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Having seen the TV ad, and realizing that this was what I had needed all along – if I was ever to be as fully manscaped as a Ken Doll – I ran home from the tanning salon, inspected my arms, armpits, legs, chest, and crotch, for any offending hints of even the appearance of a hair, showered, blow-dried, gelled and styled my coif, (I do think my side-swept textured fringe style is way cool), spritzed on some Drakkar Noir, and ran out to purchase the brand new Gillette GA-I 100 razor – the Gillette Anal-Ist, the next generation of the Gillette Crevisatyr. Now I could finally achieve the dizzying new heights of uber manliness I could have heretofore only dreamed of. Now I would be able to be the very epitome of what it means to be a man – today. I had splurged and got the Deluxe model Anal-Ist, which comes with a goose-neck rear view mirror, and at last I had all the tools I needed to be as attractive and masculine as any guy swanning about looking at himself in store windows could be. I could finally achieve complete body baldness. I too could look like a low-testosterone filled boiled chicken. I could finally erase all vestige of every body man hair I possessed. I already owned the Gillette Brow-Beater 100 (the GB-B 100), the combo nostril/ear shaver – the Gillette Nosear/aser (the G-No No’s 100), also known affectionately as the No Hairy Nares, the Gillette “Olive” model – the De Pitter (the GDP 100), the Gillette Back-Away (the GB-A 100), the Gillette buttocks shaver the bUNSHorn (the G/BUNS 100), the Gillette No-GRO/IN (the GNG-R 100), and it’s companion piece, the Gillette Testicle/aner (the GT/a 100) – also listed in the Gillette catalogue as the “S/ACumen”, the Gillette S-Pec-Tator Sport (the G-S-P-S 100), the Gillette LEG/end/Dis-ARM combo (the GLenDA-C 100), and the Gillette Taint-a-Lizer (the GT-A-L 100 Deluxe – known to aficionados as “The Pucker Plucker”), which comes with attached laser beam light and magnifying mirror for close-up work. I had it all. I couldn’t wait to get home, get back into my bathroom, lather up, and become the man that Ken is, and has always been – Today’s real man.
And, in view of it being the Halloween nite, I will be going trick or treating wearing a full body condom as I am going as Rush Limbaugh, a sad excuse for a man who, no doubt, has a teeny little willie, yet is a guy who is one of America’s biggest, and fattest, pricks.
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A poll? I like a little hair. Completely hairless creeps me out.
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Posted by lisahgolden | November 3, 2011, 12:18 amme too. one for us. continue…
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Posted by barkinginthedark | November 3, 2011, 1:19 amewww…of course, i too like a good shot of hot wax on my asshole every now and then…nothing like it eh? 🙂 also, when i go to the car wash, as the car is going thru, i stick my arse out the window , spread my cheeks, and get a good spray of the car wash hot wax up there – kills two buttocks with one spray. i do not get today’s “modern” man. i wonder if the ladies actually like the “ken” look. maybe i’ll take a poll. thanx for the ALWAYS interesting comment Noeleen. continue…
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Posted by barkinginthedark | November 3, 2011, 12:16 amewwww. the mannequin look. yes, i too enjoy a nice smear of hot wax on my asshole every now and then 🙂 in fact i go to the car wash, and as my car is going thru, i lean out the window and spread my ass cheeks so as to get some of that good hot wax up there…y’know – kill two buttocks with one spray – as it were. i understand today’s modern man. i wonder if ladies like the no hair, nowhere look? i may have to take a poll. continue…
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Posted by barkinginthedark | November 3, 2011, 12:10 amOh sweet lord. The Pucker Plucker?! No, noooo!!! And then you hit me with the Rush Limbaugh visual?
This should have come with a beverage alert. My poor keyboard.
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Posted by Averil Dean | November 2, 2011, 1:32 ami had to interrupt shaving my legs to “approve” this comment…but i’m here lather and all. thanks AD, i always appreciate hearing from you – in fact i just left a comment re your truth or dare post…pure genius that. going back to my Gillette LegEnd 100…oooh my leg and a half is sooo smooth. continue…
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Posted by barkinginthedark | November 2, 2011, 4:21 amHahahahahaha!! I agree, shaving every orifice of your body is not something I, as a woman, find attractive. I like a man with hairy arms and calluses on his hands. But, it would definitely be nice if I’m not able to braid your chest hair. That’s a no-no.
Did you hear about the new, tattooed Barbie that has come out?
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/popular-tattooed-barbie-causes-controversy/196655-2.html
Of COURSE there’s been an outcry from hundreds of parents, complaining that the tattoos and pink hair are a bad influence on their children. Because, up until now, Barbie’s tiny waist and bleach blond hair made her a GREAT role model for young girls!
Meh, forget ’em. I love tattooed Barbie. She’s more my style.
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Posted by Nicole Marie | November 1, 2011, 10:43 pmmy chest hair is already french braided anyway 🙂 i hear tatooed Barbie has an anchor tat on her chest oh wait- that’s Bull-Dyke Barbie…my bad. Love your sarcasm girl. thanks. continue…
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Posted by barkinginthedark | November 2, 2011, 4:32 amYou’re a scream. You really make me laugh by the way you write :). I had a Ken doll once – and a Barbie. All so very perfect.
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Posted by wordsfallfrommyeyes | November 1, 2011, 10:59 amto approach even more of their inner “Ken-ness” these “new” men might also consider cutting off their junk…ewww…owww…ohhhh…thanx for reading, for laughing, (very important that), and for the props Noeleen, they’re ALWAYS appreciated. continue…
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Posted by barkinginthedark | November 1, 2011, 8:35 pmWe humans have such a love hate relationship with hair. I want to be a person who says it’s all all right so let’s stop the madness. Then I remember the time I saw hair epaulets on a shirtless man, and I go into “it’s all okay except for…” mode.
I know. I’m slapping my own wrist right now.
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Posted by Sparks In Shadow | November 1, 2011, 6:21 amwell don’t slap anything. i certainly do agree that the hair epaulets is a damn good reason to depilitate that shit…or don’t ever take your shirt off, even in the shower – it’s not an appetizing look. but i think we’re both tawkin’ about the modern metrosexual dude who shaves his chest hair, armpits, and pubic hair clean off. i dunno, to me that’s an ewwwww. thanks Re, for reading and commenting. continue…
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Posted by barkinginthedark | November 1, 2011, 6:34 amThe funny part is you can be either or… look like a wolf in heat or shaved cleaner than a boiled egg!
No in between
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Posted by fivej | October 31, 2011, 9:23 pmJoel, don’t agree that there’s no in-between, but thanks much or reading and commenting. continue…
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Posted by barkinginthedark | October 31, 2011, 9:26 pmFair is fair. Welcome to our world, my dear. Actually, I loved the humor with which you wrote this. Now I’m off for that Brazilian I scheduled last week.
One other thing . . . who on earth came up with the term . . . manscape?
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Posted by Miss Demure Restraint | October 31, 2011, 3:58 ammanscape? beats me Dee. not my thing tho”. enjoy that brazilian, OH, OOH, OUCH. continue…
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Posted by barkinginthedark | October 31, 2011, 5:32 amOK, I actually LOL’d at the Pucker Plucker! 🙂
(I’d suggest waxing to help with all that stubble, but I guess Ken has to have a little something there that stands on end!)
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Posted by Janece | October 31, 2011, 2:33 amJanece, thanks for the witty comment…glad to make you laugh. continue…
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Posted by barkinginthedark | October 31, 2011, 2:42 amI’m dying here! DYING.
I don’t know how I got so busy that I missed the cultural memo stating that Alopecia had become an desired trait. Except for the top of the head, of course.
I mean, good god, you’d think that picking a hair off one’s tongue had become the scourge of the planet.
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Posted by Lisa Golden | October 30, 2011, 9:20 pmVERY funny girl. thanx for reading, and for making me laugh with the DYING here. continue…
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Posted by barkinginthedark | October 30, 2011, 9:36 pmp.s. just realized you also wrote “you’d think that picking a hair off one’s tongue had become the scourge of the planet.” also tooooo funny. continue…
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Posted by barkinginthedark | October 30, 2011, 9:52 pm