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For Fuck-You Friday, a supremely hunky high-macho silver fox, who came to me on my Pinterest feed this morning under the title Bearded Vagabond:

Linguistic interest: just the oxymoronic slogan BE FUCKING POLITE. The injunction to be polite, with the impolite modifier fucking in it. Plus, of course the finger

This exact image appears billions of time on the net, on Pinterest, Tumblr, Flickr, and Twitter pages, mostly coded for beard, tattoos, and men’s fashion (it’s the leather suspenders). The slogan and the finger seem to get less attention.

Nowhere in any of this have I found an identification of the model or the photographer.

[Addendum: identification of the model and the source of his clothes in a follow-up posting “Yesterday’s hot guy”.]

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