By request
Sis is asking for pictures to brighten up the place: Molly, alpacas, Raoul. Sounds good to me. I’m writing on deadline so I can’t do a proper post, but here are some Raoul pictures (and if you don’t know what I’m talking about, click on the category “Raoul” to get up to speed; you might also read the About Dr. Socks page).
Raoul as he usually is, without his head
Raoul with head (one of several)
Raoul out shopping
Note: this looks like the actor Michael Spears, but in fact it's a bit of ectoplasm Raoul whipped up to look like Spears.
After the jump, there’s a picture of a naked penis and a fun quiz!
Quiz: Who is this man? If you can identify him correctly, you will win a fabulous ectoplasm prize from Raoul.
Who?
UPDATE: Okay, peeps, since none of you have guessed correctly yet, I’m putting up another picture to help you.
Can you tell now?
80 Responses to “By request”
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tinfoilhattie says:
Burt Reynolds?
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Violet says:
Wrong, wrong, wrongity wrong!
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Hairy Legs says:
Sean Connery?
The guy who played Greg from the Brady Bunch?
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Sis says:
God he just gets better and better doesn’t he?
Adam Beach?
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m Andrea says:
Marlon Brando
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Sis says:
Really? It is about the right style for the time he’d have been that age.
I’m more intrigued by the idea that Vi has a secret cache of gorgeous sometimes nude well-hung men up in that smoking lounge.
I’m thinking a smoking lounge is possibly a heterosexual disenchanted feminist’s salvation. Or revenge.
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Sandra S. says:
Is it Raoul?
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benz says:
lemme just say…. i love that he’s uncircumsized
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Violet says:
Sis, I’ve always liked men. Quite a bit, actually. I get along with them very well, and they’re fun in bed.
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Sis says:
I share your tastes.
But who is our mystery man?
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Kiuku says:
Those ones can be redeemed.
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Violet says:
People have to guess who the mystery man is. Hint: he’s dead, at least in the corporeal sense. But he lives on here in the Smoking Lounge.
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Sis says:
I’ve looked at a lot of nekkid photos of Marlon Brando (some really disgusting) but that one isn’t among them. By the way, in those photos, he’s not that ripped, has more like a swimmer’s physique, and his shoulders are large compared to his waist. Very “V”.
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Sis says:
Oh god it’s not Ronald Reagun is it?
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Sandra S. says:
I may be on smack, but he looks slightly Tony Curtis-y.
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AM says:
Well…(pausing to peer closely), he appears to be an outie. I just know there has to be a data base out there of famous outies.
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AM says:
Charlton Heston?
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Violet says:
Why do I get the feeling none of you are actually looking at his face?
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yttik says:
LOL!
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LandOLincoln says:
He looks like a Latino Montgomery Clift.
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BQ says:
mmmm… Nuryev?
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Nina M. says:
I’m confused, as usual. Are all the pictures of the same person?
The one on the bottom – I think its Jack Nicholson. If so, that photo is the only redeeming act of his entire career.
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Violet says:
Nina, all the pictures except the last one are of Raoul. But since Raoul is a spirit (in his last life he was an African grey parrot), he can take on any form he likes. Or any form I like.
The last picture is of one of our friends here in the Smoking Lounge. It’s of him as a young man.
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Violet says:
By the way, none of you have guessed correctly yet.
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Sis says:
Well Heston gets two check marks: dead, and it’s verified he once posed nude by the photo included in a book of male nudes. Nureyev, probably posed nude, also dead, is out. He had cheekbones to die for, and his nostrils flared upward *at the side*. Also, see that flab–on our model’s torso, and right thigh? Nureyev, I don’t think so.
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Sis says:
One of our friends here in the smoking loungs!? I knew it. It’s Simply Wondered. He is after all, a piens expert.
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orlando says:
Most of the guesses have been American, but he definitely looks European to me.
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Sis says:
He looks native to me, Metis (half-breed). The rest of them are, except for Topless.
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Violet says:
No, he’s not Native. He’s European. But he became a big Hollywood star.
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Lori says:
Errol Flynn?
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Nina M. says:
Right, Jack Nicholsen – still alive. Mores the pity.
European? You’re sure? My next guess was Ricardo Montalban.
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Sandra S. says:
Sir Laurence Olivier?
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Sandra S. says:
Okay, I give up. But if you’ve got any nudes of Jimmy Stewart, can we see those?
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Sandra S. says:
Richard Burton?
When do we get to find out?
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Violet says:
I can’t believe you people! Okay, I’m going to post another picture of him to help you. Anybody who’s my age or older ought to be able to recognize him, I would think. Or maybe not. He looked different in his youth, for sure, but his face and attitude are (at least to me) unmistakable.
Picture coming up.
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Lori says:
I’m thinking Yul Byrner.
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Lori says:
And from where do these photos come? Why don’t I have this stuff at my fingertips?
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Sandra S. says:
I think Lori got it. I’m still not sure. I keep getting distracted by his enormous stage presence.
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Violet says:
I’m thinking Yul Brynner.
YES!!!! Lori wins the ectoplasm prize!
So it is written…so it shall be done!
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Sis says:
Well I agree Lori. I have spent some time googling and I’ve not found anything like this. But yeah, it sure does look like Yul Brynner, which would explain the “native” inflence I thought I saw. Many Russians and Ukrainians have Chinese origin.
Who knew? He was a hunk, younger and older.
You sure do have an esoteric collection there Miss Vi. My my, it’s been quite a hunt.
Can anyone give me a light?
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leis says:
He looks like the guy that played the Riddler on the old Batman show with Adam West.
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Violet says:
Frank Gorshin.
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Sis says:
You know, jokes about where we were focusing aside Vi, this man could have been gelded and still cause palpitations. What a stunner. And it’s all above the chin.
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Violet says:
Yul Brynner is popular in my family. My mother and I are agreed that the best parts of the Ten Commandments are with Yul. He was a trip.
Also loved him The King and I. And remember West World? Jesus!
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Violet says:
I remember watching the Ten Commandments as a kid and thinking that Ramesses was infinitely cooler than Moses. Or at least sexier.
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Sis says:
I have only seen him in The King and I.
I will now sweep all my Daniel Day-Lewis DVDs off the desk here, and embark on a Yul Brynner Festival. It’s amazing how our perceptions can be skewed (that’s skewed laydeez) by Hollywood type casting. I think he’s infinitely sexier than Marlon.
I was reading this week about a study (sigh, science; geez) saying that women require romance to feel sexy, and that’s why those bodice rippers sell.
Oh my gawd. You’re not a bodice ripper author are you Vi?
Do you have the book? Did you scan the photo in just for us. No really, he dead gorgeous and I’ve gotta get me a print.
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Sis says:
Sandra S. *snort*
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Nina M. says:
Dammit! And here I was about to guess it was Alain Delon!
I may need glasses.
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Anna Belle says:
I would just like to note that, quite hilariously, I clicked on this uncensored link on the computer I have in my night class, which is only viewed by projection on a huge screen for all the class to see. Luckily, they where all engaged in their midterms and I was able to click back really swiftly after I remembered this post, but it was hilarious to me. Of course they all looked up when I couldn’t stifle the giggle.
Thanks for that.
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orlando says:
No fair choosing pictures where he had hair.
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yttik says:
I went and saw him in the King and I. He was amazing, he had such a stage presence it filled the whole auditorium.
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Violet says:
yttik, my mother saw him on Broadway in the original production! 1952 I think.
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ElleR says:
I just logged on and want you to know that I guessed Yul. What a fun guessing game! I loved Yul Brynner in the King and I, saw it on the stage as well as the movie. I once stayed at a friend’s house outside Geneva and she said Yul Brynner lived “next door.” But since “next door” wasn’t even visible, I have no way of knowing. But it was soooo nice envisioning him in the vicinity… breathing the same air, looking up at the same moon (I was 23.)
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Sis says:
No need to apologize ElleR. I’m 67.
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Val says:
That’s is so-not FLAB on his inner thigh!!!
So I guess it’s true, what they say about big feet ;-)!
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gayle says:
“I remember watching the Ten Commandments as a kid and thinking that Ramesses was infinitely cooler than Moses. Or at least sexier.”
If you watch it again you’ll know your young self was dead right.
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gayle says:
Oh, and if anyone wants to see a great example of how dudely notions of cultural relativism can destroy a good story, rent and suffer through the Jodie Foster remake of The King and I.
You see, everything the King does is good and honorable, including and especially beating his many wives, and he has no choice really so leave the poor dear alone you entitled western woman with your silly notions that other woman aren’t supposed to abused pieces of property!! Do you have any idea of how ridiculous you look!
I shudder just thinking of it. Yuck!
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Sis says:
Hi Gayle
Upon searching Anna Leonowens, I learn she was a women’s rights and black person’s rights activist and the founder of the Nova Scotia College of Art in Halifax Nova Scotia, where she lived her final years.
I also learned the subject search of her name on a umbrella library site serving North American libraries brought up three Google links pimping out women.
Because that’s what women’s rights are, of course.
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Sis says:
P.S. I did complain, using the 1.800 number.
And the Google ads rotate, so the ones I mentioned might not show when you hit the link.
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julia says:
More photos!
We never get to see naked men in this country. Unless they’re for gay men.
When I was young, I had picutres of gorgeous neaked men all over the wall in a little alcove in my bedroom. They came from Playgirl Magazine. -
simply wondered says:
‘One of our friends here in the smoking loungs!? I knew it. It’s Simply Wondered. He is after all, a piens expert.’
arf!!!!! well, happily for me i have yet to make it to the smoking lounge; and less happily i am SOOOO not up there with big mr b in the piens stakes. i am delighted even to have got a mention. maybe i was a parrot in a former life, albeit less well-built than raoul.
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yttik says:
I don’t have any naked men photos, but I thought this squirrel was pretty cute:
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Sis says:
I did not come here again just to look at the photos. I came for the articles.
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foxx says:
These photos are racist in the extreme. Sorry, I won’t be back.
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Sis says:
Do come back and tell us why foxx. I’m up for it. I’m Dene/Cree/European half-breed. I have Metis status.
These photographs are native men (except headless Raoul) or I’ll eat my father’s scrip documents. They are dressed in native garments, modernized in one for sure. They have a right. But even if they weren’t the respectful and knowing use of native fashions thrills me. There are rules to follow though. One of them is, you don’t speak for someone else’s culture. We can look after our oppression on our own, thanks. Don’t bother telling us you’re native. You’re just another one of those useless keyboard politicos.
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Violet says:
I think foxx must be kidding.
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simply wondered says:
mind you, it’s still scary how much stuff sis knows! what quality posters you have vi.
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gayle says:
Thanks for the link on Anna Leonowens, Sis. Your protests may have worked as my google ads were all for historical books!
Now that you mentioned her name, I remember the movie remake I mentioned above was not The King and I but Anna and the King. No one burst into song and dance during the dreary remake, which was a shame. A peppy rendition of “Getting To Know You” would have vastly improved it.
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Violet says:
Anna and the King — there was also a TV show by that name, I think. It was based on the King and I and Yul Brynner reprised his role as King M. Early 70s I think that was.
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Sis says:
I hope foxx is kidding. I don’t know the addy. That kind of stance is something I see over and over again on a certain type of blog. I get sick of it. They are just knocking themselves out to be racially sensitive. But really it’s just more patronizing.
Except I didn’t know foxx was fooling, Simply. You need to be a lawyer for that kind of smarts.
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Sis says:
Yul Brynner would be nearly 90 now. When he posed for that, was 68 years ago. And some people want to think women were uptight conservative and sexually repressed in old days. HAH. Not likely.
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Violet says:
I think foxx must be joking, because otherwise it makes no sense. “These photos are racist in the extreme.” Hmm. Picture of headless underwear model, probably Caucasian. Picture of young Dine man who is a model and aspiring actor, beautiful studio portrait. (Actually the photographer is Ojibwe.) Picture of some guy on the street in Ecuador. Publicity photo of Michael Spears in costume from the movie Into the West. Nude photos of Yul Brynner from the 40s.
Unless foxx means that pictures of male human beings are inherently racist, then I’m kind of lost.
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simply wondered says:
‘Except I didn’t know foxx was fooling, Simply. You need to be a lawyer for that kind of smarts.’
*chokes into tea* gosh – how could anyone be THAT smart? you’d have to be lisa simpson or someone.
or the wonderful dr herself, of course.
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Violet says:
Are you an official lawyer yet, Richard? By the way, sorry about your piens.
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Sis says:
Simply I’m not sure why you are now staking piens. Last I heard you were tasting piens.
Is this some Brit specific piensculture?
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Violet says:
The silence of the foxx leads me to believe that he/she was serious about the racism. It’s so peculiar. What does the word “racism” mean anymore? I can’t figure out what he/she is talking about. Is he/she opposed to people of Native ancestry being photographed? Is that somehow “racist,” and if so, how? Should someone inform Native people so they won’t make the terrible mistake of being photographed? Or is he/she somehow opposed to the historical costume Michael Spears is wearing for the movie “Into the West”?
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Sis says:
I don’t know. Maybe foxx thinks it’s racist for you to notice that native men are HOT.
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Branjor says:
I hate folks who post and run. S/he drops a stink bomb – racist – and then refuses to explain.
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simply wondered says:
‘silence of the foxx’ nice – makes me think of fava beans and chianti. best not refer to mr hopkins tho as he is a native welshman. what i really want now is some silence about foxx.
sis – steady on! where did i admit to tasting piens??? that may mean something different in my culture.
vi – i am not yet official. i may never be official. i have to pass my course (easy – everyone passes) and get pupillage in a set of barristers (really hard – lots of good people and not enough places). then after 6 months i can practise. at the moment i am only good enough to help people who are so poor they don’t deserve a proper lawyer. asylum seekers, the homeless, those on benefits – all those inconvenient people who seem determined not to go away and leave the nice rich folks to enjoy the sunshine. at the moment i enjoy it so much there is a horrible propsect that i may do it as a career and never earn a bean. i do fucking love it tho; and the rich people and officialdom are so gratifyingly annoyed that you are taking on the inconvenient people’s cases, it makes it all worthwhile. it’s so important to have the right motivation for a career, dontcha think?
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Branjor says:
Maybe the problem is that RL posted pictures of a man just for women’s enjoyment and it wasn’t even a white man, but a Native man.
