Feats of Manliness

This is what just happened. This is a true story. I am not making this up.

One of my sons made the claim that he could rip a phone book in half. He made this claim to his older brother and his father. Men being men, they called him on it, handing him the brand new phone book to test his manly strength against.

Men being men, they did not offer encouraging words while he strained against the phone book. They did not let him off the hook. They did not worry that he’d pull a muscle or pass out. I did those things because I am not a man.

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I watched my youngest child strain against the pure mass of the phone book, his skin turning red, every muscle outlined and pumped, and all I felt was nervousness. My husband and my older son laughed and mocked him; gently, but they mocked him.

Men being men, my younger son took this in stride. He grinned, he made jokes, and he kept at it. He ripped the phone book in half. While I shouted praise and amazement, my husband and other son simply grinned and nodded, and said, “Do it again.”rippingbookapart.jpg

He did do it again. Twice more.

Then my husband did it.

Men. Why do they do it? Why do they perform random feats of manliness and why do women watch them do it?

And where do I get another phone book?

What manly feats float your boat? Nascar? Wrestling? Football? Construction work?

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68 Responses to “Feats of Manliness”

  1. ashefrog on 16 Apr 2007 at 7:57 am #

    Oh my my!!

    I love martial arts. I love men or women but mostly men going hand to hand in battle. I love watching the athletic strength and grace involved.

    Construction workers….once in high school I dated a guy I met over the summer who was working on a crew building a house in our neighborhood. He would work in jean cutoffs and work boots. He was the sexiest thing I ever saw. I finally got up enough nerve to talk to him and we ended up dating all summer. He was very sweet and totally unaware of how good looking he really was.

    Memories……..nothing like a little stroll down memory lane to get your juices flowing on a Monday morning.

  2. Julia London on 16 Apr 2007 at 8:08 am #

    I grew up on a ranch. I haven’t seen men wrestle calves to the ground in a long time, but just the memory of it makes my pulse race. Cowboys — the real kind — float my many boats.

  3. Julia London on 16 Apr 2007 at 8:09 am #

    Oh, p.s…..I am a huge football fan–of the uniforms and the game!!

  4. Julia London on 16 Apr 2007 at 8:11 am #

    P.S.S. Claudia, is that your son??!?! Hubba, hubba! I’m slobbering over here!

  5. Susan K on 16 Apr 2007 at 8:11 am #

    I love NHL hockey! Even though my team sucks and have still not made it into the play-offs. What can I say? I’m loyal.

  6. Karen Rose on 16 Apr 2007 at 8:15 am #

    Swimmers … Don’t know why, but watching men swim the butterfly makes me swoon. All those rippling back muscles and the “swimming trunks.” And the water running off all that skin when then get out of the pool…

    Oh yeah.

    I used to swim the IM when I was a teen. I was TERRIBLE, but oh-baby was the view worth the humiliation! Is this an Olympic year? Please-o-please?

    Fun topic, Claudia!!!

  7. Kasey on 16 Apr 2007 at 8:27 am #

    Sorry, the Summer Olympics are next year. I remember this because they always land in an even year.

    I agree with cowboys and football players and I am going to add basketball players in the mix. I like watching their arms in those sleevless shirts and their legs in the shorts. It’s too bad they went to the longer shorts. I also love a baseball player in uniform. I guess I have a thing for athletes.

  8. Karen Hawkins on 16 Apr 2007 at 9:04 am #

    Claudia, I had to laugh about your son. SUCH a great how-men-communicate scene. My son is 16 and I hear him and his friends doing Man Talk all of the time. It usually involves challenging each other to do stupid things, some of which could be deadly. I am forever saying, “Do it and you’ll be grounded.” Sheesh! I shudder to think what they might do without someone there to sqealch their enthusiasm to see each other in the ER. The last one had to do with riding on the hood of a car at 60 mph, and if a guy could “really hang on” or not.

    ACK!

    For me, the manly pursuit I love to watch: Brett Farve playing football. I love him. I love that he gets beaten up and broken and yet grins and comes back for more. I love that he’s not classically handsome, but rough and tough and MANLY. Oh yeah. I just love Brett Farve. *happy sigh*

  9. Claudia Dain on 16 Apr 2007 at 9:12 am #

    Julia, nope, not my son! Sorry! LOL

    Karen Rose, you will DIE to know that I am married to a swimmer, butterfly and backstroke were his main events. Hubba, hubba, yousa! I still get all tingly watching him swim.

    Kasey, I’m with you. There is something so sexy about watching a man inhabit his body so well, the grace and strength, the poise…you know what I’m talking about. When a guy is talking and looks totally relaxed and then, bam, catches a ball. I melt. It would take all my concentration to catch a ball!

    Ashefrog…construction workers, yeah. I love watching men work! I could watch them all day long. And have. And will again.

  10. Karen Rose on 16 Apr 2007 at 9:18 am #

    Oh mannnn, whine…. I gotta wait another *year* to watch the swimmers?

    SusanK - I agree on NHL hockey - especially since they instituted helmet laws awhile back. Mouth guards are good too, lol. There’s something elegantly elemental about men playing ice hockey. There’s finesse in the footwork, then somebody gets hard checked into the boards … What nice thoughts to start my day!

  11. Nicole Jordan on 16 Apr 2007 at 9:20 am #

    LOL, Claudia! Luckily my dh has grown past that Me-Tarzan-King-of-Jungle stage. And I have to admit, I don’t find many “manly” feats sexy… certainly not Nascar or wrestling. And even though I enjoy watching football and basketball, sexy is not how I would decribe them. And I’ve worked too many contruction sites myself to find those guys at all titiliating. I’m more of the “cerebral admiration” kind of woman.

    Maybe swimmers. I certainly enjoyed seeing Daniel Craig in the beach scene in Casino Royale!

    NicoleJ

  12. Karen Rose on 16 Apr 2007 at 9:20 am #

    Claudia, a few days ago you said your hubby was “kickin’ hot.” I’m not surprised that he’s a swimmer! They’re an underappreciated group of athletes. I’m talking tiny swimtrunks, girls. Nobody but a male swimmer can pull off a Speedo. That’s all I’m sayin’.

  13. Claudia Dain on 16 Apr 2007 at 9:29 am #

    KarenR, LOL. Swimmers, yum. And they’re the only group of men who can wear a Speedo and not look ridiculous.

    My husband was in a swim meet, swimming full tilt boogie and started to feel his Speedo slip down his hips…and then his legs…and then OFF. What’s a man to do but keep swimming?

    He finished his race and behind him, to the delight of the crowd, were his Speedos, floating in the lane behind him.

    The girls loved it. My husband grinned and waved to the crowd, and then left the pool with one of those itsy bitsy white gym towels around his hips.

    True story. I swear.

  14. Julia London on 16 Apr 2007 at 9:29 am #

    Kasey, baseball players do it to me, too. Maybe because my DH is–well, was–a baseball player. They’re big, they’re strong, they can run and hit balls hurtling at them and catch them while leaping through the air. Oh yeah, baby…

  15. gannon on 16 Apr 2007 at 9:34 am #

    Football players definitely float my boat. Nothing like a firm butt in those uniform pants! ;) My dh played football in high school, but had one knee injury too many to play in college. Maybe that’s why I love football playin’ men so much. :)

    I have 2 sons and I shudder to think of what they and their friends dare each other to do when no adult is listening. Of course, it doesn’t help when my husband tells crazy stories about the things he did in high school and college–most of them somewhat dangerous and all of them stupid! Must be something about that Y chromosome that makes them do these things. :)

  16. gannon on 16 Apr 2007 at 9:36 am #

    OMG, Claudia! That is completely hilarious! I don’t know many men that could have pulled that off with such panache. Good for him!

  17. Karen Rose on 16 Apr 2007 at 9:42 am #

    Claudia, I nearly choked on my shredded wheat. Gasp. What a funny story!! I’m assuming this was years ago, before the advent of cell phone cameras or your DH would be an internet star by now!

  18. Karen Hawkins on 16 Apr 2007 at 10:05 am #

    Oh Claudia, the ‘oh well, who needs speedos anyway’ story is hysterical! And so GUY-LIKE!

    I love swimmers. And bicyclers. I had SUCH a thing for Lance Armstrong’s ass. Still do, in fact! Biker THIGHS are just AWESOME.

  19. KMB25 on 16 Apr 2007 at 10:44 am #

    Wow…I didn’t know that guys actually would try and succeed at ripping apart phone books.

    By the way…my apartment has like 30…you can have one of mine if you’d like Claudia…although, how a Nashville phone book would help, I’m not so sure!

    Maybe it’s also my luck, but whenever I see construction workers, they’re ususally not-so-good looking…or they may have been…100-150 pounds earlier.

    For me, it’s men in uniforms…mmmm mmmm yummy! There’s just something about a man in a uniform that makes my knees go weak (among other body parts…hehe)…I met a few firemen while playing a St. Patty’s day concert in Dayton, OH and man…they were hot hot hot!!! (very yummy eye candy…sooooo made my day!)

    ~Kim

  20. TheNightPoet on 16 Apr 2007 at 10:59 am #

    haha My brother had a moment of manly feats. lol One of his friends, Jason, came over one summer a couple of years ago to hang out. Anyway, for some reason him and Jason were in the backyard, chilling on the roof of one of our sheds. Brian, my brother, wanted to prove he was a “manly man” and jump off the roof. (keep in mind it’s not as high as you might think) So he stood up and jumped. He was and still is quite proud of himself that he did it. His only mistake? He landed without bending his knees, so every once in a while, his knees bother him. lol

    As for what I like, I’ll agree that swimmers or just seeing guys in their trunks with their bare chest exposed is nice and hot. Yummy! lol But I can’t think of a certain sport that makes me drool. I’ll let you all know if I do. ;)

    Andrea

  21. KMB25 on 16 Apr 2007 at 11:04 am #

    Karen, I can see your point about bikers….with the yummy tushkins…but I can’t get over the fact that they wear tight spandex…

    That seems wrong on so many levels….and a little bit creepy.

    Now swimmers….mmmmm…I can definitely agree with everyone there!

    ~Kim

  22. cookeemama on 16 Apr 2007 at 11:08 am #

    I love all the contact sports. All that sweating, grunting and manly macho-ness. My latest passion is watching bull riding on Versus channel every weekend. One cowboy vs 2000 lbs of honking mean bull. And those chaps showcase the goodies quite nicely. I love the guys in the PBR. My grandchildren laugh at me because I’m so addicted to watching. What do they know? They like scrawny rappers.

  23. darlingbeachgirl on 16 Apr 2007 at 11:19 am #

    Surfers were my down fall at least back in the day. I have always had a thing though for the bad boy devil may care cocky guys. Oh and a thing for guys in uniform my husband played high school football and then he went into the military (army) and became military police so I had the perfect guy dangerous and in uniform. Although I do find nothing sexier then a guy standing there in a with their arms out stretched leaning against something with that sexy cocky grin on in a pair of relaxed fit blue jeans and nothing else heck any kind of jeans and it helps if their hair just fall into their eyes (still a sucker for long hair) construction workers aren’t really my thing basically cause my dad and brothers are all cw but their friends weren’t bad looking before my hubby

  24. Sabrina Jeffries on 16 Apr 2007 at 11:20 am #

    Don’t go for the athletes myself, but I do like a guy in uniform. And yes, I go for construction workers when they’re cute. There’s nothing like a shirtless guy slaving away in the sun to turn me on. My critique partner used to say that her ideal guy was a college-educated carpenter, and I have to agree. Something about that combination of brains and machismo is just breathtaking.

    Oh, and I do love a guy on a horse. :-)

  25. darlingbeachgirl on 16 Apr 2007 at 11:23 am #

    Oh and a famous quote from my dad when any of the boys did something stupid or macho.”ITS NOT FUN TILL SOMEONE GOES TO THE MEDICAL CENTER” many a day this was shouted before someone broke twisted bruised or scraped up something

  26. Ronlyn on 16 Apr 2007 at 11:33 am #

    I’ll watch pretty much anything that makes a man’s muscles bulge and glisten with sweat. :)
    There is a saying at my house though, actually my sister (who is 10 inches taller than me started it.) Ronlyn/Mommy is delicate. If she gets hurt EVERYONE is in trouble. LOL. (This started after my then teenage sister picked me up and tossed me onto the sofa. I happened to smack my elbow in the process and in one of those fluke injuries it split the skin open. She felt terrible.) Even my 3 year old knows that you can’t rough house with Mommy…but she enjoys watching it.

  27. gannon on 16 Apr 2007 at 11:34 am #

    Darlingbeachgirl, I’m totally with you on the uniform attraction. As I said earlier, my dh played football in high school and then went to the Naval Academy. Oh my, when I went to his graduation and saw all those young men in their dress white uniforms….yummmm! Just makes my heart go pitter patter thinking about it. Of course, I get to see my own “officer and a gentleman” anytime I want….in uniform and out! :)

  28. Kasey on 16 Apr 2007 at 11:39 am #

    Sabrina - I agree with you. I love a guy on a horse too. Sometimes I go to the rodeo just to see a guy on a horse. Of course the cowboy hat and tight jeans are nice too!

  29. Suzanne Enoch on 16 Apr 2007 at 12:24 pm #

    Firefighters and cowboys. And guys who are really good with a sword. I love the way the body and the weapon flow together. Darn, now I’m going to have to watch “Lord of the Rings” again. And maybe go see “300″. Again.

    Ooh, and dancer/athletes, like the “Stomp” or “Tap Dog” guys. So graceful.

  30. Aimee on 16 Apr 2007 at 12:25 pm #

    Your telling me when I can get him to put his uniform on (he blew out his knee) so he couldn’t re-enlist but yummy yummy when he puts it on he does it every once in awhile to make sure he hasn’t lost his figure

  31. darlingbeachgirl on 16 Apr 2007 at 12:38 pm #

    lol oops aimee is also me and that was for gannon

  32. Claudia Dain on 16 Apr 2007 at 12:39 pm #

    Guys with swords! Why didn’t I think of this?! No wonder I’m happy to watch LOTR again and again and again. Just watching Aragorn reach for his sword….

    And about construction guys, it only works if they’re good-looking. No argument. But in that vein, I love to watch my husband work a post-hole digger or haul big bags of grass seed, you know, the modern lawn warrior.

  33. Teresa Medeiros on 16 Apr 2007 at 12:44 pm #

    Soldiers! My daddy was a soldier and I always thought he looked so handsome in his uniform as a child. Well, I went to an Army Reserves promotion ceremony for a friend this weekend and the minute we walked in the building and I saw the men in uniform, my eyes lit up and I thought, “Ooooh, soldier guys!”

  34. Jenni on 16 Apr 2007 at 12:57 pm #

    Ha1 Men (and boys) are so funny sometimes. Ok, most times, really. Best of luck finding a new phone book!

  35. Karen on 16 Apr 2007 at 1:16 pm #

    Football players!!!! love those uniforms especially Black & Gold (Steelers)! Men in gold stretch pants make me pant! Definitely gonna miss Joey Porter this year but I still have Big Ben #7 and he only 24 yrs old to make me pant and do my heavy breathing! DH is retired Air Force/Army…fell in love w/the AF Blue and his white Medic uniform! Whoopeeeeee!

  36. Kasey on 16 Apr 2007 at 1:24 pm #

    Oh Lord of the Rings! My favorites! Aragorn is so hot. And Legalos with his elf acrobatics - Did you see him climb that oliphant (elephant) and take him down. Wow! Then there is Faramir. I just wanted to hug him when his father was so cruel. The tortured soldier. Now I want to go home and watch Lord of the Rings.

    Of course there are always Pirates too. I love Orlando Bloom and Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean as well! They are also very good with their swords.

  37. Claudia Dain on 16 Apr 2007 at 1:29 pm #

    Jenni, thanks! I keep trying to remember if I used the phone book at all last year…hmm, can I go a whole year without a phone book?

    Once the phone book had been shredded, I said to my husband, “So what do we now about not having a phone book?”

    He said: “We’ll just get another one.”

    Me: “Where?”

    Him: “Well, where did you get the last one?”

    Me: “THEY DELIVER IT TO THE HOUSE!”

    Him: “oh.”

    Men being men….

  38. Kasey on 16 Apr 2007 at 1:31 pm #

    Usually the telephone numbers listed online now. My favorite website to use is anywho.com. It is powered by AT&T. They even have reverse phone look up which I have found to be helpful before.

  39. Claudia Dain on 16 Apr 2007 at 1:37 pm #

    So, Kasey, you can plug in “plumbers” and get a list of locals? That would be so much nicer than having to store the colossal phone book.

  40. Kasey on 16 Apr 2007 at 1:43 pm #

    Yes - just select yellow pages at the top and then type in the business category with city and state and ta-da. You get a list of plumbers in your area. I use this site frequently yellowpages.com.

  41. Kasey on 16 Apr 2007 at 1:44 pm #

    Sorry, I am leaving out words today. I use both anywho.com and yellowpages.com. They are both good sites.

  42. colinfirthfan on 16 Apr 2007 at 1:52 pm #

    Swimmers have awesome bods.

    I too love watching sports. I am a HUGE soccer fan. Love watching the European league and took off from work to watch my favourite teams for the world cup. I watch basketball, football, summer/winter olympics, tennis and cricket.
    :-)

    My 6 yr old and 3 yr old are into monster trucks and NASCAR so they watch it and update me every 30 seconds on Tony Stewart.
    *groan*

  43. Claudia Dain on 16 Apr 2007 at 2:28 pm #

    Colinfirthfan…Cricket?! Okay, explain the mystique of cricket. That is one sport I have yet to figure out. But I love the outfits. LOL

  44. Sabrina Jeffries on 16 Apr 2007 at 3:08 pm #

    OMG, Claudia, I was LOL at your rendition of a discussion with your husband about where the phone book came from. That sounds just like him!

    My middle-aged husband is semi-aware of where the phone book comes from, and he wouldn’t tear one in half, BUT a few years ago, some guys in the neighbourhood came and asked him to help them lift a cast-iron tub onto a second floor balcony from the ground. They thought that if they all lifted it together they could get it up there. So he AGREED and went to help them!!! (Without my knowledge, I might add–he was outside doing yard work when it happened). I don’t know if they succeeded, but he came into the house clutching his chest, and I got most of the story out of him as we rushed him to the hospital, thinking he was having a heart attack.

    The doctor said it was just over-exertion. And that he was a little too old to be lifting cast-iron tubs over his head with a group of crazy men who were probably all way younger than he. Men!!!

  45. Claudia Dain on 16 Apr 2007 at 3:21 pm #

    You can never get a man to admit that he can’t do some physical thing. Ever.

    It’s kind of like a woman being forced to admit that she needs a bigger size in clothes. It’s that stupid dry cleaners fault every time.

  46. Karen Hawkins on 16 Apr 2007 at 3:22 pm #

    Men with swords … (drool) Men in uniform … (pant) … Men on a horse (drool AND pant) …

    That does it. Apparently Napoleon is my Dream Date and I didn’t even know it.

  47. colinfirthfan on 16 Apr 2007 at 3:29 pm #

    Cluadia, cricket is awesome if the teams playign have a good rivalry going.
    I only watch the international matches and I only watch the “one -day” matches. They have 5 days matches but that is VERY slow so I have no patience for it.
    One days are much better and fast paced.:)

    I guess you feel about cricket the way I feel about watching baseball and golf.
    ;-)

  48. Claudia Dain on 16 Apr 2007 at 3:41 pm #

    I think the problem with cricket and American audiences is that we don’t get it. Golf is another game I don’t get. LOL Must be because it’s a Scottish invention, huh?

    Now, baseball is great, but nothing beats ice hockey for pure adrenalin and speed. It’s one of my favorite spectator sports, even if I have to work hard to keep track of the puck.

    Napolean, KarenH? You are a woman of rare tastes…and I don’t mean that in a good way.

  49. Judy on 16 Apr 2007 at 4:28 pm #

    Karen, wouldn’t you want to add tall? I’m just saying *G*

    I have to agree with Teresa, Soldiers……*going glassy eyed* yum…

    And as for swimmers, I never had a thing for them until I watched the movie “The Covenent”….OMG!!
    Thise bods with those speedos….how can ur salvory glands stay normal?

  50. MizMacgyver on 16 Apr 2007 at 4:33 pm #

    Anything where I can see nice big bulging biceps. ::Sigh::: and I agree with the sword-play group, and I am home so I am going to go watch LOTR……. AGAIN Aragon, Legolas, wait my darlings, I am on my way!

  51. Julia London on 16 Apr 2007 at 4:38 pm #

    Claudia, too bad we don’t live in the same town. I have the History of Phone Service in Austin. Stacks of phone books in my office, in the kitchen, upstairs. Why? Because somewhere along the way, someone convinced me it was bad to throw them away, They Must Be Recycled. But you have to take them to the grocery store. So I have them going back several years and one magical day, I will have them all recycled. In the meantime, I would have plenty to share.

  52. foreverdelayed on 16 Apr 2007 at 4:47 pm #

    Scottish Highland Games.
    or as Me and my girlfriends call it
    Men in Kilts, throwing heavy objects.

    Is it getting hot in here?????

  53. Kasey on 16 Apr 2007 at 4:54 pm #

    Oooohh - How could have we forgotten the men in kilts? I think it IS getting warm in here.

  54. gannon on 16 Apr 2007 at 4:59 pm #

    Definitely men in kilts–preferably well-muscled ones with excellent legs. Maybe a breeze could kick up as well……. whew! Gotta go fan myself. :)

  55. Claudia Dain on 16 Apr 2007 at 5:14 pm #

    Hey Julia, why don’t you invite some men over to rip your phone books in half? That should at least make them easier to carry to the grocery store. *grin*

  56. Danielle on 16 Apr 2007 at 5:18 pm #

    For me it’s a construction worker on a hot day with his shirt off only if he has a six pack ab and not a beer belly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  57. DebMarlowe on 16 Apr 2007 at 5:48 pm #

    Swimmers and Swordsmen and Gymnasts, Oh my!

    Gymnasts, ladies. Both of my kids take gymnastics and oh, gracious you should see the bods on those coaches.

    Yeah, guys in kilts with swords. Yum!

  58. Claudia Dain on 16 Apr 2007 at 5:51 pm #

    DebMarlowe…guys in kilts with swords *under* their kilts…did I read that wrong? LOL

  59. Brandy on 16 Apr 2007 at 7:20 pm #

    My hubs was in the military for 10 years and seeing him in hi BDU’s with jump boots always made me want to make him late for work. *g* He’s out now, but still, when he does some sort of home improvement around the house…….YAY ME! *G*

  60. Karen Hawkins on 16 Apr 2007 at 7:39 pm #

    Ok, maybe I should have added tall. It was just funny to me that if I went by the uniform, sword, and horse alone, it COULD have been Napoleon and, well, that’s Just Wrong.

    It’s like the men in kilts thing … a techno-nerd with a receding hairline, pasty skin, and a beer-belly stomach paunch even if he’s on a horse with a sword and in a kilt … Noooo!

    First, before the trappings, gimme a guy with great muscle definition, a devilsh smile, awesome hair, and sexy eyes … in a kilt, on a train, in a plane, with a sword, inside a uniform, and with a toolbelt … or not, and I’d be one happy woman! But if it’s JUST the trappings, then it doesn’t work.

  61. Stacy S on 16 Apr 2007 at 8:14 pm #

    I’ll take any strapping, sweaty, hot guy. Not into sports or anything like that.

  62. Kelly Ann on 16 Apr 2007 at 9:45 pm #

    I don’t care for body builders, but I like a well built man, especially in a suit. Yep, call me boring, but there is just something about a well dressed sexy man, with dark hair, green eyes and a naughty smile.

    I love a man in uniform, a man in a kilt, swimmers (except men who wear speedo’s to the beach - not cool!), the new Robin Hood too! I love them tall, dark haired, blonde, blue or green eyed, funny, serious, naughty and nice. Yep, you guessed it - I love men. I even have a strange attraction to sexy nerds, they are out there and the few I’ve found were very naughty!

    It may have been easier to tell you what I don’t like - HAHA!

    OH, and I almost forgot, there is nothing like a cowboy! JOHN WAYNE - hmmmmmmmm! Gotta go now, drooling all over my keyboard.

  63. julia london on 16 Apr 2007 at 10:54 pm #

    Great idea, Claudia! All I have to tell them is that I heard of some men who did it in another state, and that’s it — they will be all over the challenge. Because of course iEVERYTHING is a competition. Thanks for the idea!

    Oh, and the story of your hubby and the speedo is classic — I laughed so hard!

  64. TheNightPoet on 17 Apr 2007 at 2:22 pm #

    haha Someone mentioned firefighters. My dad is a firefighter. lol But I will agree, those guys are hot! lol I should know, I have grown up around them for most of my life. lol Most of the ones I know really well are good friends of my dad’s. But still there are the younger ones that have come around and some of them are good looking. Their muscles are ’sigh’ yummy. lol If only my dad could hear me right now. lol

    Andrea

  65. Sabrina Jeffries on 17 Apr 2007 at 5:05 pm #

    I have to say, I go for the sexy nerds myself. Don’t know why. Lean, mean, computing machines. I dated a whole slew of them in high school and college. I had this boyfriend who was first in our class, a genius in math, played the clarinet, wore glasses . . . and had a body to die for (oh, and could he kiss!). He was the epitome of Clark Kent–strip off the clothes, take away the clarinet, and you had Superman. Yum!

  66. Patty L. on 17 Apr 2007 at 7:22 pm #

    Football. I love football. I love watching men play football. It really gets me going.

  67. dot on 17 Apr 2007 at 10:28 pm #

    I recently read an obit of the guy who holds the record for most phonebooks ripped in half (I think in a set period of time). He was a little old for me, though.

  68. darkshire007 on 23 May 2007 at 10:46 am #

    Hockey. Can you say full body contact? Everytime one of these guys gets slammed into the wall, they just keep going! Of course Boston needs to get their act together and make it to the Stanley Cup!