censored with fig leaves.
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