If That Pirate's Hand Were Any Limper...

This vintage ad, via Kitschy Kitschy Coo, extols the sex appeal of stamp collecting while exploiting horrible gay stereotypes.



Speaking of stamp collecting, one of my friends used to collect stamps but she tired of "all the lame jokes about being unwilling to lick things". As in, "She choses philately over fellatio," and "He'd rather lick stamps than his girlfriend -- but as a collector, he never licks stamps, so...".

I told her any cunning-liguist would have been able to turn each of those around to his or her favor; certainly any jokes about my collecting never deter me.