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Well... they are actually called "mammatus clouds". But unless my extremely rudimentary knowledge of Latin lets me down completely, "mamma" and "mammal" and such words have to do with breasts, so I'm just assuming that "mammatus" does, too. And surely you can admit that the clouds in this picture look like a cornucopia of breasts?

Mammatus clouds over Mexico

Ann

Er...breasts weren't the first things that popped into my mind, to be honest. But then, I am a woman, and a rather pervy one.

That actually looks downright disturbing. It's like the clouds are about to fall down on our heads or something. I've never seen something like that in real life.

Looks more like a cornucopia of bum cheeks to me!

That's what it looked like to me too...among other things.

Seems like we have different points of view. At first sight the clouds looked to me as pieces of cotton put together, somewhat gave me the feeling that they were so close to us that we could touch the sky with our hands, literally.

Then after observing it some minutes I saw what gr8shadesofElvis saw

Carolyn

Seems like the breast clouds were gone for a few hours and replaced with a picture of a starry sky with a comet... well, the clouds are back now. I agree with Carolyn that they make the sky seem to hang so low that you could touch it. Of course I agree with Gr8shadesofelvis, too, that they look like bum cheeks more than breasts, since they are missing the natural "center point" of a breast. But hey, they are called "mammatus clouds", breast clouds, not... whatever "bum cheek clouds" would be in Latin!

And Hasini, I think I know what you mean, too. This is a statue of Athena, the Greek godess:



Athena is covered in what I take to be offerings, among them round male organs that you cut off when you turn a bull into an ox... if you know what I mean.

I can imagine what the Latin name for that kind of clouds would be, but don't expect me to spell it out in this G-rated folder!

Ann