Not quite a Speedo, but

[Torchwatch]

I have been to Loch Ness but was advised not to swim there, the water is peaty black, freezing cold even in summer and 800 ft deep.
Your "little monster" might shrink but the bigger problem is rapid body temperature loss and hypothermia.
On the Loch Ness project we were forbidden from swimming off the raft. When someone dropped a diving mask into the water it disappeared into the black water almost instantly and was lost.
I went up the steep side of the Loch following General Wade's Military Road then cut cross country to the little tarn I swam in. So easy to get lost up there, I had to walk on a compass bearing to get back.
So exciting to swim alone in the wild, exciting and a bit dangerous.
A close encounter with a big stag surprised us both.

[sebbie]

As I understand the story, he begin his career as a male model. Then got picked up as a Spanish-language actor. So the underwear modeling precedes the acting career.

Underwear modeling is a very specialized (and apparently very highly paid as male models go) subset of (male) modeling and to get to do underwear modeling is the goal of many young and aspiring male models. Not all males who might be very good at modeling other kinds of clothing make good underwear models. For starters, the guy has to have a really excellent stomach for it, as in really tight abs and a slim waist. Then there is the issue of "endowment". The bulge has to look just right for the cameras, and not be either too big, too small, or too revealing in detail. No doubt padding is used in a lot of photos, but the sheer Levy photos suggests that he has just the right equipment without any help whatsoever. In sheer underwear modeling, there really isn't the option of using padding to primp the bulge.

ABC apparently knew all about the underwear modeling photos before they signed him on for Dancing with the Stars and probably correctly concluded he would boost the ratings. I expect him to be a voter favorite for many coming weeks, and each week we will see a little more of the body. This week, we started to see the bare chest. What happens next week everyone will just have to tune in to find out, but that was the whole reason for signing him on the show.

[Crail]

Byron, thanks for the wonderful eye candy - he is dreamy

[Torchwatch]

The vanilla pod harvest failed last year, the price of vanilla is rising due to shortage and speculation. maybe it is time to consider something more fruity.

[Torchwatch]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcNcC...feature=relmfu


Ok they are Japanese and they are wearing fundoshis, but why are they playing catch with a rather large boat?

[Byron]

Yep, an odd plant and it is apparently an orchid and labor-intensive to harvest and able to grow in only a few places in the world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Va...d_dsc00190.jpg
(would be fascinated to see the relevant speedo)

[Byron]

Not Japanese - the Tao people of Orchid Island off Taiwan.
(unfortunately where Taiwan's nuclear waste products are also dumped).

The great canoe launching is one of three traditional annual ceremonies
and a new fishing boat is put to sea with chanting and dance for a prosperous harvest
of flying fish, to be caught between March and June.

http://www.iov.org.tw/eng/taiwanculture14-2.asp

[Byron]

Och Aye - you were in the very deep waters of the Great Glen - Scotland's coast-to-coast ancient geological fault line.

You were indeed in a lonely spot in walking the military road* to the tarn:

http://escape2places.files.wordpress...inwarning7.jpg

Btw, you met your stag much like the Monarch in her Land Rover met the Monarch of the Glen (the stunning scene from the movie The Queen ).


*Wade built 250 miles of road and 40 bridges for George I following the Jacobite Rebellion of 1715. Four new military garrisons were to be linked
and if you were on the south side of Loch Ness it was probably the Inverness to Fort William military road (the ten companies of militia he also created later became the famous Regiment of the Black Watch).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ge....uk-242563.jpg

[Byron]

Och Aye - you were in the very deep waters of the Great Glen - Scotland's coast-to-coast ancient geological fault line.

You were indeed in a lonely spot in walking the military road* to the tarn:

http://escape2places.files.wordpress...inwarning7.jpg

Btw, you met your stag much like the Monarch in her Land Rover met the Monarch of the Glen (the stunning scene from the movie The Queen ).


*Wade built 250 miles of road and 40 bridges for George I following the Jacobite Rebellion of 1715. Four new military garrisons were to be linked
and if you were on the south side of Loch Ness it was probably the Inverness to Fort William military road (the ten companies of militia he also created later became the famous Regiment of the Black Watch).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ge....uk-242563.jpg

[Byron]

See if this works for the road:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d7/General_Wade's_Military_Road_-_geograph.org.uk_-_242563.jpg