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JVS

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Thu Dec 19, 2013, 08:20 PM Dec 2013

Looks like John Ashcroft has some competition from Sweden

The deputy speaker of Sweden's Riksdag has tired of the bare breasts adorning the walls in parliament and has ensured the removal of the offending painting from the parliament's dining room.


The nude named Juno, painted by baroque artist G E Schröder, had hung in the guest dining room for some 30 years before deputy speaker Susanne Eberstein decided enough was enough.

Eberstein's will was the janitor's command and one day Juno was gone, and the flaunted flesh beamed down no more on visitors to Sweden's national assembly.

http://www.thelocal.se/20131219/house-speaker-removes-painted-breasts
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Looks like John Ashcroft has some competition from Sweden (Original Post) JVS Dec 2013 OP
Why do some people find breasts so offensive? Scuba Dec 2013 #1
h-oae lease-pay ont-day tart-say he-tay orn-pay ar-way gain-aay HereSince1628 Dec 2013 #2
Um, OK. That wasn't me. Scuba Dec 2013 #3
I know. But, a breeze on hot embers and HereSince1628 Dec 2013 #4
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