Tuesday, June 3, 2008

...Yer Ribs Are Showing!

6 comments:

Ambiguous Q. Thunderwing said...

rib-visibility is one of my primary voting issues

joshua francis said...

I'm not really holding my breath for a shirts off, flank to flank comparison in this one.

Christina Spinelli said...

Is this really old? Or is it a new 'vintage-esque' comic?
Also, Josh, have you ever seen the film Beach Blanket Bingo?

joshua francis said...

This is the top half of a Charles Atlas ad from the 1940s. There are lots of them but they all follow basically the same format: a skinny guy gets picked on and embarrassed in front of some girls, goes home and gets jacked up on the Atlas program, returns to kick some ass and gets his girl back.

No, I've never seen beach blanket bingo.

Ambiguous Q. Thunderwing said...

Josh - i meant more generally, as in general attitudes towards it (like gay marriage), however taken as you took it, that is precisely why i didn't vote in the primaries

although may i say that i recall photos of a beach-bod barack obama being posted all over the internet and printed in papers. who won the primary? barack. how many photos of hillary's beach-bod have we seen? NONE, thank god.

FURTHERMORE, hillary doesn't have a good smile, and smiles win elections. and winning is everything. amen.

joshua francis said...

Scenario: Obama challenges McCain to a shirtless debate before the general election.

Outcome A: No surprise, topless McCain looks like Hyman Roth in Godfather II; Obama looks beefcake in comparison and takes the general election in a landslide.

Outcome B: On the night of the debate McCain reveals his secret weapon - an absurdly chiseled Iggy Pop bod complete with low slung girl jeans and a necklace strung with some poor Vietcong soldier's teeth. America is alternately repulsed and fascinated; Obama concedes victory rather than suffer through another month of McCain referring to him as "that flabby pussy."