Charlie

"Listen, my children, and you shall hear Of the Midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the 18th of April, in Seventy-five, Hardly a man is now alive, Who remembers that famous day and year." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

To me it suggests a 22 year old's fantasy.

For those who like correlations, can anyone explain why the gay males on both sides of my family are named "Fred" (except me)?

Aww, that poor kid with the deformed cock. The other kid is probably trying to comfort him.

It is pretty hard to say definitively whether the fact that the men in the study are gay and happen to have older brothers is related to biological, psychological, or sociological causes, or is simply a random mathematical relationship that piques the curiosity of those who want to know why some men are gay and others aren't. BTW: The only gay males I know of in my family are me, an only child of older parents; my father's first cousin, the only child of young parents; and my second cousin, the older brother of a straight younger brother, born 18 years later--but born between them was a lesbian sister. So go figure.

Of interest to me also: I was an only child, and my parents were 39/37 when I was born.

My spouse is the oldest of four brothers; he and the next oldest are both gay. The two younger brothers are the straight ones. I always found it interesting that the two older brothers had a much stronger physical resemblance to one another than to the younger brothers, while the two younger brothers strongly resembled one another. A stranger seeing a photo of the four of them together as adults is usually surprised that they are all children of the same parents. The older two look more like their mother (small and slender), while the younger two look like their father (big football linemen).

Yesterday I was playing tennis with an elderly white married couple from L.A. whom I have known for several years, who spent much of the time between games reminiscing about their social experiences with O.J. before the murders. They thought he was an extremely pleasant and intelligent man, and were shocked by the murders, although they had no trouble accepting the claim that he was guilty.

"Musky" can be an attractive or unattractive odor, depending on who is doing the smelling. One specific dictionary meaning is the smell of "unwashed human genitalia after sex." People sometimes fail to distinguish between "musky" and "musty," which usually refers to something that has become smelly from being left uncleaned for a long time.

His ad includes "manscent" and "armpits," so I'm guessing that he is actually pushing those aspects for clients who might have a fetish for someone who smells "like a man" rather than deodorized or perfumed; in several of his photos he appears obviously sweaty. But you are correct that "musky" usually has a negative connotation (unclean and unaware of the fact), especially in Black society.

And how do you explain those stains to the other people in the office?

I believe that the only majority Muslim country I have ever been to with my partner was Morocco, and it was when a gay friend decided to throw a landmark-birthday bash for himself and friends and family from all over the world, and chose to do it in Marrakesh. He booked a couple of riads for his guests, who naturally included a number of male couples, 2 to a room. The riad and restaurant hosts seemed fine with that. Of course, the party wasn't exclusively male or gay, and many of the guest couples were middle-aged to elderly, which may have made a difference in their attitude to the group.

I misread this as "Start licking your penises good-bye," and I panicked for a moment.

If anyone decides this topic is worthy of a photo gallery, I won't be watching.

We are a middle income couple, but strangely enough, our experience this year is different. We usually owe the feds and the state of CA, but this year we are getting refunds from both, even though our fixed income is similar to last year. I can only assume that our tax preparer found a new loophole related to our itemized deductibles, or else made an error somewhere. Addendum: I just remembered that last year we forgot to make some of the estimated tax payments, and this year we made them, so it could be as simple as that.