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Azdr is right!!! I thought when you measured, you started from the base of the tallywacker. While he's 'big,' he's starting the measurement from his scrotum. In any case it's all pretty much academic for me. I like large tallywackers mainly from an aesthetic viewpoint. They are awfully 'purty' to look at. But I'm a top. I wouldn't even let a guy who was underendowed like me top me-much less a guy with one of these monsters. Gman

N2T4M-I think your rarefied experiences are coloring your viewpoint. For the majority of us, Tex is huge. If he's really 9 in., he almost is twice as long as I am. Gman

Was Gavin the guy who at one time had a white partner, and they escorted together? If so-I thought he had quit escorting for massage. I tried to get together with him once two or three years ago. But he told me he didn't escort anymore. There was a bodybuilder in NYC who advertised on and off for years although I don't think I've seen his ad for a year or two. He may have lived on Long Island-or maybe not. I was interested. But I don't think he had any reviews. Or if he did, none in a long time. Plus he never really changed his pictures for years, so I was a bit leery. I contacted him once to ask about the pictures. He replied back that he looked the same. So he didn't need to. Gman

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When did Sean retire? I saw his ad as recently as two or so months ago? Gman

Well yes, I've got multiple nieces and one nephew, so I've seen clamped cords. And I'll agree you are right about the clamping/cutting and about it not making a difference, funguy. But wouldn't you think that in an earlier epoch cords were most likely tied off and and then cut? Gman

Mike-do you have any ideas why Australian, UK, and Irish singers often (but not always) seem to lose their native accents while singing and sound more like Americans/Canadians? For example Olivia Newton-John in many of her songs I wouldn't say she sounds particularly Australian. Dusty Springfield-UK. Ronan Keating-Ireland. Keith Urban-Australia. Obviously not all-I could probably pick the Beatles as English. Helen Reddy maybe I could pick her out as Australian-etc. Gman

You might be right. But I guess we'd need some natural bodybuilders for comparison. Gman

Do you get a jolt from having it manipulated? Gman

I am belly button jolt free. Maybe I need some-- http://previewcf.turbosquid.com/Preview/2014/05/23__01_25_35/jolt.jpgDE9230AC-A8EB-44F7-9BD1F6715447D5BC.jpgLarger.jpg To spark a connection!! Gman

I have a potbelly, but I've always been an innie even when I was skinny ( some few years before The Flood if I'm remembering correctly. Yes, I'm antediluvian!!). Could it be we don't notice outies on us full-figured guys because our bellies roll over the button. Gman

So I notice that the Forum is filled with frivolous posts. And I wanted to drag it back-whether kicking and scream or not-to something serious. And that serious topic is BELLY BUTTONS!! I notice that a lot of muscular guys, especially bodybuilders, often have outies. I was wondering whether you had to be an outie to be a bodybuilder to begin with-maybe only outies have the proper genetics. Or I was wondering whether developing your abdominals caused the former innies to convert to outies. And I guess an outie might also be a sign you've developed a hernia from straining so much to lift heavy weights. But I'm not talking about humongous abdominal/umbilical hernias-just normal innies and outies. And finally if outies are due to developing your abdominals, and if you stop working out as much, do the outies revert back to innies? http://cbsnews1.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/r/2011/07/13/a7596496-a643-11e2-a3f0-029118418759/resize/640x360/d5183103a722252bd7a223dc1f6bbe5f/bellybuttonsurgery.jpg Gman

To make sure I understand - there's virtually no difference but enough of one that people who speak the 'standard,' I'm assuming people who use the 'Amsterdam' dialect can hear it? I remember my German TA in first year German. A lot of German words end in -ig. In her dialect they pronounce it as we do. Technically it should be more pronounced as -ich with the 'ch' being that hard, breathy German 'ch' and not our 'ch' in ch-imney. Funny story. There was a not too bright girl in my 1st year college German. I can't remember if she was in my second year or not. If this incident occurred in my second year class, it's even worse. Oh and if anyone is upset at me calling her a girl, I would also refer to the other males in the class as guys -so I have a tendency to not use the terms men and women for my college classmates. Anyway the girl was not too bright. But she actually had mentioned she was thinking of majoring in German. I used to cringe when I heard that because she wasn't very good. So one day in our lab class, the TA who was Swiss mentioned William Tell. This classmate of mine said, "Oh, I think I've heard of him. " I just stared. I mean I don't know what percentage of college students know about him today. But when I was a child watching reruns of Disney or Merrie Melodies Cartoons-wasn't William Tell a fairly common theme for them to make a joke of? I can almost picture a Bugs Bunny cartoon with him shooting an apple off of Elmer or Porky Pig. And then at home we had a book of children's stories which told about him. Gman PS. There were also some not very bright guys in my class. But I can't remember any particularly stories about them. The 'William Tell' incident has remained stuck in my memory because of how unbelievable I found it.

We say er too with the r drawn out usually. But it's more of a 'put on'. I mean when we say er, we deliberately say it and know we are saying it whereas umm is more of a natural, unconscious utterance. The umlaut u isn't really that hard. For all the German umlauts pretty much you make the sound as you might in English but you round up and purse your lips. The umlaut u-is kind of like saying ew but through rounded, pursed lips. With the umlaut a I'd say you pronounce a as in apple and round your mouth without much rounding of your lips. For the umlaut o, say o as in hope but round and purse your lips again like for the u. Gman

Does it help if you 'round' your mouth like you were puckering up for a big fake kiss while still trying to pronounce it as ou in ouch? Gman

And intermediately from French. Gman

Krank means sick or ill. Schwester means sister. And Haus means of course house. So sick-sister = nurse and sick-house =hospital. The Swiss German word for hospital is Spital which I'm assuming is related to our word and ultimately comes from the Latin hospes = guest. Gman

There were several male German TA's at my University. One was married and I think one had dated a female TA for awhile. Of course that doesn't mean they were straight. But I'm thinking they were. And I took an intensive Spanish course one summer at Dartmouth-the Rassias Language Institute. Lots of males as instructors. Aside from some of them being married to women, I don't think any of them really pinged my gaydar. But maybe they were just being discrete. Gman

I am nowhere near fluent in German. And if any native speakers of Dutch or German think differently I will gladly concede, but I doubt in general that they could understand each other very well at all except for maybe the Germans/Dutch/Belgiums living right near the borders of Holland, Germany, and Belgium. I'm betting their native dialects might be more understandable in those regions. Dutch is pronounced very differently and the words have changed a lot in spelling compared to standard German. Gman

Devil's Island!! Gman

That was ausgezeichnet!!! Gman

And there is my experience of actually working with educated Brazilians-they even went to college together-where one of them was fine understanding and speaking Spanish and the other just about had no clue. Gman

There are pluses and minuses for hiring native speakers. If they do get hired, they need to know their own languages grammar from an analytical standpoint. Otherwise they can't really explain things to students when there are questions. Gman

Geoffrey seems to agree with you about bad accents. "There was also a nun, a PRIORESS, Who, in her smiling, modest was and coy; 120 Her greatest oath was but "By Saint Eloy!" And she was called Madam Eglantine. Very well she sang the service divine, Intoning through her nose, becomingly; And she spoke French fairly and fluently, 125 After the school of Stratford-at-the-Bow, For French of Paris style she didn't know." Gman