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Shirtless on the Great Plains
(Not much about language.) Tim Evanson reported on Google+ yesterday that he was driving to North Dakota. And posted this scenic photo: (#1) [Tim writes:] Denizens of North Dakota look like this....
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Tennis hunks
(Not about language.) Having gotten off onto shirtless abs-displaying hunks in acting and modeling (Kellan Lutz, Josh Duhamel, Taylor Lautner), I pulled up shirtless tennis hunks, including two recent...
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Moose Knuckles Canada
From Chris Ambidge, this photo of a window in a camping supply store on Rideau St. in Ottawa: (#1) Moose Knuckles turns out to be the name of a brand of sportswear — distinctly Canadian, and also...
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Steve Grand, DNA, Timoteo
(Not a lot about language, but mostly about music, sexuality, and the display of men’s bodies.) This is about the country musician Steve Grand, the cover musician Steve Starchild, and the underwear...
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More tennis hunks
(Not about language, but mostly about men’s bodies.) This seems to be a Morning of Shirtlessness. Following on a posting about musician Steve Grand working as an underwear model, I now return to...
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Odds and ends: portmanteaus to penises
An accumulation of miscellanea: portmanteaus, porn flick and pornstar names, (in the continuing Remarkable Underwear series) black lace skivvies, and (in the continuing News for Penises series), the...
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Jockstrap Man, Hutspah shirts, and Nudie Cohn
From Facebook friends who passed this image (from Kitsch Bitsch) on: (#1) Clearly a page from a catalogue, offering jockstraps (from an unnamed company) and Hutspah shirts, with the models arranged so...
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Not your grandfather’s Sears catalogue
From the Canadian pandas (Leith Chu and Chris Ambidge) on Facebook, an image from the Sears catalogue of a handsome model in a men’s 4-piece adjustable harness (plus a black pouch, sold separately)....
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Alan Ritchson (and Justin Hartley)
(Not about language, but about shirtless actors, mostly in underwear.) An episode of Smallville that came by in reruns this morning featured hunky actor Alan Ritchson as Arthur Curry aka Aquaman, a...
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Swiss shirtlessness
From Amanda Walker, this link to a piece from The Local: Switzerland’s News in English, on “In Pictures: Shock! Farmers in underpants are models!”. Ok, it combines Switzerland (one of my two ancestral...
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This year’s Santa skivvies
(Not a lot about language.) Time for this year’s bulletin on the Santa Skivvy run in Boston: On the 2012 run, here and here. Not a lot to say about skivvies. From NOAD2: trademark underwear, esp. a...
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Lateral flash thong
(Mostly, but not entirely, about men’s underwear.) On Facebook, a link passed on by Matthew Melmon to a June 13th posting on the Metro (U.K.) website, “Amazing news! Now you too can own this...
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Homage to Marky / Mark
(The first of two postings with vanishingly little linguistic comment, but plenty of appreciation of male bodies, plus material on the projection of sexuality in photographs. Not technically X-rated,...
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Mad Bum
Following on the World Series triumphs of San Francisco Giants pitcher Madison Bumgarner, the Jockey underwear people have taken advantage of his nickname Mad Bum to produce this double entendre...
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Who-liday specials
Not one, but two. First, a special offer from the BBC Doctor Who Shop. And a special holiday event at the Universal Orlando Resort, featuring Dr. Seuss’s Grinch and the Whos of Whoville. The Doctor Who...
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Rainbow postings
Added this morning, a Page with lists of postings on the rainbow as a gay symbol: on rainbow food, on rainbow underwear, and on other uses of the rainbow flag. I’ll add to these lists as new postings...
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Hunky mysteries of identity
(Minimal linguistic interest, lots of male skin.) From Michael Nieuwenhuizen, with a gasp, this cock-tease photo: (#1) I dreamt I went on the internet in my Dolce & Gabbana briefs. Appreciative...
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Valentine moose-knuckle
(Not much about language) From Channel 1 Releasing, an ad for a Valentine Day’s special of porn: Puns are a standard feature of Valentine Day’s greetings: here heart-on (referring to the heart-covered...
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From the Oscar watch
I don’t watch the Oscars shows, but you can’t avoid being exposed to information about them and images from them. So this shot of host Neil Patrick Harris (apparently in an allusion to the movie...
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Color and advertising your preferences
In my e-mail, a flagrantly gay ad for the men’s underwear site Daily Jocks, offering (among other things) wildly colorful Andrew Christian items and the Identity line from Curbwear, which allows the...
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