Sadly, this was the only Slazenger Raw ad I could find. The one I wanted to show you I’ve only seen once: it features a leather-clad babe at the country-club snack bar, some biker dudes, and an unassuming, kind of preppy and/but hot young man who goes out and drives golf balls a long long way as the babe and bikers look on in awe. I’ll need to see it again to begin to parse this puppy, but it’s a whole lot of man-ness, before we even get to the meat: the tag image for the product is a golf ball rolling to a stop, then blood trickles from it. Then the rugged male voiceover: “Slazenger Raw: Made to be pounded.” Made to be pounded. Need I say more? And then there’s this.
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For those of you who somehow missed it, Barack Obama, while being interviewed by Us Magazine this week, was asked the fateful boxers/brief’s question. His reply, "I don’t answer those humiliating questions,” but then he added, "But whichever one it is, I look good in ’em." The way things are going for Obama lately, he probably could make briefs sexy again. No offence, brief wearers, but face it, you’re way out of style. Tommy, boxers or briefs? Dan?
