[QUOTE=xilman;407752]I'm guessing that you recognized the analogy between a merkin, a sporran, a codpiece, a penis-gourd, [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsies"]falsies[/URL], bosom pads,[SIZE=3][B] [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_history_of_the_buttocks"]human female buttocks[/URL][/B][/SIZE] and peacock tails. All make very good sense from a Darwinian perspective.[/QUOTE]

Tastes vary with regard to these parts depending both on the gender and orientation[COLOR=Red]**[/COLOR] of the viewer, and consequently, on the gender of the viewee. :smile:

EDIT: Of course, being male is no more likely than being female to bestow callipygian characteristics.

[COLOR=Red]**[/COLOR]...and taste in butts...

[QUOTE=LaurV;407792]That is how I learned another name for zucchini, hehe...[/QUOTE]

I saw Spinal Tap in concert way back in, I think it was 1989, at the Pine Knob (he, I said "knob") outdoor amphitheater near Detroit. I can honestly say that it was the funniest rock concert I've ever attended. In a nod to the famous airport metal detector scene of the movie, during one of the songs the bassist Derek Smalls (a.k.a. Harry Shearer) walked around the front the of the stage, tossing foil-wrapped zucchinis to the audience from a large box. Another funny moment was during the song "Big Bottom," when the famous Spinal Tap demonic horned skull prop above the stage suddenly spun volte-face, revealing a backside in shape of, well, a backside, with a plume of smoke issuing from the arsehole.

Re. codpieces, cf. the Blackadder episode in which Edmund decides to frighten all the ladies at a court soiree later that evening by wearing his huge "black Russian" model.

Of course we also have that famous medieval male shoe fashion involving what are basically normal shoes with penis gourds affixed to the toe section. Forget what the shoes are called, but it seems in modern times the sportscar has come to serve much the same role.

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[b]Edit:[/b] Correction: The Tap concert was Friday, 19 June 1992. (I saved my ticket stub and tucked it into the cover art of my [i]Break Like the Wind[/i] CD, which the concert tour was promoting.)

[QUOTE=ewmayer;407815]Re. codpieces, cf. the Blackadder episode in which Edmund decides to frighten all the ladies at a court soiree later that evening by wearing his huge "black Russian" model.[/QUOTE]
This was probably an early version of the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wobble_board"]wobble board[/URL], judging by the sound which rang out when one of those ladies passed Edmund by.

[QUOTE=kladner;407796]Tastes vary with regard to these parts depending both on the gender and orientation[COLOR=Red]**[/COLOR] of the viewer, and consequently, on the gender of the viewee. :smile:

EDIT: Of course, being male is no more likely than being female to bestow callipygian characteristics.

[COLOR=Red]**[/COLOR]...and taste in butts...[/QUOTE]I'd suggest the orientation of the viewee is at least as important. It can be rather difficult to evaluate a backside from the front side, unless there's a conveniently place mirror or camera.

[QUOTE=xilman;407842]I'd suggest the orientation of the viewee is at least as important. It can be rather difficult to evaluate a backside from the front side, unless there's a conveniently place mirror or camera.[/QUOTE]

Heh! I'll have to be more careful about using words with indeterminate associations. :rolleyes:

[QUOTE=xilman;407842]I'd suggest the orientation of the viewee is at least as important. It can be rather difficult to evaluate a backside from the front side, unless there's a conveniently place mirror or camera.[/QUOTE]

If it's a live-viewing context, you could always try using your sense of touch...

[QUOTE=ewmayer;407873]If it's a live-viewing context, you could always try using your sense of touch...[/QUOTE]
Assuming a bustle didn't get in the way.

Reverse-psychology time!

o Easterly (adj & adv):

• If referring to other than wind: in an eastward position or direction : [as adj. ] [i]the captain ordered an easterly course[/i].
• Of a wind: blowing from the east, i.e. westerly : [as adj. ] the light easterly breeze rapidly conveyed the sloop on its westerly course.

o Insoluble (adj): Not soluble.
o Inflammable (adj): Very flammable.

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o Valetudinarian (n): The top of your hypochondriacal class.

opinion(noun): Pie hole. Brush regularly and see a dentist. Repeat.

opinion(noun): small o-shaped [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinion"]gear[/URL]. Pronounced approximately oh-pinion.

[QUOTE=LaurV;413580]opinion(noun): small o-shaped [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinion"]gear[/URL]. Pronounced approximately oh-pinion.[/QUOTE]

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