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

Sep 03, 2010 12:26

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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cultural context, iffy isomorphisms, metro, homosexuality, 99 and 44/100ths percent pure, commuting, not entirely clear on the idea, double entendres, work

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suegypt September 3 2010, 18:50:16 UTC
O HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!

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

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bec_87rb September 3 2010, 19:28:04 UTC
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.

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chhinnamasta September 3 2010, 21:17:46 UTC
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?"

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bec_87rb September 3 2010, 23:33:42 UTC
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.

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uplinktruck September 4 2010, 14:47:35 UTC
Some people have absolutely no sense of humor. Unfortunately those with no sense of humor want to mess it up for the rest of us.

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