camel-toe (was Re: A headline)

[Wilson Gray]

I've seen the movie, but I completely missed the point of the name of
the group. In fact, when the later song was brought to my attention by
my then-twelve-year-old niece, she asked me whether I knew what a
"cameltoe" was. When I said that I didn't, she whispered, "It's a
reverse wedgie! Giggle-giggle-giggle!" And I, not thinking to make a
connection between a "reverse" wedgie and *female* anatomy, *still*
didn't get the point of the term, though I had long been familiar with
that style of dress and often had to bite my tongue to keep from
asking the obvious question.

-Wilson

On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Hillary Brown
<hillaryhazelbrown at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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...
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> 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>
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>> > "Camel-toe" was totally new to me. Wikipedia has it (
>> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameltoe):
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>> > =3D=3D=3D=3D
>> > 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.
>> > =3D=3D=3D=3D
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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"
>> >>
>> >> -Wilson
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
–Mark Twain

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