Beefcake of the Week

What ho, chums!

One thinks of the French as dandyish moppets, as a sort of Franco version of the effete, limp-wristed chaps that Winchester produces by the bucketload.  (Most of whom end up at the Foreign Office, where they take great delight in selling Britain down the river to devious foreigners).  But there is another type of Frenchman.  Let us call him Jean-Claude Headbanger.  One finds Monsieur Headbanger in the French military or, indeed, in its southern rugger teams.  He is most notable for his unusually advanced state of lunacy.  Jean-Claude rouses himself for battle by popping amphetamines, headbutting concrete walls in the dressing room and then foaming at the nostrils whilst he belts out Le Marseillaise.  He does not have quite the phlegm of John Bull but, by golly, he is a fearsome proposition nonetheless. 

There is no finer example than the Biarritz and France loosehead prop, Fabien Barcella.  This beast of a man rose to prominence last Autumn when he brutalised the Boers in Toulouse.  It was a monstering of quite jaw-dropping proportions, utterly shocking to anyone who has never seen the inside of a gaol.  As you can see below, M Barcella is a hefty fellow.  One rarely sees such magnificent farm-yard thighs.  Let us hope that the accolade of Beefcake of the Week encourages M Barcella onto new heights of beastliness.  It would give me great delight to see Paul O'Connell man-shamed in the European semi-finals as brutally as John Smit was in Toulouse.  

(The fellow gawping open-mouthed in the background is thinking: "Mon Dieu!  Le boeuf!  C'est magnifique!")

Yours, etc

Viscount Crouchback

Comments

[Ali's Choice]

Man-shamed eh?

[Brig (Retd) Sir Henry Fawcett-Cooper, MC, CIE, KSA, GSM]

I say Crouchback, must you keep on with this 'beefcake' nonsense? Of course in a life spent devoted to HM's forces, one has come across a fair few of your sort, but must it be so blatant? At least slip in the odd filly every now and then.
Getting hot under the collar about some frog-chewing farmhand adds nothing to the dignity of your position, what?

[Minced Beef]

I dare say that Sir Henry Fawcett-Cooper would have been the sort to tear down or vandalize Michaelango’s statue of David back when it was built in Florence.

[Mr Sheen]

It's called fat, M'Lord.