Re: Honky...Where It Counts!

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Dude you're whiter than I am.


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 06-12-08 9:17 PM
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Is this the sports thread? Because while the rest of you nerds were all like, ooh free speech, Boston just pulled within two points.


Posted by: Jesus McQueen | Link to this comment | 06-12-08 9:18 PM
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2: fuckin' a what a run.


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 06-12-08 9:19 PM
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That's the funniest thing I've seen all week.

(And Jesus, yeah, I've got the game on too. I never thought I'd say this but... go Celts!)


Posted by: Josh | Link to this comment | 06-12-08 9:19 PM
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How did Ogged get some hairless guy with a slightly more muscular, but identically tanned, right leg to stand next to his left leg for that shot?

Is this one of those "photoshops" I've been hearing about?


Posted by: JRoth | Link to this comment | 06-12-08 9:20 PM
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Is ogged shaving half his body these days?


Posted by: Annie | Link to this comment | 06-12-08 9:21 PM
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Without free speech, it would be illegal to say, "Fuck the Lakers and the rapist they rode in on." And that wouldn't be right.

PS - Fuck the Celts as well. I'm hoping for a surprise comeback from the Penguins.


Posted by: JRoth | Link to this comment | 06-12-08 9:23 PM
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It's for his swim meet.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 06-12-08 9:24 PM
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How does shaving one leg help in a swim meet?


Posted by: Annie | Link to this comment | 06-12-08 9:26 PM
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8: well, half of it.


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 06-12-08 9:26 PM
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The title of the post demands that you link to the uncropped photo, o-honky.


Posted by: Jesus McQueen | Link to this comment | 06-12-08 9:26 PM
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9: ogged is fighting an unfortunate tendency to swim in circles.


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 06-12-08 9:28 PM
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How does shaving one leg help in a swim meet?

It's a circular course.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 06-12-08 9:28 PM
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Goddammit Sifu.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 06-12-08 9:28 PM
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12: *snort*

My choices are:
a) figure out why ogged shaved only one of his legs
OR
b) figure out what this David Lewis article is all about


Posted by: Annie | Link to this comment | 06-12-08 9:29 PM
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It's about metaphysics.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 06-12-08 9:30 PM
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The title of the post demands that you link to the uncropped photo, o-honky.

The way my screen was when I clicked to read more, the top of the photo was off screen and I thought, 'This can't be a picture of ogged's cock.'

Whew.


Posted by: Annie | Link to this comment | 06-12-08 9:31 PM
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16: I should have asked you about it long ago.


Posted by: Annie | Link to this comment | 06-12-08 9:32 PM
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I think it's supposed to convey a sense of the before and after, Annie.

If ogged is doing this in his bathroom at home, I look forward to a post about hiring a plumber.


Posted by: Jesus McQueen | Link to this comment | 06-12-08 9:33 PM
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19.2: what are you, a federal judge?


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 06-12-08 9:34 PM
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Holy shit, btw. Go celts.


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 06-12-08 9:39 PM
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Holy crap, if Boston can pull this off, I'm just gonna, I'm just gonna, um, I'm just gonna pee right here out of sheer excitement.


Posted by: Jesus McQueen | Link to this comment | 06-12-08 9:39 PM
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eh... been there, done that. honky.


Posted by: tweedledopey | Link to this comment | 06-12-08 9:42 PM
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If only there was a "hide more" button for my mind.


Posted by: TJ | Link to this comment | 06-12-08 9:44 PM
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Why, I think that these Bruins might stand a chance!

24 is good.


Posted by: JRoth | Link to this comment | 06-12-08 9:46 PM
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23 to 22.


Posted by: Robust McManlyPants | Link to this comment | 06-12-08 9:46 PM
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As a foreigner, ogged has egregiously—if hilariously—misinterpreted the phrase "get a leg up on the competition".

Hubba, hubba.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 06-12-08 9:49 PM
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Also, didn't ogged do a lot of bragging about how his pool is an outdoor pool? How did he wind up with a tan line like that, short of Victorian swimwear?


Posted by: Robust McManlyPants | Link to this comment | 06-12-08 9:50 PM
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This is pretty exciting, and I don't usually like pro basketball.


Posted by: Nápi | Link to this comment | 06-12-08 9:50 PM
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Christ, 15 seconds and 3 TOs between them? I'm going to take that walk around the block now, so I'll be back in time for the finish.


Posted by: JRoth | Link to this comment | 06-12-08 9:51 PM
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Effing amazing. LA needs a miracle.


Posted by: Jesus McQueen | Link to this comment | 06-12-08 9:51 PM
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And the Celtics have Jesus (Shuttlesworth)!


Posted by: ari | Link to this comment | 06-12-08 9:52 PM
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Like 9, I don't get why one leg only. I can't wait to see pics of a t-shirt tan, or the farmer's tan. Welcome to America, Ogged.

I am getting gloriously olive-skinned, despite all the sun block I wear. This weekend at the beach won't help. My mom will think I look like a peasant in the rice paddies. I never liked that my boobs will be look like bright white headlights while my decolletage looks as warm and sunbrowned as Sophia Loren's. I wonder how the ladies of Unfogged deal with this. Do you just exfoliate a lot after the summer ends?


Posted by: Belle Lettre | Link to this comment | 06-12-08 9:53 PM
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30: I think I'll preëmptively bleed the weasel, so I can avoid having to make good on 22.


Posted by: Jesus McQueen | Link to this comment | 06-12-08 9:53 PM
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Michael wouldn't have lost this game.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 06-12-08 9:54 PM
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I knew it: god loves Boston more than LA.


Posted by: ari | Link to this comment | 06-12-08 9:55 PM
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Looking at the Game Flow chart, I'd have to say that LA's mistake was the part where they went 10 minutes without scoring hardly at all.

Remember, folks, I played in HS - don't try this shit at home.


Posted by: JRoth | Link to this comment | 06-12-08 9:55 PM
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36 gets it exactly right.


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 06-12-08 9:56 PM
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HA! In your face, Kobe! In your face, courtside celebrities! Faster, Boston, Kill Kill Kill!


Posted by: Jesus McQueen | Link to this comment | 06-12-08 9:56 PM
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I wonder how the ladies of Unfogged deal with this.

By posting lots and lots of pictures.


Posted by: JRoth | Link to this comment | 06-12-08 9:56 PM
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It's unnerving watching Pierce walk down the tunnel, a full five minutes after the game has ended, screaming to himself.


Posted by: ari | Link to this comment | 06-12-08 9:57 PM
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All is not lost, Lakers fans. Dick Bavetta will surely work game 5, so you'll at least get to take it to Boston.


Posted by: xyzzy | Link to this comment | 06-12-08 9:58 PM
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36, 38: So you believe in the kind of God who gives His Beloved hardships (traffic, weather, 20thC Sox), and his Accursed blessings (OK, the traffic's a wash)?


Posted by: JRoth | Link to this comment | 06-12-08 9:58 PM
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I wonder how the ladies of Unfogged deal with this. Do you just exfoliate a lot after the summer ends?

Do you mean that the tan lines remain after summer's over and you wonder what to do about that?


Posted by: Annie | Link to this comment | 06-12-08 9:59 PM
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43: I just believe everything that Paul Pierce says, including: "YEAH! C'MON! THAT'S HOW YOU DO IT!" And also that god was the reason that the Celtics won. Anyway, you have a better explanation for what just happened on my teevee?


Posted by: ari | Link to this comment | 06-12-08 10:01 PM
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I never liked that my boobs will be look like bright white headlights while my decolletage looks as warm and sunbrowned as Sophia Loren's.

It is a testament to the power of sports that I skimmed right over this earlier. Good heavens, Belle.


Posted by: Jesus McQueen | Link to this comment | 06-12-08 10:01 PM
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A gentleman ignores 33. Except to say, rowr.


Posted by: ari | Link to this comment | 06-12-08 10:03 PM
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Are there any reliable measurements of how much time shaving saves? It's just hard to fathom that it can get in the way all that much.


Posted by: Michael | Link to this comment | 06-12-08 10:04 PM
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Amen. Tan lines are foxy.


Posted by: A White Bear | Link to this comment | 06-12-08 10:04 PM
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i sort of surprised that Ogged resisted this opportunity to penis blog.

btw, are you shaving your penis? Or is your swimwear water-resistant enough such that that particular part doesn't matter?


Posted by: Michael | Link to this comment | 06-12-08 10:07 PM
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Hey ogged should make the original post a viral thing. Tag some blogger and they have to shave one of their legs and post a picture.


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 06-12-08 10:09 PM
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47: If this "god" of yours really existed, 40 would happen.

For the record, I've never dated a woman who tanned, so I actually can't quite imagine what this would be like IRL (although my guess is, Just fine!). But I don't actually desire revealing pics of BL.


Posted by: JRoth | Link to this comment | 06-12-08 10:11 PM
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Are there any reliable measurements of how much time shaving saves? It's just hard to fathom that it can get in the way all that much.

What's even harder to fathom is that it makes a difference in cycling (air vs. water). Yet even pretty casual racers do it. Makes no sense to me.


Posted by: JRoth | Link to this comment | 06-12-08 10:13 PM
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52: And I don't desire to post them. Although I miss Becks "for the ladies" posts, which I found very useful.

We saw the A's almost kill the Yankees last night. Totally awesome. Almost made up for their choking against the LAA (Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, WTF is wrong with my hometown) on Saturday. I have never been good at keeping hometown allegiances. My family is one of rabid Lakers fans, and I have always liked the Kings better. No idea why. Maybe it's a form of rebellion. Also, the Lakers have no heart.


Posted by: Belle Lettre | Link to this comment | 06-12-08 10:15 PM
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53: My understanding is that cyclists do it for all the scrapes and scratches and subsequent bandage-removal (ow! hair!).


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 06-12-08 10:16 PM
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btw, are you shaving your penis? Or is your swimwear water-resistant enough such that that particular part doesn't matter?

My money says he's tuckin' & tapin' in classic drag queen style.


Posted by: Robust McManlyPants | Link to this comment | 06-12-08 10:17 PM
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Dude. Dude


Posted by: baa | Link to this comment | 06-12-08 10:18 PM
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Dude!


Posted by: Cala | Link to this comment | 06-12-08 10:23 PM
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Dude?


Posted by: Josh | Link to this comment | 06-12-08 10:25 PM
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This blog rules.

Also, I stopped watching the finals after those first three games. I have my limits.


Posted by: gswift | Link to this comment | 06-12-08 10:25 PM
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My money says he's tuckin' & tapin' in classic drag queen style.

"Would you fuck me? I'd fuck me."


Posted by: Josh | Link to this comment | 06-12-08 10:26 PM
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Notice that ogged's right-leg tan goes higher up his leg than does his left-leg tan, and that, as he's standing, the right leg appears skinnier than the left (though that may just be an optical illusion owing to its hairiness).

What sinister messages might he be sending his Persian brothers in this way?


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 06-12-08 10:28 PM
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61 is one of the greatest scenes in movie history.


Posted by: Walt Someguy | Link to this comment | 06-12-08 10:31 PM
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I wonder how the ladies of Unfogged deal with this.

Such tender concern for the laydeez. But that's unfogged...


Posted by: Mary Catherine | Link to this comment | 06-12-08 10:34 PM
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I missed 44: Yes.

You mean tans fade for other people? Mine stays for quite a while, even though I'm an academic and at one point never understood what Ogged was complaining about with the overcast weather, so little did I venture away from my home office.

I am now commuting to school five days a week to use a campus computer to code sexual harassment cases into variables, four hours a day, N =1000+. I am getting tank top lines. It is good to get out of the house though, I suppose, although one generally need not to with Remote Desktop (although I'm trying to figure out if it will work with Vista, and if my prof will let me).


Posted by: Belle Lettre | Link to this comment | 06-12-08 10:36 PM
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screw it. I'll shave my right arm and report back on how much my tennis game has improved.


Posted by: Michael | Link to this comment | 06-12-08 10:40 PM
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Frankly, I'm a little freaked out by the whole thing.

Well you're supposed to stop when you get to the part the bathing suit covers.

One of the interesting aspects of doing it from early teens through college was having it go from a quick and easy hour to a two night ordeal that had me questioning whether the negative impact of all the bending and contortions on my muscles outweighed the punitive putative benefits.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 06-12-08 10:51 PM
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Frankly, I'm a little freaked out by the whole thing.

Ogged had never seen his entire penis before.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 06-12-08 11:04 PM
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"punitive benefits" is a happy malapropism.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 06-12-08 11:05 PM
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Do the jammers give one a performance boost with breast stroke, or is it just modesty?


Posted by: Trevor | Link to this comment | 06-12-08 11:11 PM
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when asked if you've shaved your penis, not responding means "yes"


Posted by: Michael | Link to this comment | 06-12-08 11:36 PM
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There was a rumor going around my HS one year that the boys hockey team got together and shaved their testicles as a group in order to psych themselves up for the playoffs.


Posted by: Otto von Bisquick | Link to this comment | 06-12-08 11:44 PM
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For an Iranian, shaving that thing adds at least two optical inches.


Posted by: gswift | Link to this comment | 06-12-08 11:46 PM
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Pshaw, Ogged. You just posted this because you've got a gay guy reading your blog now.


Posted by: Rottin' in Denmark | Link to this comment | 06-13-08 12:02 AM
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Things I have discovered underneath the hair. 1) My arms are actually kinda rockin'. 2) I have manboobs.

And now, to bed. Everything feels very strange against my skin.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 06-13-08 12:06 AM
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you've got a gay guy reading your blog now

You're not the only homo around here, homo.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 06-13-08 12:11 AM
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And the homoerotic subtext of Unfogged is long established.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 06-13-08 12:25 AM
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oddly enough I have more or less the reverse tan line.


Posted by: dsquared | Link to this comment | 06-13-08 12:31 AM
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further to 77, we're all just a jovial bunch of slap-your-ass, cup-your-balls, pull-your-dick dudes.


Posted by: Michael | Link to this comment | 06-13-08 12:42 AM
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79: You're right, it's like a Slavic water polo team in here...


Posted by: Rottin' in Denmark | Link to this comment | 06-13-08 2:11 AM
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oddly enough I have more or less the reverse tan line.

You wear short shorts and over the knee socks?


Posted by: emir | Link to this comment | 06-13-08 4:24 AM
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All I can say is: "Wow! Do those go all the way up?"


Posted by: minneapolitan | Link to this comment | 06-13-08 5:56 AM
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Umm, wow. Yesterday his soul, today this thighs, what will tomorrow bring?

33-Belle, I agree with AWB that tan lines can be sexy, but if they really bother you and you want your boobs to be "as warm and sunbrowned as Sophia Loren's" than use a self tanner.


Posted by: Fleur | Link to this comment | 06-13-08 6:24 AM
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83: Very early on in our relationship, I made Fleur cry by remarking that I hadn't seen boobs with a tan line in a long time (living, as I then did, in the land of oben ohne.

Such a charmer. It's a wonder she ever fell for me.


Posted by: Knecht Ruprecht | Link to this comment | 06-13-08 6:34 AM
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83- it wasn't so much the surprised/negative reaction to the tan lines that made me cry, it was the "Mambo #5" recitation of all the German girls he had been with who didn't have them.


Posted by: Fleur | Link to this comment | 06-13-08 6:41 AM
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Another vote that tan lines on women are teh sexxxiest.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 06-13-08 6:42 AM
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it was the "Mambo #5" recitation of all the German girls he had been with who didn't have them.

I might have gotten by with that alone, but when I attempted to quantify them all on the CIE Whiteness Scale, that was when I got myself into trouble.


Posted by: Knecht Ruprecht | Link to this comment | 06-13-08 6:48 AM
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87: Well, no wonder, you effete elitist. Shoulda stuck to PANTONE.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 06-13-08 6:51 AM
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Yes, true. You thought more factual backup would make your case. That and the fact that there was not a tan line to be found on you. Oh, yes and that reminds me: the tiresome, lengthy, and relentless extolments on the virtues of nude sunbathing. "I nude sun bath in the park near my office in the summer months..."


Posted by: Fleur | Link to this comment | 06-13-08 6:57 AM
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Wow, Fleur. Knecht is really lucky that you stuck with him.


Posted by: Bostoniangirl | Link to this comment | 06-13-08 7:00 AM
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Very early on in our relationship, I made Fleur cry by remarking that

"in this relationship one of us has the tan lines, and I think it's pretty clear which one."


Posted by: Gonerill | Link to this comment | 06-13-08 7:04 AM
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90: She knows that, and I know that, but I'm sure it's nice to have it confirmed.


Posted by: Knecht Ruprecht | Link to this comment | 06-13-08 7:06 AM
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Fleur, on the other hand..... will be rewarded on Heaven?


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 06-13-08 7:23 AM
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decolletage looks as warm and sunbrowned as Sophia Loren's.

Wow, that's great. do you write pr0n, Belle L? Under some other pseudonym? Would you be willing to start?


Posted by: rob helpy-chalk | Link to this comment | 06-13-08 7:26 AM
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nice, young looking legs, already half-tanned
i couldn't have a look yesterday, there were only mcafee letters, f. antivirus
thought it's something nsfw
don't know about legs, but hands i thinks could be telling about one's character, deeds or fortune
my driving instructor two yrs ago was an Iranian, a talkative friendly guy, he said the Persian fortune-tellers are the best, his wife sometimes consults through the phone with their family astrologer back in Iran
i wonder whether Ogged also knows some tidbits of that ancient knowledge, the palm reading, fortune telling etc
it would be interesting to read
/a request for the future posts (please)?
good luck with the swimming competition!


Posted by: read | Link to this comment | 06-13-08 8:05 AM
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The ancient Lur wisdom is not to be revealed to crusaders and Mongols, read.


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 06-13-08 8:08 AM
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my instructor was very willing to introduce me to his consultant
i refused just b/c i'm kinda superstitious and it would be like calling a bad luck if everything is going pretty normal to consult an extrasense


Posted by: read | Link to this comment | 06-13-08 8:13 AM
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Ah, what a great picture. I predict that Ogged will find that he likes it, what with the odd sensations on the skin, but he will never admit this!


Posted by: parsimon | Link to this comment | 06-13-08 8:24 AM
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everything is going pretty normal
though now things are changing a bit
i have two-three pretty difficult issues to ponder about
hence my request


Posted by: read | Link to this comment | 06-13-08 8:28 AM
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Something something kobe honky.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 06-13-08 9:27 AM
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I think I deserve the 100th comment on this one.


Posted by: FL | Link to this comment | 06-13-08 9:27 AM
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Hate you, Ben.


Posted by: FL | Link to this comment | 06-13-08 9:28 AM
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Perhaps the best series of comments around 100 ever.


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 06-13-08 9:29 AM
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i always miss 43, it's my lucky number


Posted by: read | Link to this comment | 06-13-08 9:32 AM
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Good luck, but in the event of a Traumatic Swimming Event (TSE) you'll be pleased to know that an effective therapy seems to have been found.

Athletes who have experienced an upsetting competitive experience not only may perceive competition negatively but relive the upsetting performance event when they approach competition or contemplate competition which results in an increase in anxiety. EMDR was performed with competitive swimmers to aid them in reprocessing an upsetting swimming event.

EMDR is Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, as far as I can tell they strap you down with open eyes (think Clockwork Orange) and have you relive the event while your eye follows a dancing light. So go out there and perform, no worries, we can fix you right up afterwards no matter what. (They give a series of vignettes at the end of the article, the last is entitled "Mr. 50 Breaststroke".)


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 06-13-08 9:54 AM
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Definitely a Flickr-worthy picture. If Labs' colon ever gets old, this would make a great replacement.


Posted by: Populuxe | Link to this comment | 06-13-08 9:55 AM
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Knees are oddly shaped.

Everyone's knees, not just ogged's.


Posted by: winna | Link to this comment | 06-13-08 9:59 AM
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If Labs' colon ever gets old

Given the heavy use to which it's regularly subjected, something that's likely to happen before its time.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 06-13-08 10:00 AM
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already half-tanned

Well, usually you try to get the whole thing at once. Doing one half and then the other is fraught.


Posted by: TJ | Link to this comment | 06-13-08 10:20 AM
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Pshaw, Ogged. You just posted this because you've got a gay guy reading your blog now.

Oh, honey.


Posted by: Robust McManlyPants | Link to this comment | 06-13-08 11:21 AM
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Ur not gay ur a paladin.


Posted by: Cala | Link to this comment | 06-13-08 11:23 AM
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EMDR is Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, as far as I can tell they strap you down with open eyes (think Clockwork Orange) and have you relive the event while your eye follows a dancing light.

Not so much with the strapping down or gluing the eyes open. It's been remarkably effective with PTSD, which I find striking partly because it's so low-tech. Whether losing a race because of a haphazardly shaven leg qualifies as actual trauma, I couldn't say.

I was very reluctant to use it (non-PTSD-related) because it sounds so sketchy and New Agey (tapping into memories stored physically in places other than our brains), but it was pretty cool.


Posted by: Sir Kraab | Link to this comment | 06-13-08 11:26 AM
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Ur not gay ur a paladin.

If anyone else here were a WoW player I could link to a funny video. Le sigh.


Posted by: Robust McManlyPants | Link to this comment | 06-13-08 11:28 AM
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I figured that you were referring to the fact that you were able to crop that picture awfully far up your thigh. I thought I had the littlest prick in the world, but maybe I'm wrong.


Posted by: Howard Stern | Link to this comment | 06-13-08 11:34 AM
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112: Not so much with the strapping down or gluing the eyes open.

Yeah, a slight embellishment there on my part ...

Whether losing a race because of a haphazardly shaven leg qualifies as actual trauma, I couldn't say.

Well other more mortifying possibilities lurk. Two examples: same guy same outdoor meet:
1) Literally rescued from the water near the end of 100 butterfly in a crappy no-gutter long course pool; the field finished just far enough ahead of him that he got the finishing backwash wave just as he was taking a breath and swallowed all water, another two water breaths in a row and he was toast.
2) Managed to somehow miss that the 50 (1 lap) started at the other end, and got up on the blocks for his heat to gaze across the pool at the other 7 competitors.

(Admittedly, we did very little long course.)


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 06-13-08 11:37 AM
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i thought how one takes the picture of one's legs
maybe bpl helped you to take the picture or did you bend forward to take the picture?
then some muscles would look stretched, no?
or you put the camera on the chair and used a remote
once i tried to take picture of my hands doing the house figure it was impossible to catch only the hands and not part of the torso without anyone's assistance, although i used the webcam recording to keep my hands free


Posted by: read | Link to this comment | 06-13-08 11:43 AM
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115: Near-drowning definitely cranks up the traum-o-meter. If 115.2 counted, though, EMDR would have to be a required class in 5th grade.


Posted by: Sir Kraab | Link to this comment | 06-13-08 11:48 AM
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53: The cycling/triathlete shaving isn't really rooted in anything. Sure, it might be for nicks and scrapes and shit like that, but it might also be because our legs just look that much better when shaven as compared to hairy. Which also explains why the picture was taken with only one leg shorn.


Posted by: tweedledopey | Link to this comment | 06-13-08 12:04 PM
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118: I'd always heard it was to make it easier to write numbers on you.


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 06-13-08 12:07 PM
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Well, for triathletes. Cyclists swear up and down it's because of road rash.


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 06-13-08 12:08 PM
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120: If it's road rash, getting hair stuck in it isn't going to hurt any more than the rash itself. Also, cyclists lie. As for triathletes, we don't shave our arms, or our chests, or our backs or heads. Just our legs.


Posted by: tweedledopey | Link to this comment | 06-13-08 12:12 PM
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Also, cyclists lie.

Not denying that.


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 06-13-08 12:17 PM
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Wasn't ogged giving B shit for having veiny boobs? Mr. ogged, you have veiny thighs under that body hair, which means that you too would have veiny boobs, were you a woman.


Posted by: Jackmormon | Link to this comment | 06-13-08 4:20 PM
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120/121: it's not the pain, it's easier to clean up the road rash, hence less infection risk. But yeah, mostly bs.


Posted by: soup biscuit | Link to this comment | 06-13-08 4:22 PM
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