Oh, cripes, have we lost you to the other side? She’s very much female, you know.
Hey, this means I get to wile him with my feminine charms now. 
I think that Doper Genders thread back in IMHO should be stickied or something…
Didn’t anyone else parse “model” as a make of product, like a refrigerator?
I thought of TYM as an anthropomorphised refrigerator when I wasn’t thinking of him as a fortysomething with wire-frame glasses.
Frank, what were you actually thinking of when you picked your name?
Elvis Costello??
That would finish nicely, since Elvis fits the wire-frame glasses thing.
And, he had an album titled ‘This Years Model’.
Every time I think of Frank, I think of TV’s Frank.
This is odd, because I, too, thought TYM was an attractive female before the name change. I suppose it was because subconsciously, model==female in my mind.
Uncommon Sense has it. It was the title of Elvis Costello’s second (and best) album. You’re half right though. The connotations of a new model were there for me. I try to keep from fossilizing into a carictature of myself, to stay fresh and think in new ways, and so on and so forth, so that was there. The cocaine and runway model never crossed my mind.
If you add grey hair and a grey beard to your picture of a forty-eight year old with wire rim glasses, that would be me.
It’s OK. Your side never wanted me anyway.
