Archive for the ‘Language in advertising’ Category
August 18, 2018
(The Dirk Diggler section has some plain talk about men’s bodies — penises here, penises there, penises everywhere — so some readers might want to skip that section.)
Yesterday morning, the cheap men’s aftershave of the 1960s, Hai Karate, with an ad campaign that’s hard to forget (nerdy guys karate-chopping away hot models who were irrestistibly drawn to them by the powerful fumes of their Hai Karate). And then this morning, at the tail of an elaborate character-rich dream, the dream me discovered he was actually the son of Dirk Diggler, the supremely porn-named porn star character in two movies (the mockumentary The Dirk Diggler Story and the dramatic narrative film Boogie Nights).
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August 14, 2018
The Daily Jocks ad for the 13th offers frank homowear from Barcode Berlin:
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Some premium men’s underwear firms advertise to men in general (and women who buy clothes for men), though with a special pitch to gay men, but a few — among them, Barcode Berlin — aim themselves directly at a queer clientele. BB’s crop tees display attractive midriffs, and the models project muscular masculinity — solidly butch — but the tees also convey sociosexual messages in teasing and boastful ways that echo the open banter of queer men amongst themselves, acting faggy: faggy minus fem(me), butch fagginess).
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Posted in Clothing, Gender and sexuality, Language in advertising, Masculinity, Phallicity, Underwear | Leave a Comment »
August 12, 2018
In my e-mail, more Pinterest boards combining sexually hot Sterek (Stiles + Derek) slash art and remarkable hot dogs, most of them hybrids as well, as in this contribution from The BakerMama | Maegan Brown website on 9/29/16, “Grilled cheese hot dogs”:
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A brilliant combination of two classics: grilled cheese and hot dogs! A buttery crisp hot dog bun filled with lots of melted cheese [Monterey jack and cheddar] and a juicy grilled hot dog. Why choose when you can have both [understood: in the same (hybrid) dish]?
In this case, the hybrid food sounds tasty, but sometimes the hybrid is (like the spork) less satisfying than either component on its own, or even (like SNL‘s Shimmer, a floor wax and a dessert topping) an unpleasant union of incompatible elements..
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Posted in Compounds, Formulaic language, Language and food, Language in advertising, Metaphor, Portmanteaus, Slogans | 1 Comment »
July 27, 2018
(Taste alert: hunky guy in underwear, sexual double entendres. No explicit linguistics.)
(News flash: accompanying “Are You My Bottom?” posting to come soon.)
From Daily Jocks on the 23rd, with my caption:
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I Am Your Bottom
SpoJo exudes
Urgent desire
Coupled with
Anxiety verging on
Dread, while his
Fleshy buttocks
Press their own
Cheeky agenda
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June 26, 2018
(Guy in a minimal swimsuit from the Colombian company Jor, suggestive text, but nothing at all hard-core.)
The Daily Jocks sale ad yesterday, with my caption:
(#1) JOR: LATINO SPIRIT
Jor, son of Toro and Jordache
Lovingly hand-made
Lean, festive, resilient
Shines sexily in the sun
Lies proudly under Panama,
Has jungle liaisons with
Pacific Ecuador,
Caribbean Venezuela
Boasts cheekily in Bogotá
Of his tough style
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Posted in Captions, Clothing, Fashion, Language in advertising, Logos, Masculinity, Rainbow clothing, Underwear | Leave a Comment »
May 14, 2018
… at King Features Syndicate, or so it seems. In my feed today, three cartoons (of my five regulars from King) with a psychoanalyst and his couch: a Bizarro/Wayno with an empty couch; a Zippy with Zippy on the couch; and a Mother Goose and Grimm with the dog Grimm on the couch.
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Posted in Books, Comic conventions, Gender and sexuality, Jokes, Language and medicine, Language and religion, Language in advertising, Linguistics in the comics, Morphology and syntax, Phallicity, Understanding comics | Leave a Comment »
May 12, 2018
(Underwear guy, allusions to sexual practices. Imbibe with caution.)
Yesterday’s Daily Jocks ad, an “X-rated Sale” for Mothers Day weekend, with a caption of mine:
spent husk
drained from a
day in hard harness
sprawled half-conscious
tits jutting codpiece
glistening abs
huge elegant feet
hazy hint of that
hole of male delight
An odd sale offer for Mothers Day weekend, but maybe (as I’ll suggest in another posting) it’s really for Muthuhs Day. That would work.
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Posted in Captions, Holidays, Language and the body, Language in advertising, Underwear | Leave a Comment »
