The Sears catalog men's underwear model

Subject: The Sears catalog men's underwear model
From: gatyamgal
Date: 19 Jan 02 - 02:10 PM

Does anyone remember when a man modeling some underwear for the Sears Catalog showed a little too much? There was a song written about it and all I can remember is something like this, "How I'd love to be the man on page 602" I think this happened in the mid 70's.

Subject: RE: The Sears catalog men's underwear model
From: Gary T
Date: 19 Jan 02 - 02:21 PM

Never heard the song, but here's a link to The Straight Dope's info on the occurrence--or non-occurrence, it seems. CLICK

Subject: RE: The Sears catalog men's underwear model
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 19 Jan 02 - 02:57 PM

And all we ever got was Roger Moore in a cardigan!

LTS

Subject: RE: The Sears catalog men's underwear model
From: SeanM
Date: 19 Jan 02 - 06:15 PM

Snopes.com also has an article on it, even featuring a blow up of the offending picture. The link is http://www.snopes.com/business/hidden/sears.htm to get to the page directly.

Their opinion? 'Undetermined' as to the truth of the matter.

M

Subject: RE: The Sears catalog men's underwear model
From: SeanM
Date: 19 Jan 02 - 06:17 PM

The Snopes page also has info about the song mentioned above.

M

Subject: Lyr Add: THE MAN ON PAGE 602
From: gatyamgal
Date: 21 Jan 02 - 03:13 PM

Thank you for the responses. This sure brought back a lot of memories. My dad was working for Sears at the time. I was only 19 at the time. I can now appreciate why it was such a stir.

I have taken the time to transcribe the lyrics.

Here they are.

The Man on Page 602
Sung by Zoot Fenster

(background singers)
Look and see you'll agree
He's got personality
(singer)
Hey...
Have you heard the latest story
That's bringing on the smiles?
It has caused some blushin' laughter (heehee)
Some anger for a while.
For those who shop by mail
For all their family clothes
In the Fall and winter Catalog
More than fashion is exposed. (yeah...)

In the Fall and winter Catalog
On page six hundred two,
I see this advertisement
That makes me come unglued
The pictures got me out of sorts
Cause I don't understand
Are they advertising boxer shorts
Or are they trying to sell the man???
I don't know...

I'd send them all my money
If I could make a wish come true
I just wish I was that man on page 602

(background singers)
Look and see you'll agree
He's got personality

(singer)
Ya know... when these wish books were delivered
Anxious people start to look
And when they price them there boxer shorts
They suddenly get shook
Some say it's all in error,
Some say... all in fun.
(background singers) He could be tarred and feathered
(singer) Or maybe even hung.

In the Fall and winter Catalog
Or the wish book so it's call
In my mind there's no question
Of what I'd like most of all
I'd send them all my money
If it would make a wish come true
I just wish I was that man on page 602
Yeah, I just wish I was that man on page 602


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Subject: RE: The Sears catalog men's underwear model
From: GUEST,Desdemona
Date: 21 Jan 02 - 03:21 PM

I dimly remember something about this when it happened, although I never saw the offending photo (and my parents got the Sears catalogue, too---ah, those wasted opportunities!).

I like the company's disclaimer about it being a "blemish"!

Subject: RE: The Sears catalog men's underwear model
From: katlaughing
Date: 21 Jan 02 - 03:57 PM

I wonder if Sears had to pay for counselling for the model after calling his whatzit a "blemish!" Do ya 'spose he sued them for indecent exposure? **BG**

Subject: RE: The Sears catalog men's underwear model
From: Bill D
Date: 21 Jan 02 - 05:02 PM

methinks you see what you want to see.

Subject: RE: The Sears catalog men's underwear model
From: Desdemona
Date: 21 Jan 02 - 05:05 PM

Maybe it wasn't the FIRST time it had been called that!!!!

Subject: RE: The Sears catalog men's underwear model
From: Barbara Shaw
Date: 21 Jan 02 - 07:26 PM

I actually had the Sears catalogue with this picture and saved it somewhere, since it was so UNBELIEVABLE at the time! Somewhere in some junk file I have that page from the catalogue. As I recall, he wasn't exactly impressive but the sight was nonetheless shocking...

Subject: RE: The Sears catalog men's underwear model
From: 53
Date: 21 Jan 02 - 07:56 PM

ah, all you women out there love the sight of the head of a nice big fat penis, to bad it's not dripping with cum. BOB

Subject: RE: The Sears catalog men's underwear model
From: Bill D
Date: 21 Jan 02 - 08:10 PM

bob!!...uncalled for.....

Subject: RE: The Sears catalog men's underwear model
From: Bill D
Date: 21 Jan 02 - 08:15 PM

not sure how to explain the difference between friendly kidding and crude remarks....but you NEED to see it.

Subject: RE: The Sears catalog men's underwear model
From: GUEST,Guest
Date: 21 Jan 02 - 08:16 PM

Come,come Bob-out of line.Totally!

Subject: RE: The Sears catalog men's underwear model
From: 53
Date: 21 Jan 02 - 08:16 PM

sorry. BOB but it's true.

Subject: RE: The Sears catalog men's underwear model
From: 53
Date: 21 Jan 02 - 10:03 PM

mr bill d, are you the underwear patrol, I saw the picture and there was a penis hanging out of his drawers, whether you like it or not, it's there in black and white, the only thing I did was to juice it up a bit, and make it spicy, you know the mudcat has a clique, and if it had been one of them to post like that it would have been ok, so I suggest you just keep your comments to yourself, since the evidence is there for everybody to view, male and female alike. I imagine the guy in the ad probably was getting a rise on just thinking about all the young women that were going to get a peek at his rod, and I imagine he was pretty proud of it. BOB. IF YOU'LL CHECK THE INITIAL POST I BELIEVE IT WAS MADE BY A WOMAN, SO HER EYES WERE DEFINITELY DOWN SOUTH NEAR PENIS TOWN.

Subject: RE: The Sears catalog men's underwear model
From: Bill D
Date: 21 Jan 02 - 11:15 PM

....................*sigh*....I tried

" the mudcat has a clique, and if it had been one of them to post like that it would of been o k "

...nonsense!! I would have said the same to anyone...end of discussion...you either SEE or you don't

Subject: RE: The Sears catalog men's underwear model
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 21 Jan 02 - 11:33 PM

Hmmm. What an odd eruption in the middle of the thread. The question doesn't seem to have merited an X-rated response. I had the catalog, saw that offending member--the guy was modeling boxer shorts, and wasn't brief enough to avoid detection. I remember that Sears tried to say that it was a spot of ink on the print. Ha!

There have been quite a few instances when disgruntled employees will let things like this apparent accident go to print, or will place them there personally. One must assume that unless the model was also the photographer and layout person and proofreader, that it got past a number of people, intentionally or no. It was funny, and mostly, to quote Johnny Carson, just revealed the guy's shortcomings.

Subject: RE: The Sears catalog men's underwear model
From: GUEST,PaulM
Date: 22 Jan 02 - 07:26 AM

it just revealed the guy's shortcomings

In actual fact, it revealed the guy's 'longcomings'

No-one has an unerect penis that long! Look at the picture again.

I sense an "emperors new clothes" situation here. No male is prepared to admit that their 'member' would only come halfway down the shorts, so they accept it

PaulM

Subject: RE: The Sears catalog men's underwear model
From: Mooh
Date: 22 Jan 02 - 07:33 AM

Come again? This conversation has come to a head...

Subject: RE: The Sears catalog men's underwear model
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 22 Jan 02 - 09:04 AM

I think some of you need to be taken in hand and spanked.

And dripping isn't nice, it usually means it's not worth it.

LTS

Subject: RE: The Sears catalog men's underwear model
From: PaulM
Date: 22 Jan 02 - 10:15 AM

Liz,

Out of curiousity, have you ever made a useful post?

One that answered a question, or solved a problem?

Or, are all of your posts just an excuse to hear your own voice?

I'm curious

Paul

Subject: RE: The Sears catalog men's underwear model
From: GUEST, A Regular, sans Biscuit
Date: 22 Jan 02 - 10:38 AM

Paul M,

You might want to check on that yourself, by clicking on Liz' name.....like I just did with your name & checked all the postings you've made....

BOB......that WAS, beyond doubt, in VERY poor taste...however true you may consider it to be. Sorry, but it was.

Subject: RE: The Sears catalog men's underwear model
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 22 Jan 02 - 10:52 AM

Paul, if it's pointed down, it ain't erect! But I'm outta here for the rest of this one. . . 'cause I've run out of puns and the company is getting a tad rowdy. . . I duke it out over meaningful stuff, not pecker-dillos like this. (And yes, I passed on the second part of that pun. . .)

Subject: RE: The Sears catalog men's underwear model
From: PaulM
Date: 22 Jan 02 - 11:10 AM

GUEST, A Regular, sans Biscuit,

I sampled about 100 out of the 3900 or so posts, and came to a conclusion

Paul

Subject: RE: The Sears catalog men's underwear model
From: 53
Date: 22 Jan 02 - 11:55 AM

just don't buy drawers from sears any more. BOB

Subject: RE: The Sears catalog men's underwear model
From: PaulM
Date: 22 Jan 02 - 12:01 PM

my conclusion from this thread is to ignore messages from 53 from now

Subject: RE: The Sears catalog men's underwear model
From: 53
Date: 22 Jan 02 - 01:02 PM

well thats well and goodif you want to mr payl m, but since i didn't start this thing i'll post whenever i want to,and if you don't like it then you can lunp it. BOB

Subject: RE: The Sears catalog men's underwear model
From: 53
Date: 22 Jan 02 - 01:03 PM

well thats well and goodif you want to mr paul m, but since i didn't start this thing i'll post whenever i want to,and if you don't like it then you can lump it. BOB

Subject: RE: The Sears catalog men's underwear model
From: GUEST, A Regular, sans Biscuit
Date: 22 Jan 02 - 02:40 PM

Well, I read all of yours, & found very few where it couldnt be interpreted as showing off your knowledge of HTML or how good a 'researcher' you are.

Ok, if you're of the mistaken belief that help is forthcoming on this site only to show how clever the person providing it is....but thats a whole different issue to having a go at people who do other than just that.

Youve got a heavy task in front of you if youre going to whinge at everyone who posts for the fun of it.

...& Wow, you must be a truly wonderful conversationalist... NOT!

Subject: RE: The Sears catalog men's underwear model
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Jan 02 - 03:31 PM

Was the last response from "GUEST, A Regular sans Biscuit" for 53 or PaulM? I don't want to look up both of their histories if one will do.

Subject: RE: The Sears catalog men's underwear model
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 22 Jan 02 - 03:51 PM

Whatever faults Bob (53) may have, flaunting his knowledge of HTML isn't one of them.

Not that I am necessarily endorsing the suggestion that it is a "fault" in the first instance.

Murray

Subject: RE: The Sears catalog men's underwear model
From: 53
Date: 22 Jan 02 - 04:13 PM

thank you murray.

Subject: RE: The Sears catalog men's underwear model
From: GUEST,PaulM
Date: 22 Jan 02 - 04:37 PM

Hmmm,

I make links into BClickies for ease of use. I use bold and italic to hopefully make things clearer.

I confess that I did once insert an html table in order to display some tabular data...

You may as well say that anyone who produces a book is 'flaunting' their ability to write...

Paul

Subject: RE: The Sears catalog men's underwear model
From: 53
Date: 22 Jan 02 - 09:40 PM

I say shame on my hubby!! I told him you were right that his comment was in poor taste. But then, a lot of what is on soap operas and prime time TV these days is too suggestive for me. And he didn't start this thread or make clickies to photos.

Glenda

Subject: RE: The Sears catalog men's underwear model
From: 53
Date: 22 Jan 02 - 10:42 PM

how about some pictures from hanes her way books, that would be very interesting.

Subject: RE: The Sears catalog men's underwear model
From: 53
Date: 23 Jan 02 - 09:35 PM

my apology to all the prudes in this thread, sorry to offend you.

Subject: RE: The Sears catalog men's underwear model
From: GUEST,(A regular)
Date: 23 Jan 02 - 11:16 PM

Sigh. . .

Subject: RE: The Sears catalog men's underwear model
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 24 Jan 02 - 12:53 AM

just hated to see you go off half-cocked, is all. ;-) That's some style of apology you have, give with one hand, take with the other.

Subject: RE: The Sears catalog men's underwear model
From: GUEST,Sincerely curious
Date: 24 Jan 02 - 03:50 PM

Was 53's comment less tasteful than this one?

Subject: RE: The Sears catalog men's underwear model
From: Bill D
Date: 24 Jan 02 - 07:18 PM

VERY slightly less...I missed the other one. I wish everyone would go much easier on the crude remarks. There are places where it fits to use certain words......I have used (some) of them myself....but, LORD it gets old sometimes, and really loses the impact when it is needed!!

Notice up there, I was not condemning BOB, only the tone and attitude in one post, which went off on a tangent WAY beyond the joking and teasing. (I had even been defending BOB against stupid trolls in another thread)

...ahh, why try...as I said, one either sees the point, or they dont.......

Subject: RE: The Sears catalog men's underwear model
From: CarolC
Date: 24 Jan 02 - 07:36 PM

I did find BOB's post pretty offensive. Not because it contained an off color remark. I usually don't have too much of a problem with off color remarks.

The problem I had with it, whether or not BOB meant it in this way, is that it comes across as being incredibly misogynistic.

I understand that BOB is dealing with some problems that effect his ability to make good judgements about what to post. The way it looks to me is that when a person gets to that point, maybe it's time to take a break from posting until the ability to make good judgements returns. Both for his own sake, as well as for the sake of the forum. My understanding is that this is what he is doing. I think he has made a wise choice.