Nothing could be more relevant than this: a photographer from the Newfoundland town of Dildo has captured images of a penis-shaped iceberg off the Canadian coast.
The suggestive ‘berg consists of a column with a domed head protruding from two oval ice rafts. Photographer Ken Pretty captured a photo of the ice formation by drone near the town of Harbor Grace, which sits along – puns keep adding up – Conception Bay.
Unsurprisingly, the “dickie berg”, as locals call it, has garnered international attention, with Pretty sharing news from as far away as Thailand and Taiwan on her Facebook page.
“I knew I would get a lot of comments, but I didn’t expect so many,” Pretty told the news agency. wire of salt (opens in a new tab) on Friday (April 28).
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Alas, the iceberg lacked stamina: Pretty photographed the 30-foot (9.1-meter) phallic structure on Thursday, April 27. She collapsed the next day.
According to Radio Canada (opens in a new tab)it’s a heavy iceberg season in Newfoundland and Labrador, with more than 200 off the coasts of both provinces.
“The onshore winds brought both sea ice and icebergs,” Diane Davis, who runs a Facebook group for iceberg hunters, told CBC. “If the trend continues, we should see them in May and June as well. Mother Nature only gave us a handful last year.”
Mother Nature has provided more than a handful of phallic shapes for laughs. In 2021, a man went viral for his photographs of a penis-shaped rock tower in Arches National Park (opens in a new tab). Cambodian authorities had to beg people to stop picking the carnivorous plant Nepenthes bokorensiswhat exactly happens to look like a penis. And don’t even ask about California’s penisfish plague, which washed up on Drakes Beach in 2019. (They were actually sea worms, which have a long and rich history of phallic appearance.)