Christmas

Christmas

 Last year I contributed a Christmas post to my friend Jerry's blog Vintage Muscle Men about the Twelve Days of Christmas, using the vintage photos that Jerry loves.  I slightly altered some of the wording – for example, who wants four calling birds when you could have four (naked) college nerds?  Here's my latest version using some not-so-vintage photos.  Enjoy.

On the twelfth day of Christmas my true love gave to me

Twelve drummers drumming

Eleven pipers piping

(Parade in New York City, 2015, answering the question: what does a Scotsman wear under his kilt?)

Ten lords a-leaping

Nine laddies dancing

Eight men "got milk"ing

Seven swimmers swimming

Six guys a-laying

Five golden rings

Four college nerds

(Yale students at the Yale-Harvard game in 2016)

Three French men

(French rugby players, from the making of the Dieux du Stade calendar, 2007)

Two Turkish hugs

(Turkish oil wrestlers)

And a partner in a pear tree.

Merry Christmas to all of you!