Comments on: https://webbish6.com/2268/ Jeannine Hall Gailey's Poetry Blog Thu, 29 Jun 2006 20:58:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: jeannine https://webbish6.com/2268/#comment-542 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 20:58:00 +0000 http://webbish6.com/2268/#comment-542 It turns out that the raccoon dog, yes, also called tanuki, actually do have very large testicles, but there are no documented actual cases of using them as parachurtes, though many artifacts of art in Japan show them using them as a giant drum.
Fascinating stuff!

]]> By: michi https://webbish6.com/2268/#comment-541 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 20:23:00 +0000 http://webbish6.com/2268/#comment-541 i read that book by tom robbins too, villa incognito. they’re called tanuki, aren’t they?
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]]> By: Steven D. Schroeder https://webbish6.com/2268/#comment-540 Wed, 28 Jun 2006 20:14:00 +0000 http://webbish6.com/2268/#comment-540 Now I must write a poem called “Animal Testicle Mineral”

]]> By: Radish King https://webbish6.com/2268/#comment-539 Wed, 28 Jun 2006 19:13:00 +0000 http://webbish6.com/2268/#comment-539 Also the film “Pom Poko” was not released in the theaters in America because the cute cuddly racoon-like creatures starring in the animated film have an important magic power that involves swelling their testicles to use as parachutes and weaponry

Oddly enough, (or not) this theme was also used by Tom Robbins in a fairly recent novel.

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