• LuckyDevil@piefed.social
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    2 days ago

    Interesting. Do you know why people collect them? Is it like a rabbits foot? Are there lucky raccoon penises out there?

    • AWistfulNihilist@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      They’re just kinda cool! It’s a Marge Simpson thing. You find them at oddity and reptile shows used as part of crafts all the time.

      I saw this watching moonshiners on the history channel, so take it with a grain of salt, but the moonshiners were obsessed with them. Since they bend down at the end, you stick the bone into the spigot where the liquid comes out of the worm bucket (where the alcohol vapor condenses into liquid). It directs the flow into a jar. You can also use a stick, but these dudes were always just carrying raccoon dick bones that I’m sure they harvested themselves.

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        The same history channel that paid a guy to say that aliens built the pyramids?

        Right, credible source. /s

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          22 hours ago

          100%, this the right way to treat a history channel reference. Fact checking is a requirement and trust should be withheld by default.

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        dudes were always just carrying raccoon dick bones that I’m sure they harvested themselves.

        That’s enough Lemmy for tonight. Time for bed