Blinkin Robin, you lost your arms in battle, but you grew some nice boobs (Blinkin gropes the Venus De Milo statue left behind after creditors take away Loxley Castle)
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- A character comments on a statue's anatomy after it loses its arms.
- In plain terms
- Someone jokes about a statue having nice breasts.
- What can you take from it?
- Innuendo appears in jokes about art.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How do you react to such jokes?
- What makes art funny?
Another view
It reduces art to physical attributes for a laugh.
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