[Aroid-l] Aroids in Art

From: botanist at malesiana.com (Peter Boyce) on 2007.11.26 at 05:27:06(16731) Hi Hermine.... Hot sauce means cili padi and cili api here in Malaysia; none hotter lah! ----- Original Message ----- +More From: "hermine" To: "Discussion of aroids" Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 11:47 AM Subject: Re: [Aroid-l] Aroids in Art > At 02:51 PM 11/25/2007, you wrote: >>Hi Hermine... not all... BUT Arum maculatum is in European folklore very >>much associated with human (and other mammalian) sexuality; most of the >>common names (Lords & Ladies, Cuckoo Pint, Dog's Dibble, Wake Robin, and >>so >>forth) are laced with sexual innuendo. > > as a wee tot, i thought this stuff, those pictures, were really like, > in the FORBIDDEN category, but my parents never noticed. So much > embedded passion in art, poetry. I liked that, rather than adverts > for blue tablets and the description of what they do and what are the > bad side effects. Innuendo leaves room for your personal imagination > to fill in the blanks with HOT SAUCE. > > hermine > > _______________________________________________ > Aroid-L mailing list > Aroid-L at www.gizmoworks.com > http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l >

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