HP: Hot Pinups?

[Tabouli]

Amy Z:
> I think it's time for a Hunks of HPfGU calendar.  For those pinup 
wannabes whose hair and chins are irredeemably smooth, don't despair; 
keep in mind that the "Lupin is sexy" camp would be happy to drool 
over you (I know, canon is silent on the question, but I say he's 
clean-shaven).  And long blond hair and girlish prettiness seem to be 
all the rage right now.<

Beards have had a dramatic image turnaround in the last 15 years or so... IIRC they were unthinkable in the clean-shaven big haired eighties (throughout which my balding father, of course, wore one... much more efficient, meant he could spend his time doing productive things like stamp collecting).  What happened there?

Now, as for the Hunks of HPfGU calendar, a fine idea, and just the right time of year for it too!  All we need now are 12 volunteers.  Mr January, do we have a Mr January?


The Bearded Goat:
> As long as they publish that other calendar with such personages as "Miss
Use of Muggle Artifacts" round about the same time ...
 
David:
> The sight of Tabouli's conjoined eyebrows waggling (does the name Denis Healey convey anything?) above her Comments Fail Me boots was so unnerving that I was reminded of an old promise I made to discuss this topic from a male UK standpoint. (...) Pippin, we need your second commandment post.  And Tabouli, could you just cross and uncross your legs a couple of times again?<

(Tabouli's eye wanders thoughtfully onto her knee-high boots, now reclining seductively in the corner of her bedroom, wondering if they might transport her to calendar pin-up girl wealth and stardom.  At this post-Christmas pre-cross-cultural training season juncture she is getting so impoverished that this is starting to look a viable option.  Her eyebrows, however, remain resolutely still in protest at the verb "waggling".  Waggling!  Where's the Class in that??  *Hers* are cool, sophisticated eyebrows who would not stoop to waggling, they rise, slowly, sensually towards her hairline over arch hazel eyes...)(and no, the name Denis Healey conveys nothing at all)

The Wise and Worthy Goat of fine literary taste and discernment:

> Aberforth's Goat (a.k.a. Mike Gray, who, while on the subject of hunks,
forgot to mention his consternation that the LOTR film ignored Tom Bombadil.
Why make such a fuss about Aragorn and Arwen if you're going to ignore the
only working poet in the whole saga who has both a beard and a chick - who
makes love, not war - who has, indeed, inspired HPfGU-OT to prosody? Talk
about people who need to get their priorities sorted out ... )

(Tabouli, who attended the opening night of LOTR in her Bring Back Bombadil T-shirt, feels that on this score her own priorities are admirably sorted out.  She even contemplated posting a further ode in Bombadillic verse to OT-Chatter from Adelaide, but refrained, as her Inner Eye picked up hostile vibrations and coded messages reading "One more post about that blasted Bombadil and we'll drop a crate of earwax jellybeans on your computer!")


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