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The annual Honen festival was held on Saturday in Komaki, near Nagoya, where people celebrate fertility and good harvest by carrying around a giant penis. Shinto priests played music while the crowd got drunk on all-you-can-drink sake and ate penis-shaped foods, like hot dogs.
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We would probably have an annual festival like this, in the U.S., if guns were banned.
Posted by: vagrant | March 18, 2008 at 08:32 PM
Horay FERTILITY!!!!! Yay!
Posted by: Dragonfang18 | March 21, 2008 at 11:27 PM