My husband Tomais steadfastly insists that he is not funny, but I disagree completely. No man has ever before consistently made me laugh so often and so much as he does.
A couple of nights ago, while we were talking on Skype as usual, Tomais suddenly mentioned the abbreviation VPL, don't ask me how and why because the conversation leading up to it has been wiped off my teflon-memory.
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Jon Hamm,
The King of VPL |
My understanding and knowledge of the English language is quite good, even if I say so myself, but it is not my mother-tongue so there are still some unchartered areas that become apparent occasionally. VPL was one of those, I had never heard the expression before so I asked him what it meant.
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Jon Hamm, a.k.a.
"The Rosetta Bulge" |
"It means ´Visible Penis Line´", my darling told me with a serious voice, as I exploded with laughter.
Then as he continued telling me about the rules I almost croaked,
"Underwear, bicycle pants or wet boxers don't count, because anyone can show a VPL in those outfits". (This means that my friend Kandinsky's favorite picture of a Polish bicycle team is out of the contest, see my previous post
Re: Bicycle Pants.)
According to writer Christian Zamora at Buzzfeed, when he ranks
The 21 Most Important Celebrity Bulges Of All Time:
"All bulges are ranked and measured on a scale of zero to five Jon Hamm's. Each bulge [is] evaluated on its outline, girth, and prominence to determine its rank and the number of Hamm's it deserve[s]".
As far as I know there is no equivalent term for this phenomenon in the Swedish language, except possibly the Swedish words for
"poseur",
"indiscreet" or
"show-off". That fact does however not mean that we haven't noticed the phenomenon before.
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Update 2015-06-10
For those who want to see more VPL you should visit the Tumblr-blog
"Visible Penis Line", although from what I could see at a quick glance most of the pictures posted seem to fall into the illegitimate category according to "Tomais Rule of VPL´s"
