LJ Brain Trust - I HAZ A QWESHTON!!

[edwarddain]

Ok, so this is one of those questions I've had rattling around in the back of my brain for years - and I just picked up the novel again that had me originally asking it (something like a quarter of a century ago

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[alouicious]

well, since the british had this big thing for flabby pugalists as the ideal of masculinity until eugene sandow changed the standard for male beauty (http://www.eugensandow.com/), i believe it means he has half of his balls blue for boxers.

see what you'll learn modeling for art classes all day every day?

[sttatus_quo]

:: goes to website and melts ::

Is that man wearing a collar?

:: melts more ::

[alouicious]

a collar held by all the british women of the victorian age.
he was topping from the bottom.

i prefer the fig leaf, though. it is so natty.

[bloodbeauty]

heh, it's an award for sport, only at use at oxford and cambridge i believe, you can either get half or full blues. my school had colours, you either got half colours or full colours in a sport, which you earned by being on a winning school team for however many matches (i wasn't ever on a team so i'm a bit hazy on this)

[bloodbeauty]

as always wikipedia has an page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_Sporting_Blue

[arashinomoui]

Bah, you got to Wikipedia before I could.

[sttatus_quo]

I wonder if where the tradition of Varsity lettering in a sport got it's start? Does anyone still get Varsity sport letters any more, I wonder.

[arashinomoui]

Based on the wikipedia page - Half Blue for Boxing means that the character is probably the regional, but not national, champion for boxing in the collegiate.

In other words, he's good with his fists.

[phedre13]

and you waited a quarter of a century to ask when you had this amazing brain trust right here! :)