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Tramp Stamps, aka...?

Colleen Kane — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:30:00 GMT

You learn something new every day. While perusing an item on Gunaxin, regarding how Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue model Danica Patrick's tramp stamp (a most ill-advised morph of an American flag into a checkered flag) had been Photoshopped out, I learned of some international terms for the tramp stamp.

Australia, Germany, and Netherlands: "arse antlers"

UK: "slag tags"

Another American term: "California licence plates."

What, no "splattoo"? That works for both men and women. Then there's the really ill-advised frontal tramp stamp on men, but the nickname for those escapes me, and I couldn't find it online: Chump stamp?

Are there any other pet names for this marking?

Video of the Day: Linda Hogan Has a Tramp Stamp

Via Gunaxin

A Beaver Is A Woman's Best Friend (In Australia)

Katie Halper — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:30:00 GMT

Australians were scandalized by a television ad featuring an innocent, adorable, harmless beaver who spends her day doing lady-like things with a (human) female friend. So why were there an "unusually high" number of complains about the commercial? Because the ad is for Kotex's "U" line of tampons, and ends with a voice over that says "You've only got one. So for the ultimate care down there, make it U." The word beaver is never uttered. But it's the combination of the ad's HVC (High Vaginal Content) and the imagery of the beaver that offends. Of course, Kotex doesn't see it as offensive at all. It's inclusive and even democratic, since the beaver idea was based on a survey on genital nicknaming.

Turns out, the target of Kotex's campaign, 18-24 year old girls, have pet names for their you know whats. Kotex discovered that 94% of the women they polled are on a nickname basis with their privates, and found 181 different names to choose from. And guess what came in as the 11th most popular name? Beaver! A Kotex rep explains "people use euphemisms to make themselves feel more comfortable about talking about their own anatomy." Now, we happen to like the ad because we're suckers for cute animals. But we wouldn't use the euphemism defense. Euphemisms are "the substitution of an agreeable or inoffensive expression for one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant." Euphemisms, in other words, are the g rated translations of R or NC 17 or X rated terms. So, when could beaver sound like a euphemism? "I got my beaver checked and it's clean, thank god." "I hope he finally tries to put his penis in by beaver tonight!." Does explaining to a little kid that while men have penises, "women have beavers," sound euphemistic? Or raunchy?

So watch the ad and share your thoughts on beaver: offensive or cute?

Photo from Beaver Power

Totally Bummed by Our Sawyer Nickname

Emily Farris — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 20:14:00 GMT

We've recently become addicted to LOST. We caught the end of last season and learned a few days ago that we can watch every single episode from every single season in HD on ABC.com. We're trying to watch the first three seasons before Thursday night, when a new episode airs, but it's been keeping us up until 3:30 or so every night and we're not even halfway through the first season. We forget how prolific television was before the writers' strike.

Anyway, we got super excited about Sawyer's Nickname Generator at ABC.com, because how cute is Freckles? Well, we're not so happy with our nickname. Not at all. In fact, we're almost heartbroken. Could he not come up with anything better for us?

Generate your Sawyer nickname here. We hope it's better than ours.

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Tramp Stamps, aka...?

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