With A Club Membership, There are Certain ...Benefits

[bec_87rb]

I wish I had gotten a snap of the larger more hysterically explicit1 poster in the same series, but I notice they disappeared from the metro walls soon after they came out, leaving only this come-on to football fans:

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[suegypt]

O HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!

O Lord don't anyone point this out to my FIL, he'd have a cow.

[bec_87rb]

I was amazed at the blatancy of it, because it suggested to me that it was on purpose? Like some ad guys sat down and decided that the best way to sell really really expensive Redskins box tickets was to appeal to gay men. Which suggests that lots of high-income gay men are Skins fans, maybe? I was just fascinated with what the marketing strategy on this might be.

[chhinnamasta]

HAhahaha! Whoa. Um, I know very little about football, and clearly the homoerotic subtext is there, but is being "In" football terminology? Could the "Are You In Yet?" be football lingo for some football thing other than, "are you balls-deep in the Redskins?"

[bec_87rb]

My resident Y chromosome bearer claims that "in" is not regular football terminology, or maybe, he says, it's gay football terminology. He says maybe it's ice hockey terminology? Hm, I think ice hockey has just been insulted.

[suegypt]

"In" is poker terminology, as in "I'm in."

[chhinnamasta]

Gay football terminology! I'm liking the idea that there's a completely separate gay vocab.

Isn't the ball out or in? Aren't those football guys "in the end zone" etc? Jeez, not that that phrase is without homoerotic merit. Actually, this speculation is reminding me of the time I watched the Super Bowl stoned, and laughed myself to tears over all the homoeroticism. It was virtually all I could see through my glassy eyes! The Green Bay Packers were one of the two teams, and the announcer would come up with phrases like, Packers on top!

[bec_87rb]

It's pretty gay in a butch kinda way, if you listen carefully.

You know, I think that's why pot never really took hold of me? I get into that zone where everything is funny or dirty or sideways with no chemical nudge? My brain gets bored and starts playing with what I'm seeing and hearing, and there I am, nearly rolling out of my chair.

The other day in a meeting, one of the participants is on conference phone from home where she cares for her elderly parents. Middle of the meeting, you hear "boop* *boop* *beep* *boop* and then ,"Dad is that you? Dad? I'm on the phone. Dad. Dad. Dad. I'm on the phone already, Dad." "Oh, sweetie, are you on the phone?" I got a mental movie, and in between trying not to make any noise and wanting to laugh my ass off, I ended up clutching the empty chair next to me to avoid falling over.

[chhinnamasta]

Oh, I get that way without it too. The weirdest things will strike my funny bone, my perception will shift and, suddenly, everything is seen through the funny filter. You know, I'm getting déjà vu, here. Didn't we already discuss how pot turns on, or amplifies, this pre-existing quality in people?