Our lovely swimming goddess CreamPuff, AKA, S(he)-Man, and possibly various other aliases including Jana Jameson, has come up with a sensational idea.
A USMS calendar featuring buff members of our ranks.
I will be happy to appear on the cover of this wearing an old Speedo. However, sales may be improved by other choices.
If you are at all interested in participating, please consider emailing me a photo of yourself in as compromising a view as you feel comfortable with. For some, this may mean an action shot wearing four or five stacked B70s.
For others, it may mean something entirely different.
Please be advised. Though I am not a professional photo editor myself, I know of such people. Do not worry about where your photos might end up. Do not feel "embarrassed" or "awkward" or "degraded" either. Think of me as simply that avuncular figure that appreciates the beauty of a spectacularly well-excercised body with a fine sheen of sweat thereupon!
Note to the powers that be: If the pictures are what I hope they will be, I will post the calendar on Facebook, not USMS, and I will also take the USMS title off. So please! I have not committed any crimes yet!
Don't remove this post until I actually do!
Send photos for consideration in the 2009 Masters Swimming Calendar to me by email at jamesthornton1@comcast.net and I will have my twin brother, an artistic genius and photoshop pro, put the calendar together.
CreamPuff, I must confess that you inspired the title, Wet Beauty, of my little photo assemblage. Did you happen to see the thread on banning the body suits in which your help in creating an absolutely fair and natural race between me and Blackbeard's Peg was sketched out? I figure now that I have coaxed you into giving me red suit pictures, it's only a matter of time before I can talk you into virtually anything.
That, anyhow, is my New Year's Resolution.
A true work of art.
Very entertaining. A bit risque. And yet a tad disturbing.
Loved the bathing beauties, the underwater lounge chair, and the Sistine chapel vignette.
Bravo.
A lovely collection! I must get in front of a camera rather than behind it, and perhaps I too may aspire!
The Rhinemaidens were a nice touch; the Sistine Chapel allusion was inspired. Swim-up beer, Dara by subscription... sigh. Also good to see the second generation.
Were those SHARKS?
Lot of B70s in those pics!!
Wish my picture of Hulk kissing Poolraat in Austin had come out better. That would have been a worthy addition. :D
And now everyone knows how cute Geek is. :bolt:
Wish my picture of Hulk kissing Poolraat in Austin had come out better. That would have been a worthy addition. :D
There is always the other one. :smooch:. Or did you delete it?
Yes, real sharks, and the perceptive eye might even detect the chopped heads and bodies of alewives and barracudas floating around the swirling Bahamian blue, the better to incite a feeding frenzy.
It was into this maelstrom I beat onwards, a faulty shark-repelling device--the POD, for protective oceanic device--strapped to my back, where it did not belong, instead of to a scuba tank, which I did not half.
And thus, every three seconds of so, I was delivered a full body electrocution level shock, as i swaw thru the initially panicked and later excited denizens. Perhaps the shock therapy itself kept me sane! In any event, I was so sick of the shocks, that when I swam back through the chummed up soup en route to the boat's salvation, I turned the POD off and emerged unscathed, if somewhat shrunken, in the nether regions.
Jim, you naughty boy! You still used my red obscenity outfit! But since it was soooo well done, I forgive you! Loved MKS in her flower cap; your head on Dara's butt; fabulous! :applaud::applaud::applaud: Fun to watch! What's up with the beer chugging while swimming?! I want to try that!
I figure now that I have coaxed you into giving me red suit pictures, it's only a matter of time before I can talk you into virtually anything.
:rofl: Well, you wouldn't be the first. . . :D
