A longtime reader (as in since my old Yahoo Group days), sleepycub, emailed me then proceeded to give me a massive heart attack with this awesome scan from the September 9, 2009 issue of Muscle & Fitness magazine.
Please, oh, please, disobey every single one of the 50 rules!
Who knew that Muscle & Fitness also has a discerning eye for gorgeous chubby bears? What a beautiful collection of our big-bellied beauties. And if there’s one thing I’d like to add…
Please don’t melt the flab from your abs!!!!! 😛
I mean, those guys appear to be comfortable with their bodies and they’re HOT to boot. But, of course, losing weight is a personal choice and I’m just being a selfish person for wanting them to stay the way they are. But, in my defense:
Here’s another commercial utilizing sumo wrestlers in front of a white background. It’s from a Christian website called Conversant Life. You can check out the whole series of the commercial here.
Can someone correct me if I’m wrong? I believe that the cute chubby bear on the left is Tim Larson. He was the lead hero in a straight-to-DVD movie called 305 (check out the trailer here). I will post more about Mr. Larson in the near future.
My good friend, Erl, from the Brotherhood Of Bears Yahoo Group has shared this “Distributel” commercial using sumo wrestlers to make a visual point.
There’s something about seeing two semi-nude large men superimposed on an overwhelmingly white background. You can check out more screenshots in the bearmythology Flickr Photostream.
The very day I posted and asked about the burly Turkish bearish men from a Halls Candy commercial, a kind soul by the name of Michael emailed me screenshots from it! Even though I was searching for a video, I was more than willing to repay him for his generosity. Alas, he’s stubborn as a bull. -_^ Seriously, friend, thank you very much!
To me, this Halls commercial is 30 seconds of pure homo fantasy. Picture a dad skiing with his two kids. Suddenly, he suffers from a runny nose and starts coughing, thus ruining his children’s vacation. He then takes a Halls Candy (debatable if it’s truly a candy, but that argument is for a different blog). The vapor action goodness of the candy’s menthol eucalyptus whisks our daddy away to a Turkish bath and ends up seating between two burly Turkish men wearing only a towel. The burly men then educates the “little” dad how to inhale and exhale properly. And if you watch closely, the dad is overtly ecstatic about the whole metaphor-thing-coming-to-life business. His kids then disrupt him from his fantasy sequence as our daddy skis away with a big smirk on his face.
Well, okay, so it wasn’t all that homoerotic (plus I’m not sure if I had accurately remembered it), but you gotta admit that it’s a tad bit homo just by looking at the screenshots. And, also, why was he wearing pajamas in a spa? Note how his hands are clasped together while covering up, oh, I don’t know… MORNING WOOD???!!! Uh, yeah, sure…
I have no clue who they are; so I’ll hereby baptize the bearded, unibrow wonder
as Brian Blessed, while the other as Speed Racer’s dad, John Goodman.
My favorites were the car mechanic, fireman, and construction worker. I definitely need such a hero… And who knew removing a wife-beater in tandem with bad ’80s-like pop music could be, oh, so erotic?
FUN FACT: YouTube sometimes would have a “Watch in High Quality” link on some videos. But, even if a video does not have that link, you can actually access it. All you need to do is add:
&fmt=18
at the end of the URL.
The video above is normally like this:
So you just add &fmt=18 at the end, like so:
Some videos might actually look worse off if the original uploads were of “poor quality” to begin with. But, I’d say that this trick makes every YouTube video a lot clearer than normal. I’m not sure why this is not the default setting.
While obsessing over shotputter, Reese Hoffa, in YouTube, I noticed the “Watch In High Quality” link. Apparently, there’s a quick way to download that better quality (it’s not really high-def, as it’s more of a higher bit-rate).
4. You can now download both the standard and high quality FLV files.
HOWEVER, here is an even quicker way and what I highly recommend:
*** Drag-and-drop the KEEPVID Bookmarklet to your links toolbar. ***
*** This Bookmarklet is located on the very top page of http://keepvid.com. ***
That website also has a link to AVS Video Converter that could convert your FLV files to whatever format you want. The best part is that it is free. I don’t use this program so I can’t vouch as to how good it is. I normally use “YouTube FLV to AVI converter Pro” and I’m a creature of habit and refuse to change somthing that’s been working for me. 🙂