Smile For the Camera
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Does our collective heart go out to soon-to-be former Navy War College professor John Schindler whose penis was apparently tweeted, so to speak?
Perhaps not.
The tweet was of a text message which included a different sort of member ID.
Included in the press coverage is an email purportedly written by Mr. Schindler.
He is a former NSA analyst who is divorced, re-married, right wing, religious and who knows a “vixen” when he sees one.
Busy guy.
The Pose
It seems there are only two basic schmekel poses: the easy one and the hard one.
Mr. Schindler says his is the easy one but he might be “pulling our leg”, or his.
If you wish to judge for yourself, the link is at the end of this story.
Aren’t schmekel shots curious?
First, there’s the taking of the photo in the first place.
The whole idea must be to share it as it’s pretty familiar geography for the owner and it’s not exactly frame-worthy.
But, let’s be honest, most people don’t want or need to see a pic of your schmekel.
And, you wouldn’t want most people to see such a picture.
Which means you must be sending it to someone you don’t know at all or barely.
What a first impression.
This is not the old snail mail polaroid snap shot either.
This is digital and a click and a drag away from world fame.
“Honey, is that you?”
Proof of Schmekel
Is the digital schmekel meant to “wow” the recipient?
If so, perhaps it’s best to include a note, “not to scale.”
I suppose that it’s fine to be schmekel proud, but still, you could be selling yourself short, in more ways than one.
As they say, schmekels come and schmekels go.
Schmekel talk has a proud history.
Word emerged recently that U.S. President Warren Harding, in an earlier and gentler time, wrote about his schmekel to his mistress naming it “Jerry.”
Perhaps in our digital tell all/show all world the schmekel shot, easy or hard, is here to stay.
One thing is for sure, if Mr. Schindler wrote the email accompanying the photo, his biggest schmekel is right between his ears.
* Yiddish for small penis
Schmekel Link: https://twitter.com/a_girl_irl/status/481135505300398080/photo/1