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Bake and you shall receive
Passed on by Terry Bartlett on Facebook, this ad for Diamond Walnuts. The video: (10/3/13) You always want him to be more thoughtful and romantic. This Diamond Toasted Walnut Truffle recipe will make...
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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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and it floats!
(Advertising and the display of men’s bodies.) From Chris Ambidge, a set of six vintage ads for Ivory Soap (99 44/100 % Pure … It Floats), mostly featuring men or boys bathing in groups. The first has...
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It floats! (ch. 2)
Commenting on my Ivory Soap posting (“and it floats!”) yesterday, Ann Burlingham asks about the images of naked boys and men in these vintage ads: Do you or Chris [Ambidge, who sent me the images] have...
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Antaeus
In an AZBlogX posting this morning, there’s an image (#3) evoking Hercules / Heracles / Herakles together with Antaeus / Antaios — a grinning man hoisting his lover over his shoulder (something my man...
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More bottoms and tops
From Chris Hansen on Facebook, this new contribution to the clothing bottom/top thread: Previous installments, with explanations of the sexual senses of bottom and top: 7/11/11 “Active bottoms” 1013/11...
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On the phallic church watch
Making the rounds on the net recently, this story about an inadvertently phallic church (here from Daily Kos, from 10/31, “Phallic-shaped church to get fig leaf”): Officials from the Christian Science...
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Posture photos
From Chris Ambidge yesterday, an Ivy League nude posture photo — an image from an odd moment in American collegiate history. Here’s the photo with the naughty bits fuzzed over: From Wikipedia: The Ivy...
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Naughty Xmas
The Christmas holidays approach, and we get all sorts of word plays on seasonal themes. Here are three decidedly gay ones. 1. Jingle Balls. From several sources on the net, this entertaining Show Your...
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Briefly noted: inversion
From an ad for the Teeter machines designed to stretch you out and make you feel better, a reference to the “benefits of inversion”. Inversion has multiple senses, including some in linguistics, but...
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Bare Essentials
(Not about language.) On AZBlogX, a posting with five Bare Essentials photos: Each one depicts a naked man — a decent-looking but ordinary mature man (no extraordinary abs, no massive muscles),...
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Genital plants
Two cards in succession in the Art of Instruction set: acorns and arums, both visually similar to human genitals, a fact recognized in some of the common names for the plants. The acorn. The object:...
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Xmas greetings
For the holiday season, this electronic Xmas card from my friend Mike McKinley, with a cheap but entertaining pun:
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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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Xmas phallicity
From Elizabeth Daingerfield Zwicky, from the CakeWrecks site, one of the phallic Xmas creations: Yum.
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More Santa skin
Following up on Santa skivvies (here), here’s a Skintight Santa Costume on BoingBoing 12/16: Creepy.
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Fertility window
From Leith Chu today, this “rare example of what architectural historians refer to as a “fertility window” “: The design elements are routine, but sometimes the combination makes for high phallicity.
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Sexy stuff
Not about language, but sex and sexuality. A wonderful phallic vegetable image, and a collection of images of butts, bears, and labs (scientific laboratories, not labrador dogs). (All thanks to Chris...
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More sexy stuff
(Not about language.) Over on AZBlogX, a set of eight images from the ivegtaboner site (yes, I’ve Got a Boner). A varied set of (very much) X-rated images of men.
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Social memory
From GayStarNews on the 17th, in “Taylor Kitsch ‘had no idea about the whole AIDS epidemic’ before filming The Normal Heart: Actor plays closeted Wall Street executive in denial about having the...
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