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    Image of SeaBassTian SeaBassTian
    08/18/09

    In reply to Gross Leftovers From the Fall of the House of Guccione
    Having passed a public auction of a kosher bakery yesterday, this "erotic" assortment comes as quite a jolt. But what else would you expect from the man responsible for the orgy scene from Caligula? His not-so-divine decadence was his business. Although the 10 titted marble statue caught me off-guard.
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    Image of Spirit Fingers Spirit Fingers
    08/18/09

    In reply to Gross Leftovers From the Fall of the House of Guccione

    And of course...
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    Edited by Spirit Fingers at 08/18/09 1:19 PM Spirit Fingers was starred Spirit Fingers was unstarred
    Image of Spirit Fingers Spirit Fingers
    08/18/09

    @Spirit Fingers: Damn! Where's my squirrel?!
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    08/18/09

    @Spirit Fingers: I don't know about you, but I have a feeling that the film-going public would pay $10 a ticket to see "Damn! Where's My Squirrel?!"
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    Image of Swifter Swifter
    08/18/09

    In reply to Gross Leftovers From the Fall of the House of Guccione
    The Pillars of NonSociety.
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    Image of Imogen Quest Imogen Quest
    08/18/09

    In reply to Gross Leftovers From the Fall of the House of Guccione
    I wouldn't blame anyone for not believing me, because I don't really believe it myself, but my elementary school's chorus sang at a Christmas party at his townhouse in like 1989. My only real memory of it is a reflecting pool with a harpist in a corner. Seriously. I think our principal was a friend of his or something, but honestly? What were our parents thinking?
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    08/18/09

    @Imogen Quest: That the only thing your public school education was preparing you for was a career in pornography.
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    Image of Paul.B.Dodd Paul.B.Dodd
    08/18/09

    @Imogen Quest: There probably is a psychosomatic reason as to why you don't recollect your visit to the Guccione's pad other than a reflecting pool. Unless you're ready to go through therapy, I think it's best we leave it alone.
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    Image of The Lone Scout The Lone Scout
    08/18/09

    @Paul.B.Dodd: Paticularly if the reflecting pool in IQ's hazy recollection turned out to be something less commodious.
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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    08/19/09

    @Imogen Quest: That is so seriously awesome.
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    Image of Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate
    08/18/09

    In reply to Gross Leftovers From the Fall of the House of Guccione
    What a boob.
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    Image of bytememehard bytememehard
    08/18/09

    @Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate: I don't see what all the commodetions about.
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    Image of City_Dater City_Dater
    08/18/09

    In reply to Gross Leftovers From the Fall of the House of Guccione
    Whoever bought the toilets is "totally removing the seats and sticking them down the end of the driveway, full of yellow mums -- gawgeous!"
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    Image of chiquitabanana chiquitabanana
    08/18/09

    In reply to Gross Leftovers From the Fall of the House of Guccione
    that would be an odd statue of liberty version of the Ephesus Artemis - one of the originals is in the Vatican museum... the auction house didn't know that? Goddess of fornication and all that?
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    Image of Our Lady of the Massacre Our Lady of the Massacre
    08/18/09

    @chiquitabanana: Actually, there's some disagreement about the Lady of Ephesus' "breasts" Early Christians interpreted the round objects as breasts (really, are you surprised?). But in fact, they may have been symbolic of objects sacrificed/offered to the statue, namely, amber adornments or (hope nobody's eating) bull testicles.
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    Image of Forgetitjake Forgetitjake
    08/18/09

    @chiquitabanana:
    Better watch your back, talking fornication about the chaste huntress. She has no use for sex and no sense of humor.
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    Image of Forgetitjake Forgetitjake
    08/18/09

    @Our Lady of the Massacre:
    But one powerful argument in favor of the traditional reading is that it's tits, tits, tits.
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    Image of allium allium
    08/18/09

    @Our Lady of the Massacre: And when they saw these items, they were full of squick, and cried out, saying, "Disturbing is Diana of the Ephesians!" And they went forth instead to Sotheby's, to find maybe some nice Shaker chairs.

    -- Furnishings 19:12-13
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    raincoaster promoted this comment Edited by allium at 08/18/09 3:39 PM allium was starred allium was unstarred
    Image of valet_of_the_dolls valet_of_the_dolls
    08/18/09

    In reply to Gross Leftovers From the Fall of the House of Guccione
    He was so proud of 'Caligula' that he wanted to live on the set permanently.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    08/18/09

    In reply to Gross Leftovers From the Fall of the House of Guccione
    I was inside that "mansion" once. It was like everywhere you looked, there was something so wrong it was back around to right, but when you really looked close at it--the shabby craftsmanship, the just-"off"ness--it kept going and yep, it swung right back to wrong again. That toilet is a good example. It would have worked without the horrid seat cover, would have been kind of authentic and "olden," but its hopelessly bourgeois owner just had to cover up the filth of Ancient Rome, didn't he?
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    Edited by BookishLookish at 08/18/09 11:49 AM BookishLookish was starred BookishLookish was unstarred
    Image of snugbug snugbug
    08/18/09

    @BookishLookish: If Gucc's manse didn't have a vomitorium, the Ancient Roms out-perverted him.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    08/18/09

    @snugbug: Nope, not that I recall.

    The whole time I was there, I was saying under my breath, "Oh my God, look at that! Oh, look at THAT!" with my pal/date. We went to an all-night diner afterward and we were like two little kids with ADHD after three screenings of Fantasia, sitting there and stuttering: "Did you..I can't believe...wow, that was bad....What about the...." for an hour.
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    Image of snugbug snugbug
    08/18/09


    @BookishLookish: Ha! As a treat for this nice story, here's a pic--just for you, so everyone else don't look!--of a toilet at Ted Danson's & Mary Steenburgen's house. Quite classy, no?
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    08/18/09

    @snugbug: Nothing spells class like wainscoting and wallpaper! What is in that little green box, I wonder...
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    Image of MissVero MissVero
    08/18/09

    @snugbug: A book of coffee table book of celebrity toilets! it's the next logical step.

    OK - I once rented an apartment in LA that was previously rented by Jon Voight. Every damn time I used the facilities I pictured him sitting there. Every damn time.
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    Image of Spirit Fingers Spirit Fingers
    08/18/09

    In reply to Gross Leftovers From the Fall of the House of Guccione
    Wait, am I in Brooklyn?! I swear I just passed this place where they sold everything up there in white lacquer.
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    Image of rudi_freude rudi_freude
    08/18/09

    In reply to Gross Leftovers From the Fall of the House of Guccione
    Those busts look suspiciously like something Lady Liberty posed for before she became famous.
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    Image of TubOfTaft TubOfTaft
    08/18/09

    In reply to Gross Leftovers From the Fall of the House of Guccione
    I believe the busts are a replica of Bob Jr.’s former girlfriend, Ann Coulter.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    08/18/09

    In reply to Gross Leftovers From the Fall of the House of Guccione
    Oh come on! Bitch all you want but at the end of the day, you know you want a toilet JUST LIKE THAT ONE.

    On a related note: if you're looking for hijinks, go to the plumbing section of Home Depot and poop in the toilets. Always funny.
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    Image of gonzosmom gonzosmom
    08/18/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: I'll bet anything that the poop was also decorative. And cheap looking.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    08/18/09

    @gonzosmom: You forget that Guccione classed up the joint with MARBLE COLUMNS
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    Image of Perhaps Not Perhaps Not
    08/18/09

    In reply to Gross Leftovers From the Fall of the House of Guccione
    I feel like I'm getting chlamydia just by looking at these.
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    Image of resipsaloquacious resipsaloquacious
    08/18/09

    In reply to Gross Leftovers From the Fall of the House of Guccione
    I believe that toilet was a prop in Caligula. Where else are you going to get a piece of history where Malcolm McDowell and Peter O'Toole crossed streams after an all night bender?
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    Image of valet_of_the_dolls valet_of_the_dolls
    08/18/09

    @resipsaloquacious: Damn it. I knew I should have scrolled down...
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    08/18/09

    @resipsaloquacious: Hah, I totally see it.

    Sigh. Res, you would've been a great sideshow talker.
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