Buddhist monk cuts off penis and renounces refix

Yahoo ^ | 11/24/06

[Mr. Brightside]

Buddhist monk cuts off penis and renounces refix

Wed Nov 22, 6:23 AM ET

BANGKOK (Reuters) - A Thai Buddhist monk cut off his penis with a machete because he had an erection during meditation and declined to have it reattached, saying he had renounced all earthly cares, a doctor and a newspaper said on Wednesday.

The 35-year-old monk, whose name was withheld for privacy reasons, allowed medical staff at Maharaj hospital, 780 km (480 miles) south of Bangkok to dress his wound, but refused reattachment, hospital chief Prawing Euanontouch said.

"We cleaned up the wound, gave him some stitches, but he declined to have it reattached because he said had abandoned everything," Prawing told Reuters by telephone.

Prawing declined to comment on the monk's erection, which Bangkok-based Kom Chad Luk tabloid reported on its Web site.

[mkmensinger]

Perhaps it was just minor surgery. :^)

[Mr. Brightside]

That's the long and the short of it.

[Charles Henrickson]

And the winner of today's Weird Person in the News award . . .

{opens envelope}

IT'S A THAI!

[Charles Henrickson]

BANGKOK

Literally!

[beyond the sea]

BANGKOK ........ A Thai Buddhist monk cut off his penis with a machete -----

****

Bangkok ....... says it all.

[mkmensinger]

This could be today's longest thread..no, wait...

[Mr. Brightside]

had an erection during meditation

Meditating on what?

[cripplecreek]

Tis but a mere pimple.

[Mr. Brightside]

BANGKOK

Literally!

Or CHOPKOK.

[OwenKellogg]

Bangkok, not Phuket.

[beyond the sea]

one muinute earlier....... damn, I swear I didn't see it.

;-)

[beyond the sea]

http://img301.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mariaphotoshoot13jr7cl.jpg

[1rudeboy]

So what's the bright side, Mr.?

[Mr. Brightside]

[proud American in Canada]

Meditating on what?

LOLOL! That's what I was wondering about. :)

[pikachu]

I'm sure the staff of the Junior Senator from the State of New York were asked by their boss to fax a copy of this to her signifigant other at their domicile in New York with a note that said 'I thought you might want to make note of this clipping'.

[proud American in Canada]

Okay... just a question. Maybe this is a bit too... bold? But...

*ahem* I'm no medical expert... So pardon me if this is a stupid question.

But, shouldn't he cut off, well, all the rest? :) Otherwise, he might still have the urge but no way to satisfy it??

I'm a woman and high school biology was a long time ago, so..?

[sirchtruth]

...saying he had renounced all earthly cares,...

I think ole little Buddah forgot about the other function the appendage performs!
That's a worldly function too, ya know, I'm sure Buddah is keen on a renunciation
of all bodily functions to reach enlightenment!

[Roccus]

THAILAND???

[NeoCaveman]

He's a Darwin Award Nominee.

No, you don't have to die, just taking yourself out of the gene pool suffices.

[Mr. Brightside]

Yeah. Sounds like getting the car all gassed up but having nowhere to go.

[proud American in Canada]

Sounds like getting the car all gassed up but having nowhere to go.

LOL, exactly. :)

[Charles Henrickson]

he had an erection during meditation

The next time this happened, all he had to do was whip out his handy Helen Thomas Anti-Erection Photo Card®, and BINGO, problem solved.

[NonValueAdded]

That article didn't continue, "but he was chagrined to find that his order did not accept females and, lacking the necessary equipment, fell under that definition in the order's centuries-old charter. He was expelled forthwith."

[festus]

If a pecker falls in a forest and there is no one to hear it does it make a sound ?

[martin_fierro]

Prawing Euanontouch

No amateurs, please. Send FReepmail if you want on/off ISHP list
The List of Ping Lists

EU NO TOUCH Ping!

[Slings and Arrows]

I think this qualifies as an anti-Salacious Ping!

[Slings and Arrows]

The really sad part was that all the other monks also cut theirs off.

You know: Monk, he see; monk, he do.

[octobersky]

Now he's just nuts.

[metmom]

He's a Darwin Award Nominee.

No, you don't have to die, just taking yourself out of the gene pool suffices.

I guess that method would work.

[grey_whiskers]

Now he's just nuts.

DING DING DING DING DING DING DING!

NO more calls, please!

WE have a winner!

[new cruelty]

Maybe he was converting and took the bris a bit too far.

[Mr. Brightside]

DING DING DING DING DING DING DING!

You are correct. DING but no DONG.

[StarCMC]

YIKES!!

[Slings and Arrows]

Rama-lama-ding-dong?

[Slings and Arrows]

Well-summarized.

[StarCMC]

Brevity is the soul of wit, so they say. Sometimes there's just no other way to say it! LOL

[StarCMC]

Buddhist monk cuts off penis and renounces refix reflex

[FourPeas]

Prawing declined to comment on the monk's erection

I, for one, am thankful.

[Mr. Brightside]

I have never found the occasion to comment on that subject.

[Chanticleer]

Groan! :-)

[Abathar]

He probably chants in the tenor section and didn't want to move to alto's....

[Chanticleer]

Did he have a little guillotine?

Welcome to Hell

[RockinRight]

Man who go through airport turnstile sideways is going to Bangkok.

[proud American in Canada]

He probably chants in the tenor section and didn't want to move to alto's....

LOL :)

[jwalsh07]

Can't wait unti he has impure thoughts while meditating.

[grey_whiskers]

I wrote today's political limerick about this.

Several comments:

I guess, given the story, he was practicing TM. As in Transcendental Masturbation.

I guess "Thy rod and thy staff" DIDN'T comfort him too much.

"Prawing Euanontouch"--sounds like Pidgin English for -- "Praying You-A-Non-Touch".

Which seems highly appropriate.

Cheers!

[grey_whiskers]

Sounds like this guy applied Mark 9:43 a little zealously:

"If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better to enter heaven with only one hand than to go into the unquenchable fires of hell with two hands."

...oh, and could you consider this guy's behaviour an example of reductio ad absurdum?

Cheers!

[MotleyGirl70]

Prawing declined to comment on the monk's erection, which Bangkok-based Kom Chad Luk tabloid reported on its Web site.

He's totally out of the The Contest, that's for sure.