When I was a kid in New York, a common tease was an older boy asking a naive younger one, "Are you a PLP?" The questioner would refuse to define the term. If the tyro answered no, he was not a Proper Looking Person. If the answer was yes, he was a Public Leaning Post and all the other boys would pile on.The Arch is a Public Leaning Post. This man's pose makes him look to be in dire need of support. Actually, he was waiting for a friend to set up a photo.
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une pause de mannequin
To me, he looks like he's posing for an Abercrombie & Fitch catalog!
Do you think that tease still work? I will have to try it at work.
You made me investigate that very serious matter of Spidey's origin. You are completely right: he grew up in Forest Hills. Now, that's a place I have never explored. Maybe I'll have to find his childhood home...
Is the arch in his shoe? Where's the St. Louis Arch?
See. That's where the internet could have come in handy when I was a kid. We never heard of terms like PLP.
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