[Ads-l] sideboob

[Laurence Horn]

A supersized version of pits and bits…

And I can imagine the deodorant commercial:

Thigh folds and buttcracks and gray collar rings
These are a few of my favorite things.

LH

> On Jul 18, 2023, at 2:10 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> As some of you undoubtedly know, commercials for a newly developed
> deodorant formula mention "underboobs," as well as "pits, privates, thigh
> folds, and buttcracks."
> 
> JL
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> On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 2:05 PM Chris Waigl <chris at lascribe.net> wrote:
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>> Yes - I don't know what the referenced photographs look like, but a [side
>> boob] shot and a side [boob shot] would be visually quite different.
>> 
>> On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 4:49 AM Amy West <medievalist at w-sts.com> wrote:
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>>> 
>>> 
>>> 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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