There is of course the sporting verb box as well as the uses above. Stephen’s Day - Boxing Day in the UK and other areas in the British culture zone - an easy source of raunchy humor.īonus boxes. So we get plays on package and box, with double entendres involving figurative package ‘male genitalia, basket’ and box ‘female genitalia, pussy’, also ‘male anus viewed as a sexual organ male buttocks’. on 12/30/15, in “Dick in a Box”, on a Saturday Night Live sketch with that title (and theme)
They’re presented as hot gay men cruising and admiring one another’s endowments - and in the case of one man, Gay 1, reaching into his neighbor’s box to handle its contents. … six naked guys in Santa caps (ohhh, Santa baby!), their genitals covered by the (Christmas) packages and boxes they’re carrying. on 12/29/15 in “boxboys and transitive bottoming” He was celebrated for his package - said to be of great size and beauty, also available to all who would use it - and his box as well, ditto. Stephen was stoned to death, on what substance we do not know. Otherwise it’s all about his remarkably overdeveloped muscles and his St. The model does seem to be wearing a thong. From Jockstraps to Wrestling Suits you will be sure to find something you love.” (#2) Ad copy: “BOXING DAY SALE – 20% OFF STOREWIDE! – Shop 600+ products from over 20 brands, in all your favorite styles. And now for something much less elevated. (But the time pressure of the question period intervened, and Ellen went on to another question.) There was laughter, and gasps of delight, and a sense that applause was on the verge of breaking out. “Oh,” Ellen said, with a small confident smile, “Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny are in footnote 37” (well, some high number) - and went on to summarize the complex footnote essay briefly and succinctly.
Partway through the question period, someone (inevitably, I suppose) asked about fictitious characters. (Compare, say, the fictional title character in Shakespeare’s play Macbeth (first published in 1623), a creation based on a fictionalized account in Holinshed’s Chronicles (1577) of the life of the actual Macbeth, King of Scotland from 1040 to 1057).įor me, a reference to Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny evokes a conference paper Ellen Prince gave many years ago, a stunning, important paper on the referential statuses of NPs in discourse. And, meanwhile, transformed by the writings of others into a different sort of fictional character, one with a written life story related in some very complex way to the life of a historical person. Upstaged by Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny. (#1) Jesus in an instance of the Psychiatrist cartoon meme (If you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the cartoon - Dan Piraro says there are 4 in this strip - see this Page) (Note: a certain amount of male flesh, crude wordplay on package and box, and lots of sacrilege. Stephen’s Day, Daily Jocks enlists a hugely overstuffed musclehunk to memorialize St. On the first day of Christmas, in a Wayno/Piraro Bizarro, Jesus seeks therapy for a life that has gotten out of his control.