camel-toe (was Re: A headline)

Paul paulzjoh at MTNHOME.COM
Thu Nov 5 13:58:13 UTC 2009


*(I thought you would like to know about the band!*

Hillary Brown wrote:
> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> There's no longer any necessary correction between faggotry and gayness.
>>
>> -Wilson
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>> On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 10:38 PM, Mark Mandel <Mark.A.Mandel at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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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
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>>> The Weatherman.
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>>>
>>> Live and learn.
>>>
>>> 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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