In case you didn’t know, I didn’t come up with the phrase “anal sovereignty” — credit for that goes to Jonathan Rosenberg, the guy behind the online comic Goats and inventor of my another favourite phrase of mine, “ass finger“. The story of how I passed inspection at U.S. Customs did the rounds at the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference; since that memorable phrase was used to end that blog entry, it became a popular expression for the week.
Here’s the strip in which “anal sovereignty” appears:
Click the comic to see it at full size.
And for the insatiably curious and butt-joke-fixated, here’s:
- a Google search on the words “anal” and “sovereignty”
- a Google search on the phrase “anal sovereignty” (currently, there’s only one result, and it’s mine.)
Now I think I shall step outside and do something a little more productive (and a little less disturbing).