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Post by Deeky on Apr 14, 2019 2:52:29 GMT -5
Was 60's Robin kinda hairy? He wore tights.  |
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Post by Deeky on Apr 14, 2019 2:55:45 GMT -5
Deeky, after logging in and enlarging the photo, I'd agree with you on that. Interesting. Are readers unable to see more than the thumbnails of picture attachments if they aren't logged-in here? I'm just wondering...
Apparently one must be logged in to view attachments. |
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Post by Billy A. Anderson on Apr 14, 2019 7:30:41 GMT -5
Deeky, Dr. Kobb, and I hope I'm not leaving anyone else out, I very much appreciate all of your responses to this thread.
Until Deeky posted that most recent photo, I had not realized that the 1960s TV Robin wore long leg tights in addition to his tighty greenie tights.
In the 1940s photo, did Billy approve of Robin's package? Well, yes, it was OK, but no Big Deal.
As far as bodily protrusions are concerned I have always found womens' breasts more conscpicuous and noticeable than male crotch bulges, baskets or packages, or any other new term anyone can come up with.
I do think that one can get a bit too much of a good thing (or two things), and that was the case with some of the women Russ Meyer was enamoured in, especially in his later years.
I just don't see what this big to do with the bulges of Batman and Robin is all about.
It's low priority but if I can find the time, I'll get that One and Only 1960s TV still where Robin really and truly did have a conscicuously big basket.
Right now, I am more interested in studying films about Joan of Arc. I probably should get the real story as historically recorded first, before studying the films. I did look at the cast listing of the late 1940s film, and the Baron Gilles de Rais was way down on the cast list. Wonder if he even had a speaking part in the film?
But that is off the subject, and I want to keep this one on the subject of Batman and Robin both the movie serials and the 1960s TV shows, and if anyone can shed any new light on the package / basket controversey, or why Robin wore long leg tights, or any other aspects of interest, please do so.
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Post by Billy A. Anderson on Apr 14, 2019 20:28:19 GMT -5
I've wasted enough time on this project, but here it is, the only photo I can find of Burt Ward as Robin the Boy Wonder of the 1960s with a Really Big Basket. If any of you think there could be a more spectacular photo than this one and want to waste your time looking: Go For It! I don't think you'll succeed.  |
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Post by Deeky on Apr 14, 2019 21:07:03 GMT -5
Who has your favorite basket, Billy?
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Apr 15, 2019 2:05:50 GMT -5
That is indeed a Really Big Basket. Just curious: Do you recall the particular episode it comes from? I ask because that does seem a bit bawdy for mid-60's TV. I'm wondering if some basket fan might have used photoshop or something for enhanced basketry to continue the legend of Robin's basket. Perhaps we ought to call it his "Nest", instead? Just a thought.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Apr 15, 2019 2:07:53 GMT -5
That'd be a heck of an epitaph.
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Post by Billy A. Anderson on Apr 15, 2019 2:55:51 GMT -5
Who has your favorite basket, Billy? Deeky, the answer should be obvious, that my own basket or package, is my favorite. But, I don't spend hours or even minutes posing in front of a mirror wearing a jockey strap. As far as other guys, I am not really interested in their baskets, and what I've been trying to get across is, that women's breasts are a much bigger and more conspicuous body bulge than male genitals, even when they are normal sized, but has the Catholic church or any "conservative" group, ever tried to get women on TV shows to flatten out their breasts? The idea would be ridiculous. Both sexes have bulges in their bodies, and we, or I, at least, just accept that, and it's no big deal. With my attitude, the whole business about Batman and Robin in the 1960s TV show is just a bunch of stupid nonsense, And, again, I have never heard any thing about any of this bulge phobia or whatever we should call it, surrounding Batman and Robin in the 2 movie serials. |
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Post by Billy A. Anderson on Apr 15, 2019 3:00:40 GMT -5
That is indeed a Really Big Basket. Just curious: Do you recall the particular episode it comes from? I ask because that does seem a bit bawdy for mid-60's TV. I'm wondering if some basket fan might have used photoshop or something for enhanced basketry to continue the legend of Robin's basket. Perhaps we ought to call it his "Nest", instead? Just a thought. Dr. Kobb, I have no idea which episode it is from, but I'm sure there are experts on the TV show who could easily ID it. It was first up in a special photo gallery of Batman and Robin's bulges, and I'll get the URL on here, although I don't think it really would help in identifying the episode. The special web pages on Batman and Robin's bulges go on page after page, with text as well as photos, and maybe they could be of aid in IDing the episode, for anyone who wants to study the matter further, but I've got a bank deposit of rolled change to make, and also get my income tax extension filed, as I've probably mentioned before. Very good posts you have done on the subject. |
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Post by Billy A. Anderson on Apr 15, 2019 3:03:45 GMT -5
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Post by Billy A. Anderson on Apr 15, 2019 3:12:36 GMT -5
And, here is one that looks like an entire book written on the subject, along with photos. www.scribd.com/document/273886689/Ye-Art-The-Bulge-In-the-Tights-of-Batman-and-Robin-YATBITTOBAR But, you are told that what you're reading and seeing is a preview, and the page becomes blurry as you scroll down, and you have to "subscribe" to see all of it. There are others that are free, however, but I've done more than my share of work on this subject for today. I now need to shuffle thru all my papers and find the income tax extension form, and the bank deposit slip for that heavy bag of coins was dated Wednesday? of last week, but I forgot all about it, as I drove my car past the bank to take care of other business in my hectic daily life. Remembered after posting I had left out the link, so had to edit the post to include it. It does have a good title. |
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Post by Deeky on Apr 15, 2019 8:33:58 GMT -5
Perhaps we ought to call it his "Nest", instead? 😐 |
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Post by Billy A. Anderson on Apr 15, 2019 9:38:49 GMT -5
Well, Deeky, birds do stay in nests, and, "bird" has reportedly been a slang term for male equipment, as in the Tennessee Williams play, Sweet Bird of Youth, so, Dr. Kobb's suggestion is apt.
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Post by Billy A. Anderson on Apr 15, 2019 9:43:17 GMT -5
That is indeed a Really Big Basket. Just curious: Do you recall the particular episode it comes from? I ask because that does seem a bit bawdy for mid-60's TV. I'm wondering if some basket fan might have used photoshop or something for enhanced basketry to continue the legend of Robin's basket. Perhaps we ought to call it his "Nest", instead? Just a thought. Now, to get down to the nitty-gritty of Dr. Kobb's question about photoshopping on that still. Look at Robin's bulge in this admittedly photoshopped photo in the link below, and it looks exactly like the one in the scene of Robin tied up, which I think we can ID, and check out the original. www.flickr.com/photos/31964996@N03/31553113560This subject seems endless in my net searches. That free webpage has gotten buried in all of the web pages about Batman and Robin's packages, and might be hard to find again. And, I think for right now, I've devoted enough or more than enough time to this subject. |
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Post by Deeky on Apr 15, 2019 10:17:48 GMT -5
..."bird" has reportedly been a slang term for male equipment... What. |
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Post by Billy A. Anderson on Apr 15, 2019 12:44:11 GMT -5
..."bird" has reportedly been a slang term for male equipment... What. Deeky, many years ago, I did a study of the works of Tennessee Williams, both plays, novellas, and short stories, and that is what some of the commentaries on the play claimed. I apparently did not get a copy of the Income Tax Extension form, so I'll have to go to the public library and dupe it and the instructions from a very big, voluminous ring binder book they have available for people who need any all all forms and instructions for Federal Income tax. Then, I've got to fill the form out and dupe it, put it in an envelope and stamp it, and mail it. The post office is a contract one located in a hardware store, where I also need to get some supplies for some household repairs I am now working on. And, I also need to get my daily rum ration, and get that heavy bag of coins deposited in the bank, which, on the highway is located before the library. I'm going to have to write out a "to do" list so I won't forget any of the things I need to do today. And, I won't bore you, and Dr. Kobb and/or anyone else reading this, with more details, of more stuff I need to do, before and after I hit the highway to do the first things first chores, then return to the shack for more chores. In discussing Baskets and Packages and Bulges, we can see how slang words change over the years and decades, with basket fading into the past, and being supplanted by package, although thru the years, bulge, a non-slang term, has remained constant. It was in late 1970, that I read the script to Sweet Bird of Youth, and I saw the film on TV in early 1972. When reading the play script, it was stated that "bird" was a slang term for penis, although the play itself dealt with castration, the mutilation of cutting off only the testicles, and not the penis. Chance Wayne, the Hero, or Anti-Hero of the play, played by Paul Newman, in the film (don't know about on the stage) was a very sexually active young guy who had transmitted an STD to the daughter of Boss Finley, a local politician, and the infection had required her to have a hysterectomy. So, Chance Wayne was a despised enemy of Boss Finley and his followers. A doctor told Chance that he had once written a prescription for castration for a young man similarly hyper-sexual as Chance was, and as Boss Finley gave a speech inciting a crowd of his followers, the curtain was lowered, ending the play as a mob of Boss Finley's supporters, attacked Chance to carry out the doctor's prescription. Sexual mutilation was in 1962? the year the film was released, still a bit too touchy for mainstream films, so in the film version the mob just gave Chance a bad beating as the film ended. I got to get on the highway by 2 PM to get all my chores done before the post office closes at 5 PM, so you can see why I don't have time to go looking for references to the symbolism of the word, "bird," in Tennessee's play, Sweet Bird of Youth. And, it bears repeating that I might be possessed by the spirit of Forry Ackerman to write such a verbose dissertation, which I will call stupid of me, as far as wasting my valuable time goes, but as an answer to Deeky's question, I'd say I have done a darned good job. |
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Apr 15, 2019 12:48:57 GMT -5
..."bird" has reportedly been a slang term for male equipment... What. That would explain those winged penii from ancient history. |
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Post by Billy A. Anderson on Apr 15, 2019 12:50:54 GMT -5
Dr. Kobb, did you actually subject yourself to reading that long post of mine, or just the shorter one, and Deeky's questioning of my claim about the use of the word, "bird?"
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Apr 15, 2019 14:07:10 GMT -5
I refuse to answer on the grounds that it could incriminate me.
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Post by Deeky on Apr 15, 2019 14:16:15 GMT -5
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