camel-toe (was Re: A headline)

[Hillary Brown]

And John Waters's film "Serial Mom" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111127/)
from 1994 has an all-girl band called The Camel Toes who embody their
name...

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 11:15 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Mark, try to get at least a little hip! ;-) On iTunes, check out the
> old song, Cameltoe, by Fanny Pack, released June 3, 2003. Mansour's
> dictionary came out two years later.
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> BTW, according to tonight's South Park, lexicographers have agreed to
> redefine "fag(got)" as meaning, roughly, an annoying, noise-making,
> Harley-riding, loser asshole dying for attention, among other things.
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> There's no longer any necessary correction between faggotry and gayness.
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> -Wilson
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> On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 10:38 PM, Mark Mandel <Mark.A.Mandel at gmail.com>
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> > "Camel-toe" was totally new to me. Wikipedia has it (
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameltoe):
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> > Cameltoe is a slang term that refers to the outline of the labia majora
> seen
> > through tight clothes.[1][2] Male organs showing through clothes at the
> > crotch may be called moose knuckle.[3] This slang was depicted in the
> film
> > The Weatherman.
> > ====
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> > Live and learn.
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> > m a m
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> > On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 9:48 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> >> Heard on Comedy Central: "cooch-grabber" used for "camel-toe"
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> >> -Wilson
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