# I want my sexy fire fighters! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 6, 2007, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-my-sexy-fire-fighters/414642 "2007-08-06T16:37:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2007, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-my-sexy-fire-fighters/414642/21 "2007-08-07T00:24:38Z")
[QUOTE=Biggirl] The cover guy is the one that ‘went wild’. All kinds of hot! [/QUOTE] Well, maybe if you find Lego hair “hot…” 😛 I’m still trying to figure out how canning the whole calendar makes any sense as a response to it all. I mean, they didn’t cancel Miss America after the whole Vanessa Williams flap, and that was a significantly bigger deal. ---
**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2007, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-my-sexy-fire-fighters/414642/22 "2007-08-07T01:03:46Z")
Do firefighters wax their chests for safety reasons? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Gengis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/df705f/32.png) [@Gengis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gengis)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2007, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-my-sexy-fire-fighters/414642/23 "2007-08-07T01:25:50Z")
I won’t link directly to the very NSFW site, but here’s a link that does - New York’s bravest, and possibly one of it’s biggest 😉 [Hosed](http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/hosed) ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2007, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-my-sexy-fire-fighters/414642/24 "2007-08-07T02:20:51Z")
[QUOTE=Motorgirl] Do firefighters wax their chests for safety reasons? 😃 [/QUOTE] They don’t wax, all their hair has been singed off fighting fires while barechested. Then they have to rub a soothing oil all over their chests and … uh I’ll be in my bunk. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2007, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-my-sexy-fire-fighters/414642/25 "2007-08-07T09:37:35Z")
I don’t watch much TV, but while spending a week in a hotel in France last year, there was this show on… some sort of talent thing à la American Idol, but these included burlesque, acrobats, dancers, all kinds of talent. One of the contestants was two dozen Paris firefighters doing synchronized gymnastics. I’m still surprised my room didn’t catch fire. Maybe you should get Parisian firefighters next year? I’d like a couple copies of the calendar please! ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2007, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-my-sexy-fire-fighters/414642/26 "2007-08-07T13:15:16Z")
[QUOTE=Antinor01] I was at a convention in St Louis a week ago and the guy in the hotel room next to mine was a very hot fireman (who looks so good in a pirate costume that it makes Cary Elwes look just ok) who I had the fortune to ‘run into’ numerous times over the weekend. [/QUOTE] This… what? St. Louis, really? Firemen in pirate costumes??? What convention was this? Because, that is _so_ not something I’d expect to happen in St. Louis. Maybe some other St. Louis. Where you’d _want_ to see the firefighters in pirate costumes. 'Cause here, not so much. Nice guys, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen one of the waxed-chest-and-barbed-wire-tattoo-on-arm set as a firefighter 'round here (and I’ve dealt with several local fire departments for work-related safety training). Our firefigters are more the “hey, they’ve got that bacon-cheeseburger on a krispy-kreme bun!” type here. I don’t think they sell calendars. thank Og. Although if he was in a hotel room, in a pirate costume, he’s probably not from around here… ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2007, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-my-sexy-fire-fighters/414642/27 "2007-08-07T17:24:23Z")
We still have our [calendar](http://www.firefightercalendar.org/07.cfm) 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2007, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-my-sexy-fire-fighters/414642/28 "2007-08-07T17:27:36Z")
[QUOTE=Lightray] This… what? St. Louis, really? Firemen in pirate costumes??? What convention was this? Because, that is _so_ not something I’d expect to happen in St. Louis. Maybe some other St. Louis. Where you’d _want_ to see the firefighters in pirate costumes. 'Cause here, not so much. Nice guys, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen one of the waxed-chest-and-barbed-wire-tattoo-on-arm set as a firefighter 'round here (and I’ve dealt with several local fire departments for work-related safety training). Our firefigters are more the “hey, they’ve got that bacon-cheeseburger on a krispy-kreme bun!” type here. I don’t think they sell calendars. thank Og. Although if he was in a hotel room, in a pirate costume, he’s probably not from around here… [/QUOTE] He was also from out of town. We were at the Westport for the Simutronics company’s annual convention. Bunch of computer gamer geeks and hardcore partiers. We tend to stay around our host hotel so as not to frighten too many locals. ---
**Author:** ![Nikki\_Tikki\_Tavi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3da27b/32.png) [@Nikki\_Tikki\_Tavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nikki_Tikki_Tavi)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2007, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-my-sexy-fire-fighters/414642/29 "2007-08-07T22:14:36Z")
Looks like we can still order the 2008 calendar. I’ll have to make it a good year so I can relive it over and over again. ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2007, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-my-sexy-fire-fighters/414642/30 "2007-08-07T22:30:13Z")
[QUOTE=Green Bean] Okay, that’s the stupidest thing I ever heard. Is there gonna be a protest? I’m in. But in the meantime, [here you go…](http://www.nydailynews.com/news/galleries/fdny_2008_calendar/fdny_2008_calendar.html?c=0) I’ll take March with a side of January… [/QUOTE] I’d like a manwich of May and December, please. ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Tan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/charlie_tan/32/12582_2.png) [@Charlie\_Tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Tan)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2007, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-my-sexy-fire-fighters/414642/31 "2007-08-07T22:49:52Z")
[snarky] Most firefighters aren’t fighting fires. They hang around chat rooms and brag about their hoses, squirting and use a lot of words like _smouldering, ember, fire, flames_. It’s a miracle any fires anywhere in the world get put out, given the abundancy of “firefighters” spending their time in chat rooms. [/] Aside - being a firefighter is one of a very few truly heroic jobs, and they are really fit, but where did the notion that firefighter=sexy start? ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2007, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-my-sexy-fire-fighters/414642/32 "2007-08-07T23:13:36Z")
[QUOTE=Otto] I want sexy fire fighters too but there are none at the other end of your links. [/QUOTE] Here’s a [worksafe link about naked firemen](http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~kurisuto/rusty/rusty.html) with some of the best dialogue ever written: > [@](#): > > The real shocker came at dinner that night. “I wish a fireman would take off all his clothes and sleep with me in my bed,” said Rusty. “And I wish he would put a dog leash on me.” > > Mother nearly choked on her tomato aspic. “Eat your dinner, Rusty,” said Mother. “And be quiet.” ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2007, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-my-sexy-fire-fighters/414642/33 "2007-08-07T23:18:18Z")
[QUOTE=Charlie Tan] Aside - being a firefighter is one of a very few truly heroic jobs, and they are really fit, but where did the notion that firefighter=sexy start? [/QUOTE] I dunno when it started but the calendar sure went a long way in making that notion stick with me. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2007, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-my-sexy-fire-fighters/414642/34 "2007-08-07T23:30:37Z")
So does it sully the name of the fire department because most of the people who watch the Guys Gone Wild videos are gay men, not women? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2007, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-my-sexy-fire-fighters/414642/35 "2007-08-07T23:40:19Z")
[QUOTE=matt\_mcl] How in the world does having one of your firefighters get nekkid sully the reputation of firefighters? I thought they already had the reputation of being hot. [/QUOTE] I think the problem is that it was a _Guys Gone Wild_ video, which might be viewed as . . . _ahem_ . . . see [here.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=376485&highlight=wild) :o Certainly **nothing** that should be in any way associated with the great City of New York! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2007, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-my-sexy-fire-fighters/414642/36 "2007-08-07T23:46:34Z")
[QUOTE=Charlie Tan] Aside - being a firefighter is one of a very few truly heroic jobs, and they are really fit, but where did the notion that firefighter=sexy start? [/QUOTE] MOVIE HEARTTHROB BRUCE BAXTER IN THE 2005 VERSION OF _KING KONG:_ Look, in real life, heroes don’t look like me. Real-life heroes have bald spots and potbellies and bad teeth. ---
**Author:** ![Omegaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@Omegaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omegaman)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2007, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-my-sexy-fire-fighters/414642/37 "2007-08-08T00:08:40Z")
[QUOTE=Biggirl] I dunno when it started but the calendar sure went a long way in making that notion stick with me. [/QUOTE] I’m not a woman, but my brother is a Captain and my brother in law an engineer. Their wives appreciate them as mens men. Me, their a tad on the juvenile side for the most part. Rubbing ben-gay on each others testicles as a hazing ritual? Somebody’s going to have to pay for that shit. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Omegaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@Omegaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omegaman)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2007, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-my-sexy-fire-fighters/414642/38 "2007-08-08T00:09:51Z")
Oh and before somebody says I’m jealous, I reaaaallllly don’t like touching other guys packages. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2007, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-my-sexy-fire-fighters/414642/39 "2007-08-08T01:09:41Z")
[QUOTE=Omegaman] Oh and before somebody says I’m jealous, I reaaaallllly don’t like touching other guys packages. [/QUOTE] Homophobe. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2007, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-my-sexy-fire-fighters/414642/40 "2007-08-08T01:57:23Z")
[QUOTE=Omegaman] Oh and before somebody says I’m jealous, I reaaaallllly don’t like touching other guys packages. [/QUOTE] I guess a career with UPS or FedEx is out then. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-my-sexy-fire-fighters/414642.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-my-sexy-fire-fighters/414642.md?page=3)