In this ad chewing Skoal provides a male bond that gets the guy out of a speeding ticket.
The Halloween costume below, which is produced by Playboy, is called “Sexy Scholar.”
Playboy costume features a dress with side-lacing and back zipper, collar with tie, knee-high socks, and hair ribbons.
Here’s an article with a gun vendor talking about women wanting pretty guns.
NEW (Dec ’09)! Harvey tC. sent in this photo of a set of rifles for sale at Ace Hardware in Eau Claire:
Interestingly, when you google “pink gun,” one of the first sites that comes up is Pink Pistols, a gay/lesbian gun organization.
NEW (Jun. ’10)! Jillian took this snapshot of guns for sale at Academy Sports in Oklahoma City, OK:
Click here (and then click portfolio) for before and after photos of lots of celebrities!
This one, a pair with Gwen’s earlier contribution (here), actually takes a little decoding, and so might be useful to get discussion going in a classroom:
If parentheses = suppressed text, then these parentheses = suppressed speech and, of course, the best way to be liberated from suppression is Botox… not speaking your mind.
On Size:
On Lifespan:
From the National Center for Health Statistics; National Vital Statistics System; Dora Costa, MIT; Richard H. Steckel, Ohio State University; Center on the Economics and Demography of Aging. University of California, Berkeley.
Pew Research Institute Report