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.
Do firefighters wax their chests for safety reasons? 
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 
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.
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!
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…
We still have our calendar
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.
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.
I’d like a manwich of May and December, please.
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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.
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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?
Here’s a worksafe link about naked firemen with some of the best dialogue ever written:
I dunno when it started but the calendar sure went a long way in making that notion stick with me.
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?
I think the problem is that it was a Guys Gone Wild video, which might be viewed as . . . ahem . . . see here. :o
Certainly nothing that should be in any way associated with the great City of New York!
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.
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.
Oh and before somebody says I’m jealous, I reaaaallllly don’t like touching other guys packages.
Homophobe.
I guess a career with UPS or FedEx is out then.