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You'll have to hold the ladies back after they get a glimpse of these tighty-whities."

They understand the value of a good pair of tighty-whities...

Is he wearing the same boring old tighty-whities until they attain transparence?

And he nervously wonders what kind of underwear ("tighty-whities or boxers?")

I told him I didn't like tighty-whities.

British model David Gandy is a strapping advert for a pair of tighty-whities.

But some dreams refuse to die, and few, it seems, are more resilient than the dream of beating the market while wearing nothing but tighty-whities.

Charlie dances around his house in a pair of tighty-whities and dons a pair of Wayfarers.

A panic-stricken middle-aged man, wearing little more than a gas mask and tighty-whities, is driving a dilapidated RV across the desert.

On his blog, artist Nathan Peter has done a remarkable job of capturing the essence of White's threads - including the tighty-whities and hazmat suits.

And who could forget the famous H & M commercial with that long hard look at tattooed soccer phenom David Beckham wearing nothing but his tighty-whities?

Yet unless you strain to get into heavy fashion-theory territory (nudity is socially constructed: see Anne Hollander), there's not much one can say about a muscular blond in tighty-whities.

I don't know about you but all I want is a stronger economy and not to be blown up by Iran or a crazy guy with a bomb sewn into his tighty-whities.

To help them regain some of the machismo lost while lumbering around in tighty-whities, there was Dodge, making a pitch-perfect appeal for its Charger muscle car to the good-husband set.

The latest Emporio Armani underwear ads show David Beckham in all his glory, but rumor has it the soccer star may have had some help filling out his tighty-whities.

Behind that strategically placed red, white and blue guitar, a pair of tighty-whities are wrapped around what he proudly calls his "striated glutes," with "Naked Cowboy" scrawled on the back side.

Teenagers and 30-year-old men alike continue to stand in front of me on the subway, giving me an eyeful of their tighty-whities, which in many cases have ceased being both tight and white.

We all know how territorial the Naked Cowboy is about Times Square (a place all too familiar with flesh-baring), having sued Mars for the Naked M&M’s appearance in tighty-whities.

Tanner P(ervert), who has an uncanny ability to make an uncomfortable situation even worse, then decides to show Jillian what he sleeps in by pulling down his pants to reveal some extremely tight tighty-whities.

Tyler's vulnerability, crawling into be in his tighty-whities, might just be uncomfortable, except for the way Eileen sees his discomfort and helps him to expose himself in an even more difficult way: "Look at me."

Barry, the nearly naked man on C Street, said he sees the contours of a fig-leaf compromise: Manning could be reunited with his boxers but, for his own safety, denied contact with the more elastic tighty-whities.

The nearly 9-minute-long video also finds him in such compromising positions as doing full body stretches in tighty-whities, interpretive dancing in black tights and a pink fur vest, and carving into the back of his companion, a female model.

The series is set in Albuquerque, but some of the most memorable settings are in the desert-Walter White waiting with a gun in his tighty-whities, Walt and Gus staring each other down gunfighter-style across a wasteland.

(And this probably isn’t Ms. Laux’s fault, but the cover illustration showing a flurry of phallic flora and fungi bursting from a pair of tighty-whities could probably keep a gaggle of 12-year-old boys giggling for a good 10 minutes.)