[barend]

but would you prefer that or the redicoulsly massivley mouns of rock solid flesh that are....

THE LEGS OF TOM PLATZ!!!

[Icey]

Oh my god! This will get burnt into my retinas and rob me of all sleep for ever and ever and ever!!!

[Heccubus]

He looks like rotisserie chicken.

[Jane Sherwood]

(*arms fly up to sheild her eyes from the horror*)

Aaahh! That cannot be natural!

[Chyld]

What the hell? Where's his left hand? And... other things? To reiterate, what the hell?

[Madam Corvax]

The mutant turkey from Barend's post aside:

Boys, don't you understand that what is below you willie level matters not at all? You can have wooden legs, and it still does not diminish your attractiveness. If you doubt me, look at any George Clooney film and observe closely the way he walks. This guy shuffles his horribly crooked shins ans is still considered by some the most sexy guy on earth.

Whereas the lack of thin calves is a disaster for every female. You are forever banned from wearing any sort of skirt which is not floor-lenght. You can hide your ugly face behind makeup, squeeze your waist and bum, lift your boobs, frizzle your hair, but there is absolutely nothing you can do with excessive muscles tissue on your calves.

[Jane Sherwood]

Which is one of the many reasons I only wear long pants.

[Kirby]

Aye aye Madam C. But still, it makes me feel kinda weird when in the gym all the guys have waxed, shaved, frictionless legs while I have an army of hamsters covering up my legs.

PS: Jane back me up on this. Back in shakespere's time and earlyer in the mid-evil era, the man's legs were the indicater of his fertility and overall manlyness.

Where else do you think the saying "You know what they say about men with big feet" came from.

[Madam Corvax]

Feet? I though it was noses?

And in shakespeare times they were also stuffing their knickers with apples as an indicator of their manliness...

Edit... Kirby do you really worry about not waxing your legs???? I thought that was on feminist's agenda like 30 years ago, whether to shave your legs or not ???

This post has been edited by Madam Corvax: 06 April 2005 - 12:00 PM

[Jane Sherwood]

And also around that time, larger women were considered beautiful and more desired than skinny little twig-girls because their size indicated that they were wealthy and therefore well fed.

That's just not fair...I'm in a Renaissance body in the twenty-first century...

If I remember what was said in my Fine Arts class correctly, the focus on men's legs started in France with...Louis XIV, I think? As far as years and dates go, I'm lost, so I can't remember what period this was.

Anybody who's better at history, am I right or wrong?

This post has been edited by Jane Sherwood: 06 April 2005 - 12:18 PM

[Jen]

I don't know whether that's where the focus started (I would imagine it predates it), but I DO know that if you go on a tour of Versailles, when you come to this picture there is much talk on the audiotour (and possibly in the exhibit cards) of how shapely his legs are.

(And shapely they are indeed! Meeeeeeow! )

[kdogg]

He looks like rotisserie chicken.

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He does indeed. If I were a cannibal, my first meal would be bbq'd Tom Platz legs.

[SimeSublime]

I find any opinions they had questionable, seeing as they considered a mercury bath a cure for syphilis.

[SimeSublime]

I think you look more like a decadant Roman Emporer there, Barend.

[jariten]

You look more like an old skool Greek 'Mt. Olympus' type God than a Christian type God.