I’d love to donate as much as $2000 to the cause, but what if half a million people ‘liked’ my photo? Where would I come up with funds to honor my pledge to support breast cancer research? After all, more than 700,000 people had viewed this 13-second clip of Arnold Schwarzenegger with Hans and Franz…. “Should we put a limit on this?”, I asked our team, imagining the photo of me clad in pink creating a viral internet sensation. To prove my manhood, I accepted the challenge on one condition: for every person who likes our Facebook page between now and the end of October, we would donate $2 to the National Breast Cancer Foundation. If I didn’t accept her dare, I knew I risked a Hans and Franz-like officewide reputation of “girlie man”. Mary challenged me to change our Matchmaker Logistics Facebook profile to a photo of me, dressed in pink. Not only did she and our newest team member, Jennifer, send a photo from the Alabama office with the two of them both wearing pink hats, they also issued a challenge. But within minutes of posting my weekly email, our CIO (Chief Instigating Officer), Mary, had thrown down the gauntlet. They finally received their just deserts when Arnold Schwarzenegger himself made a guest appearance on the show, flexing his own steriod enhanced muscles and ridiculing “his cousins” for being girlie and weak.Īs the only male on the Matchmaker Logistics team, I didn’t expect my co-workers would challenge my admission in last week’s Thought for the Weekend: I don’t wear pink. To demonstrate their own incredible manhood, the pair would strike bodybuilder poses to show off their “muscled” bodies, complete with strained facial expressions. “Poor little girlie man alone in his girlie house!!” They referred to non-muscle-bound men as “girlie men”, a phrase that entered the pop culture lexicon thanks to the sketch: With padding for fake muscles, drab gray sweatsuits, weight belts, and hilariously bad Austrian accents, the two SNL comedians denigrated others for not being as strong and physically “fit” as they were. In these popular sketches which spoofed Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carvey and Nealon played a pair of muscle-bound Austrian jocks. “I am Hans.” “Und I am Franz.” “Und ve just vant to pump… (clap) …YOU UP!” But we’ll be back next week to…Īnnouncer: This has been pumping up with Hans & Franz.Do you remember that classic Saturday Night Live skit Pumping Up featuring Dana Carvey and Kevin Nealon as Hans and Franz? Franz is now feeling well.Yeah that’s the ticket. We’re going to have to cut the show tonight. ![]() ![]() Hans: FRANZ!! FRANZ!! Earth to muscleman! Earth to muscleman! Are you still with us? I can’t believe you. You know I can’t believe it because his body…įranz: (Daydreams again and he gets on the same white horse with Patrick) It’s like you’re in another world or something. Hans: Franz!! Franz! We are talking about Patrick Swayze’s body and I’ve lost you. (Starts daydreaming of a goat leaping in the air and then he dreams of Patrick riding on a white horse down the road) You can practicallyreach out and firm up and lift up his buttocks.įranz: Yeah yeah yeah right. Hans: I mean get out of here you didn’t notice his buttocks! What do you mean you didn’t notice his buttocks? I’ve known you for 17 years Franz. Pummel out, pummel out, pummel out, pummel out, pummel out! Hans: What do you mean you didn’t notice? How could you not notice?! You did not notice his buttocks? They were so out thrust and nicely contoured.įranz: (Thinking) Why is Hans doing this to me? Why does he keep tormenting me this way? I must drive these thoughts away. Hans: I asked you what you thought about the angle of his body crease and how well porportioned it’s doing? Hans: Franz! Franz, I asked you a question. Hans: I couldn’t help but thinking of how well his chest area, properly oiled, would do in competition.įranz: (Thinking) What are all these feeling I’m experiencing? Why do I keep thinking about Patrick Swayze wanting to get to know him better and to possibly work and train with him. Hans: I was particularly impressed by the lift of his sturdy buttock muscle and the firmness of his hairless pectoral. ![]() You know for a non-Arnold actor he was very pumped up. ![]() I’m sure our viewers out there will agree. (Patrick gets up)įranz: All right Patrick thank you for dropping by and dropping in.
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