Somewhere on Amazon there's a great old classic limerick book, used, reprinted, cheap- I'll try to get it for you, Blake, for your Christmas stocking.
There's also a great "flip" book that does about ten thousand Shakespearean insults. WAAAY fun!! Recommended for teens!!
"Why do you think it's cool to foster a dirty and twisted mind?"
Because most normal peep's behavior is BO-RING.
On a serious note- Re/Search Press published a book called "Pranks" many years ago- yes, it is about pranks, but after reading it, I truly consider it to be a philosophy book. A fine one at that.
As to your greater appreciation of a "mooning"- to me, getting mooned means having to look at the "hairy starfish", pudenda, etc. G-ROSSS!!! What would your gramma think?!?!
Dude, when you ride by me, just throw the shocker. (Mooning is illegal too...)
Hello Kitty Wave LOL. I did think he was going to break out the shocker though.
Not true about all harley riders. Most of my brothers wave at all bikes no matter what they are. And not the one finger salute either.
If we are in a small pack 4 or 5 we wave. Not in a larger pack because the pack goes off hand signals. Don't want to mistake any kind of wave for direction change or instructions.
Some of us will do a big over the top wave. Hand over head fingers apart. It's funny to see the look on the person's face going the other way, when bikers on harley's(and me), gave them a big howdy wave.
>>> Because most normal peep's behavior is BO-RING.
Should our overriding concern really be that the behavior of others should keep us entertained?
At least a limerick involves some creative effort. I can appreciate that. I'd not broadcast them on YouTube, or tack them onto the office cork board, but their is worthy substance with intelligent creativity there. Ever attempt authoring your own?
Thankfully, I've never seen a mooning as intimately displayed as you describe. From your description maybe you might ought to stop hanging around that "particular" type of bar; don't confuse a good mooning with a personal audition. Seriously though, given the imagery that the "shocker" invokes, aren't you being hypocritical?
Or are you really not so much a fan of sick and twisted as you pretend?
I see Brumbear is a big fan of the late Steve Irwin. But Brumby, the name of his show was "The Croc Hunter."
"Should our overriding concern really be that the behavior of others should keep us entertained?"
No, but we should be concerned that some folks' sensibilities are so delicate as to be SOOO offended by the shocker...
It's truly disappointing, to me, to see such a loss of humor along with the ability to "take things with a grain of salt"...
More than that, depressingly sad.
BTW Blake- in your recent research of the "shocker", Grumps properly updated the lexicon with the "Spocker". (There's actually a T-shirt with both, adding about 3 or 4 other configurations of the finger.)
I'm not Generally amused by the Humor found in someone "Throwing up the shocker" Not offeneded but just not amused either! With that said I did find myself giving a little chuckle when seeing this pic! Guess I was just suprised that Someone that is such a High profile person like Erik would have the Nerve to pose with it! But now that I think about, He is if not anything a True Rebel!
1 It's a stupid hand gesture. 2 It's not a big deal if someone wants to use it 3 It by far is not the most offensive thing I've seen on bad web. 4 This site is about as family oriented as a kegger. 5 I like making useless lists. 6 I prefer the devil horns. 7 Go Bears 8 Throwing up said sign does make you look like a jack ass 90% of the time. 9 I like it better than the "duces" (sidways backwards peace sign Blake) and the pouted lips.
Jeez.... I didn't think my little pic would cause such a rukus. I certainly didn't mean to offend anyone and if I did...well, don't watch any TV, there's WAAAY more offensive stuff on there. Most of it on the news. And we won't even talk about this internet.
That was only one of the two 'goofy' pics and seeing the whole pic, my hand isn't even big enough to make out. I zoomed it. You can't even see me in the other one. What you also can't see is that it was about 30deg out there and the wind was strong. We were freezing.
I think GeForce said it all. The Commander said "everybody do something", so we did. We work hard and we play hard. Everyone in that picture does extraordinary things, serious things, some that are very nerve racking, some unpleasant, some that have a direct impact on a lot of people's lives. And most of these things we do, we cannot tell.
And I didn't show you what the Commander was doing to the First Sergeant!
You just never know, I guess. Count me as one who was amused and not offended. Since you are in uniform it may not have been the best choice but hey, if they can't take a joke.........you know the rest. I'm at Andrews - are you home or deployed? Either way - stay safe man
Tbolt, No offense as to I believe Wolf is right in his statement above. Hell next time shoot the "the bird" lets see how many people that rubs the wrong way!
A few riders have given me the shocker as their nearly-obligatory wave as passing by. I never thought anything of it, and have known about the shocker's meaning for many years before I started riding. If you honestly think a rider or the servicemember in the photo above has your "pink" or "stink" in mind when making the gesture, you're the pervert.
It's just a wave people.. it doesn't mean anything without a context.
Does anyone honestly think that he had any type of moral "deviancy" on his mind when this picture was taken?