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    Image of She_of_the_Socks She_of_the_Socks
    06/18/09

    In reply to How Your Beefcake Gets Made
    I actually had no idea romance novel covers weren't watercolor drawing painted by Nora Ephron.
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    Image of She_of_the_Socks She_of_the_Socks
    06/18/09

    @She_of_the_Socks: *drawingS. For there are many.
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    Image of HiredGoons HiredGoons
    06/18/09

    @She_of_the_Socks: their name is Legion.
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    Image of largirl largirl
    06/18/09

    In reply to How Your Beefcake Gets Made
    I think in this one:


    [www.flickr.com]


    she's trying to figure out a polite way to tell him that his business is showing.

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    Image of theysaidwhat theysaidwhat
    06/18/09

    @largirl: You have to wonder if the splitting seam in the pants is intentional...
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    Image of HiredGoons HiredGoons
    06/18/09

    In reply to How Your Beefcake Gets Made
    Prince Alarming.
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    Image of CaptainFantastic CaptainFantastic
    06/18/09

    In reply to How Your Beefcake Gets Made
    I'm sad to see John Fitzgerald Page still getting work.
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    Image of MisterHippity MisterHippity
    06/18/09

    In reply to How Your Beefcake Gets Made
    How Your Sausage Substitute Gets Made
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    06/18/09

    In reply to How Your Beefcake Gets Made
    This is what Hannah Arendt meant by the banality of evil.
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    Image of HiredGoons HiredGoons
    06/18/09

    @BookishLookish: there is also the evil of banality.


    See what I did? It's not very clever.

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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    06/18/09

    @HiredGoons: Tres charmante. How's your head, cookie? Feeling any better?
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    Image of HiredGoons HiredGoons
    06/18/09

    @BookishLookish: I'm so doped out right now on painkillers I could have my toes run over by a tank and I probably wouldn't feel it.
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    Image of Kid Twist Kid Twist
    06/18/09

    In reply to How Your Beefcake Gets Made
    That's a Hot Pants Homo if I ever saw one.
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    Image of HiredGoons HiredGoons
    06/18/09

    @Kid Twist: ding ding ding!
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    Image of Niko Bellic Niko Bellic
    06/18/09

    @Kid Twist: Oh yeah, baby.
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    Image of Niko Bellic Niko Bellic
    06/18/09

    In reply to How Your Beefcake Gets Made
    So they put baby-faced fat boys on the covers of romance novels now? My guess is: the corrupt person in charge has a kinky taste.
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    Image of PsychicPsycho3 PsychicPsycho3
    06/18/09

    @Niko Bellic: I'm pretty sure body-snarking on men isn't the best thing, either.
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    Image of Mama Penguino Mama Penguino
    06/18/09

    @PsychicPsycho3: That's right. It's on your head, Niko, should Mr. Romance end up with an ED!
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    Image of homoviper homoviper
    06/18/09

    In reply to How Your Beefcake Gets Made
    That guy has major thunder thighs.
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    Image of fuzzywhat fuzzywhat
    06/18/09

    @eXXX: Fits with the rest of him, his whole body is too thick for my tastes.
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    Image of homoviper homoviper
    06/18/09

    @fuzzywhat: Well I'm mostly being silly, but yeah, he's a bit...overdeveloped. I like thick, but this is tooooo much.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    06/18/09

    @eXXX: It is all about how it photographs, as you well know. And he photographs "hunky."
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    Image of Kid Twist Kid Twist
    06/18/09

    @fuzzywhat: He's short, too, like a lot of muscly types. The woman looks longer than him.
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