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Zorro

(15,724 posts)
Sat Feb 24, 2018, 02:58 AM Feb 2018

New Evidence Suggests President George Washington Sent Woodcut Of Penis To Secretary

PHILADELPHIA—Saying the discovery shed new light on the father of our country, a team of University of Pennsylvania archivists announced Monday that new evidence suggests George Washington sent a woodcut of his penis to his secretary.

“After uncovering a well-preserved, remarkably graphic woodcut dating from the American revolutionary period, and establishing the provenance of both the woodcut and the image from such contemporaneous descriptions as exist, we believe we have conclusive proof that this image is indeed of President Washington’s erect penis and was in fact sent to Tobiana Lear, Washington’s personal secretary,” lead researcher Joyce Carrick said of the block print, which was discovered in the National Archives late last year tucked into a secretary’s desk drawer along with a note outlining her presence in the first president’s lewd sexual fantasies.

“We suspect this was not the only woodcut, as many other printing blocks depicting what we now know to be Washington’s penis carved at different angles and shadings have also been found. It even appears that after the original woodcut was not met with a response, several oil portraits of his genitals were couriered to the secretary’s home.”

Carrick’s team also discovered the official complaint that Tobiana Lear submitted to Congress concerning the suggestive woodcut, as well as the corresponding Presidential order immediately terminating Lear from her position and deporting her to England.

https://www.theonion.com/new-evidence-suggests-president-george-washington-sent-1823275416

Gotta love The Onion.

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New Evidence Suggests President George Washington Sent Woodcut Of Penis To Secretary (Original Post) Zorro Feb 2018 OP
probably carved dweller Feb 2018 #1
Since all secretaries in that era were male, this raises many questions. Shrike47 Feb 2018 #2
18th century equivalent of a dick pic Major Nikon Feb 2018 #3
Men in power, throughout the centuries... Amsterdammer Feb 2018 #4
Do we really need this? I don't want to know about it. brush Feb 2018 #5
You got me Kilgore Feb 2018 #6

Amsterdammer

(130 posts)
4. Men in power, throughout the centuries...
Sat Feb 24, 2018, 05:58 AM
Feb 2018

...seeking the next unfortunate, unwilling soul to subjugate.


..."we believe we have conclusive proof that this image is indeed of President Washington’s erect penis and was in fact sent to Tobiana Lear, Washington’s personal secretary"...


Would he have made a woodie of his woodie? Oh my!

Kilgore

(1,733 posts)
6. You got me
Sat Feb 24, 2018, 07:08 AM
Feb 2018

Read the whole post with growing amazement until I reached the end and saw The Onion link.

You could hear the dope slap across the house!!!!!!!

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