Oh lordy! Never mind the scantily clad feminine forms, but women HOLDING tools --- I am absolutely apoplectic!! When WILL the degradation cease (wink) John Rodgers 88 GL Driver Jim Felder wrote: > The King of all garage pinup calendars was and is the Rigid Tool > Calendar. Here's somebody's collection from the 70son Flickr <http:// > www.flickr.com/photos/umpqua/sets/917376/> > > Warning: Be prepared to see WOMEN holding TOOLS. > > They are still being produced. Get yours here <http://www.ridgid.com/ > Tools/Calendar/index.htm> > > Jim > > > On Feb 17, 2007, at 12:54 AM, Philip Zimmerman wrote: > >> From: Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM> >> >> Is this delightfully tacky eye candy no longer >> socially acceptable? >> >> From: Robert Fisher <refisher@MCHSI.COM> >> Subject: Re: Friday/NVC: Tool calendars? >> >> http://www.pirellical.com/thecal/home.html >> ----------- >> >> Great fryeday question Mike, as the list looks >> real quiet today. R&Ring ball joints will get >> a guy thinking about such things. (RVC) >> >> Pirelli still seems to think they are acceptable. >> Although, the French are way ahead of most neanderthal >> countries around issues of human body. Or perhaps >> the French choose to ignore the nay-sayers and print >> what they enjoy... I dunno.... >> >> Thanks Robert for the link and trip down memory >> lane. Wow, I miss my miss-spent youth. >> >> The old-school Mechanic I rent shop-space from >> still receives the occasional calendar from his >> suppliers. The content is more bent on promoting >> some product like Optima batteries with a tease of >> cheese-cake to help the male ego remember the product. >> >> Ben, the mechanic, still has a calendar from 1979 >> hanging on the back of his office-door. The pig I >> am, I still enjoy a gaze at that calendar..... >> Almost every time I close the door behind me. >> >> Phil Z. >> dazed & depraved in >> Campbell River, BC >> > > |
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