[Ads-l] sideboob
Amy West
medievalist at W-STS.COM
Tue Jul 18 12:49:41 UTC 2023
On 7/18/23 00:00, ADS-L automatic digest system wrote:
> Here are two Usenet messages containing "side boob” from 1997.
>
> Usenet message
> Timestamp: Jan 12, 1997, 3:00:00 AM
> Newsgroup: rec.sport.boxing
> Subject: 1/11 Showtime 🙁 vs HBO 😄
> Posted by: Brenda Moran
> https://groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.boxing/c/JFNc5LdwNY0/m/9VYt4qmIzgAJ
>
> [Begin excerpt]
> As my husband noticed, the opening side boob shot of the ring girl
> dressing to open the show.
> [End excerpt]
>
> The citation above was mentioned in a note about the origin of the
> term located here:
> https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/side-boob/
>
> Usenet message
> Timestamp: Jan 19, 1997, 3:00:00 AM
> Newsgroup: alt.tv.highlander
> Subject: NG Guys More Chaste?
> Posted by: lowj
> https://groups.google.com/g/alt.tv.highlander/c/7VyspHQB008/m/H5DAMO1RCPAJ
>
> [Begin excerpt]
> This must be the 90's. Even the side boob shot of Cassandra at the end
> of "Prophecy" didn't instigate a thread.
> [End excerpt]
I read this on digest, so I apologize if someone else has commented on
this, but I think these are not [side boob] [shot] but [side] [boob shot].
---Amy West
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