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It’s big bull Tuesday here at the Pony blog — Man, we are so full of it.
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Source:chenwenling.com Chen Wenling's sculpture, titled fang pi (big fart). |
First, it was Bank of America [BAC
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] bringing back Merrill’s iconic bull, now it’s Bernie Madoff’s bull.
Pictures have been circulating on the Internet in the past few weeks of a sculpture of Bernie Madoff getting gored by a bull. It was done by Chinese sculptor Chen Wenling.
The knee-jerk reaction of most has been to cheer for Madoff getting gored — then wonder what’s up with the big gas cloud coming out of the bull.
In America, it’s fair to assume that it’s just a fart joke.
But this is China — and it’s a sophisticated fart joke.
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The title of the piece is fang pi, which literally means “the big fart” in Chinese. But the slang definition is “to bluff or lie.”
As we say in America — classy!
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