You Can Never Be Too Careful
"In Which We Decode"
From mrpeenee:
Is there anything more ephemeral than advertising? You know what they say, mass mind control today, gone tomorrow. And yet some ads live on, almost always because some homo gay has either a) fetishized it like the Brawny papertowel guy or b) decided there is gay relevance in there hidden by code.
Code was the way queers were able to find each other and to express themselves during the years of repression we had to tolerate. Making eye contact with some stranger and then following him into a toilet is all well and good for sex, but for communicating in various media, we needed a way to hide in plain view. And thus, code.
The most perfect example of this, I think, are these weird ads from Schlitz beer from the 1950s. They all appeared as three illustrated panels followed by the internal monologue of one of the heroes.
They all start off with the same pronouncement: "I was curious." Of course, "curious" nowadays is understood to mean "looking for hot dick, but I want to maintain plausible deniability." In the Eisenhower America these ads appeared in, the word would not have had those lurid overtones, but the illustrations make it clear that what he's actually curious about is what's in the other guy's pants.
The rest of the text is bland advertising naff, but that's where the artwork takes over and really spins these beauties into the love that dares not speak its name, but really likes to hint around about it.
Every one of the ads has the second panel with the ladies dropping out to leave the boys alone and with one of them (usually the more experienced one, ready to lead the other down the primrose path of butt sex) sporting a knowing look on his face. A look that says "I've got the cure for that itchy prostate."
The final panel is my favorite, with our two lads now closing in for the clinch and both of them bright eyed, leering at each other and probably popping a stiffy. If there had been a fourth panel, can there be any doubt sodomy would have been involved?
366 (It's a Leap Year, Boys) Days of UNF: Day 352
I'm Going To Hell
"I told you we were gonna do anal. I just didn't say when."
I'm Going to Hell
"The passenger in 14B will no longer a problem, Captain."
I'm Going to Hell
"Granny, that's way too much arsenic."
"I'm not taking any chances, dear."
I'm Going To Hell
I'm Going To Hell
"Bitch, for the hundredth time I told you the next number is Macho Man, not "YMCA!"
I'm Going To Hell
"Honey, how many times do I have to tell you? Keep it at 40 or the body starts decomposing right away!"
I'm Going To Hell
"Brad's hot. Think he'd be into a little Pepsi bottle ass-play?"
I'm Going To Hell
"Now ladies, no need to fight over it. Once I get this unzipped you'll see there's plenty for both of you!"
I'm Going To Hell
"I swear kid, if you snap another upskirt photo of my wife I'll throw you off this train myself you little perv!"
I'm Going To Hell
"I really don't mind if John spends half an hour in the Greyhound mens' room before we get on the bus. He always comes out so happy and relaxed."
I'm Going To Hell
"George is lighting Frank's cigarette! Do you think he's gonna ask him out?"
"Damn George, I never realized how big your hands were…how big and masculine."
I'm Going To Hell
"Jules, that look was already done in Season 9, and it's obvious you don't know the words, either!"
I'm Going To Hell
"I've got two more balls just that big as that one and they're itchin' to be played with. Go ahead. I know you want to."
I'm Going To Hell
"Honey, I really don't need to see that."
"You should get that looked at."
"I don't think it's supposed to be that color."
"Jesus CHRIST, lady!"
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I'm Going To Hell
"It's $20 for a handy, $50 for oral, and $200 for anal."
I'm Going To Hell
"Herbert, how many times do I have to tell you? NO BUTT PLUGS IN WITH THE DISHES…DAMN IT!"
I'm Going to Hell
"I'm never going to get rid of these blood stains before CSI shows up!"
I'm Going to Hell
John knew the acid he'd dropped at breakfast finally kicked in when the giant shoes suddenly appeared in the middle of Fifth Avenue.
I'm Going to Hell
"Hey John, Louise and I are going to a Crisco party. Wanna join us?"
"Hell yes! Let me grab my rubber gloves…"
I'm Going to Hell
Marlene was so high from snorting lines all night she didn't realize she'd wrapped herself in the tablecloth as she got up. George didn't care. He knew he was finally gonna get some pussy outta that bitch.
I'm Going To Hell
"Like what you see down there? You've been eyeing my crotch all afternoon. Wanna suck it? God knows Mary won't!"
I'm Going To Hell
"Well that's just GREAT. Thanks to you, my husband has to sit on a fucking donut pillow all the way to Albuquerque because you didn't use any lube! And by the way, your restrooms are filthy."
I'm Going To Hell
"Hurry up, Frank! Those Thai boys aren't gonna fuck themselves!"
I'm Going to Hell
"Girl, Bianca Del Rio ain't got nothin' on you!"
I'm Going to Hell
"Fuck this shit. I wanna see the titty pix!"