[Julie Steiner]

Yes, Le Styrge is one of the "newfangled" Viollet-le-Duc creations. As derided by the curmudgeons of its day as emoji and gifs are in ours. (And technically a grotesque, not a gargoyle, which, as you say, are designed to have water running through them.)

Aaron, before I saw your comment, I had edited out the other images I had posted, which included the nose-picking grotesque at Ely Cathedral, and some recent emoji-inspired grotesques on a Dutch building. Plus a link to some of the many authentic, obscene gargoyles, but I belatedly reconsidered that in light of the clergy sex scandals.

I was trying (and failing) to suggest that we could all lighten up a bit in this thread. The level of hostility and vitriol over minor quibbles is troubling. And humor is definitely in the eye of the beholder.