Hindu pilgrims who hugged a sacred phallic ice form in Indian Kashmir may have caused it to melt, experts say.
Hundreds of thousands of devotees make the gruelling trek to the Himalayan Kashmir mountains each year to gaze at the ice formation, which occurs annually and is worshipped as a symbol of Shiva, the god of destruction.
But by the second day of the two-month pilgrimage, devotees only had a tiny stump of ice to look at compared to the towering form a few weeks earlier.
Television footage aired showed pilgrims and security force members hugging the stalagmite, posing with it for photos and scraping it to get “holy water.”
Of course, they could always spray a little artificial snow on one of the concrete traffic bollards from Keizer, Oregon – and worship that.
Tee hee.
Those experts must represent a pretty amazing brain trust. Has James Hill been consulted? I don’t believe nothin’ till he confirms it.
Our giant concrete weenie barrier seems to be outperforming the giant pink willie-sicle of the Kashmir. It’s good to see America getting competitive again internationally.
The only way to improve those Oregonian bollards would be to paint ’em pink. Or the “knob” part at least.
Funnier than that, though, will occur when public outcry causes them to be battered to rubble with jackhammers. Gotta have video of that.
:^D
I, for one, want to bid ‘aloha’ to our would-be frozen phallic overlord.
Maybe someone should tell those obsessives in Oregon that those barriers they find so offensive will disappear if they just hug ’em…
Yes! stroking it with your warm palm will make it melt away.
What a bunch of idiots…worshiping a chunk of ice! Serves ’em right that they melted it.
I wonder of the pilgrims tasted the water from the ice monument and found it tasted a bit salty, a bit bitter, a bit sweeter and it had a noticeable chlorine like scent.
Somebody’s gotta do it, so I guess it’s my turn…
Angel, you horny bastard! 🙂
#7, Hop, I worshiped the ice in my one Crown and water tonight — darned junk melted and son of a brisket, it never even talked back. Cheap a** crystalline H2O. Guess I’ll have to pray again Saturday…..
Free ice to anyone who actually understands this:
http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/ferroice.htm
Well, maybe it was Ice-XI. Who knows?
#9
I was talking about it being a hoax made out of cheap bottled water, what were you thinking I was talking about? o: )