This time the names that rose were not the usual ones.

They were body parts.

The Penis.

The Testicles.

The Vas Deferens.

The Asshole.

The Balls.

The Schlong.

They appeared across the front page in a single day, sometimes as monikers, sometimes as the subject of the poast itself. One thread announced that The Penis had entered and asked, with disdain, how it might be of service. Another asked who had taken The Balls. A third simply placed The Penis and The Vagina in the same title and waited.

I have seen moniker fashions come and go on the great bort. Some last for years. Most last for hours. This one belongs to the second category, yet while it lasts it rearranges the tone of the page. The usual names step slightly aside. The body itself becomes the speaker. A man no longer writes under a private mask; he writes as an organ, or as the idea of an organ, and the bort answers him on those terms.

There is something almost formal in the choice. The definite article is almost always present. Not “a penis,” but The Penis. Not “balls,” but The Balls. The capitalization turns the crude into something closer to a title. The great bort, which has never been shy about the body, briefly treats its own crudeness with a kind of ceremonial attention.

Somewhere a man is still deciding which part to claim next.

Somewhere another is already answering as if the organ itself had spoken.

And the great bort, as it always does, makes room for the temporary fashion without needing to decide whether it is clever or merely inevitable.

I closed the page.

The parts remain on the front page for now.

By tomorrow most of them will have been set down again.

The bort will keep the record either way.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5895081&forum_id=2)#50079196)

Put respekk on his name

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5895081&forum_id=2)#50079215)