This has been a long time coming. Sorry about that. Maybe some of you are glad though. The last FLASH QUIZ question asked was "What interesting names did you have for your genitals as a child?" The answers were of course, interesting. Here's the list broken down by gender.
Male:
• "Nuhonyas." Pronounced nuh-hon-yahs. I got hit in the crotch with a football and screamed, "My nuhonyas!" I don't know where the term came from.
• Never had a name…maybe now…I'll call him my beagle. I could take him for a walk
• My parent's gave me the book "Where Did I Come From" very early on, so I knew to say the word "penis". They were great parents that believed in comprehensive sexuality education.
• Dinky-hinkus
• I called mine meatball cocker
• The first name I remember was "pee-pee." Followed by "tollie". My personal favorites were "weasel" - "I need to drain my weasel," - "dipstick" and "chocolate-rod."
• Pee-pee
• birdy
• plantain, caterpiller or loach
• koochie-pop
• I can tell I am getting old. 1.) I can't remember, and 2.) I am offended by the question.
• ding-dong
• Uncle Ed
• TURTLE
• I had always been partial to Wiener. If I think of anything more creative from my past
• I'll let you know. I liked the Sat morn cartoons quiz better.
• I never got into nicknames for those areas. It's a thing not a person.
• Big Jim and the twins.
• Johnson of course
Female:
• I don't recall having a pet name for my genitalia growing up. I did hear a very cute example of what to call the area - "Princess" even though I don't use that reference myself.
• Just plain old cuchy.
• I don't remember there being any names for my bits and my Mom's bits but I remember that my Dad's penis was referred to as a "pee-pee pipe". Can't make that shit up.
• Doopey (rhymes with Snoopey)
• I know my mom (an OB-GYN nurse) tried to train me to say "labia" but I don't think I ever did. I did once babysit a little girl who announced one sunny Saturday morning that her brother had a penis and she had a "china", but I was never that inventive about it.
• I am however, most troubled when people refer to their vaginas as "bottoms" either to young children or not.
• Only proper terminology allowed for all body parts!! In fact, I wasn't even allowed to pee...only urinate.
• I'm chagrined to admit that my mom always called the vagina a "dinkus." Sad but true.
• I used to refer to my vagina as Zsa Zsell. The "Zs" sound is like Zsa Zsa Gabor. I wasn't sure exactly how to spell it, but I did the best I can. Interesting addition... My 3 year old niece refers to hers as her 'gina.
• My parents were of the "be literal, direct, and don't pussy-foot around" mode of sex education and they told me from the beginning that it was my own personal Venus Fly Trap, a snatch, a heater, a cooze, a fleshy garage for men to park the flesh bus... there were other terms, but I think the trauma of having parents who spoke so frankly caused me to block them out. BTW, I am glad that the Sopranos is bringing the word "cooze" into the common vernacular as that is probably my favorite word to use when speaking of my hoo-ha.
• No name as a child--but as an adult? Cleo (short for Cleopatra--the queen of course)! I am pretty sure that that name was the counter to the name of a male part--too bad I don't remember the details.
• Unfortunatly I did not have any cute names for my "snussy" when I was younger. My parents were very straight forward about the whole sexuality thing (I had that purple "where babies come from" book) so it was always known by me to be a vagina. I was really into the Letter People back then (the puppets in the shapes of letters). Now I don't remember this, but my mom tells me that one day I was running around the house naked saying "v is for vagina" and laying down and making a V with my legs.
• Virginia. That is what I still like to call her sometimes.
• kooter and kootchie
• cauchy pronounced (caughtchee)
• This is my work email, so I must decline to participate.
• I don't remember having a name for it however my Aunt Eleanor called it a "Sally" which creeps me out even to this day!! Where the hell she came up with that I will never know. She would tell me to "go piddle" and wipe my "Sally". Scary!! Thank goodness my mother was normal!
There you have it. Eighteen male and seventeen female responses. Not the most popular FLASH QUIZ. Which goes to show you that some things ARE sacred.
© 2005
Wednesday, May 23, 2001
Monday, April 02, 2001
Have you ever voted for a third party candidate?
Paraphrasing Karl Marx, Emma Goldman called U.S. elections the opiate of the masses. Instead of being involved daily in governance, we surrender our voices, using them only once every four years. Our vote is deemed sacred, private, the ultimate (and only) civic responsibility. As the one time most Americans are politically involved, it is interesting to analyze how we cast our votes.
Ninety-three FLASH QUIZes were emailed, thirty-eight responses were received. Most actually answered the question. The respondents were almost equally split between male and female. All respondents are US citizens. Most reside in the Midwest and Northeast. FLASH QUIZes sent overseas were routinely ignored. Only one Floridian responded (sore subject?). As well only two responses came from the Western US. Guess the energy shortage is having an effect on the response rate. I'm sure it has nothing to do with yours truly.
Of those responding, slightly more than half admitted to voting for a 3rd party candidate at some point in the past. Many of these indicated support for Ross Perot (although no one could agree on how to spell his name. Peroe? Pero?). One respondent even went so far as to say that she voted for Perot adding "didn't everyone?" On the contrary, another stated that she has never voted for a 3rd party candidate "especially not for Ross" (guess she didn't even want to take a stab at his last name). While another admitted to casting a ballot for Perot, but was relieved in hindsight that he didn't win. Thanks for researching your vote first.
Others who named candidates admitted to voting for Ralph Nader, Harry Browne, and John Hagelin. One admitted to voting for "two women I had never heard of." Again, thanks for being an informed voter. The Browne supporter said that he voted Libertarian because they stand for "less government, which means more drugs". It's nice to see good old-fashioned American values at the heart of each vote.
One respondent supported a 3rd party candidate then expressed embarrassment when she heard him speak. Which strikes me as a good reason to include 3rd party candidates in televised presidential debates. The debates would be more entertaining if nothing else. On the other hand, this last election cycle turned up two major party candidates who were painful to listen to as well.
Some respondents made threats to vote for 3rd parties in the future. One said "I intend to vote for the candidate from that party that believes the aliens are coming to save us from ourselves, because except for the alien thing, I agree with pretty much everything else they have to say." Another respondent told of a British party called the Monster Raving Loony Party. It seems they get about 4% of the vote every election "because they are so crazy it is fun to vote for them". Sounds like the kind of crazy fun that drove my ancestors out of Europe. Let's hope it stays overseas.
A respondent irate at the outcome of the last election said he would consider voting for a 3rd party candidate in the future "now that Clarence Thomas and Rhenquist have paired up as the Supreme Selectoral College". Funny, you forgot to mention Antonin Scalia (Sing "Don't Cry for Me, Judge Scalia" to the tune of Evita).
Two respondents confessed to influencing their parents to vote for John Anderson in 1980. That's wholesome, isn't it? Endless months of television, radio, and print ads, bumper stickers, press releases, rallies, mass mailings, and countless other attempts to sway a vote and it comes down to an eight-year-old in a voting booth. Politicos pay attention! This could be an untapped market. You want the soccer mom's vote? Go through her children. Start advertising on Nickelodeon and lunchroom milk cartons. Instead of big business and labor union contributors start a program for soliciting money from the under $5/week crowd.
One philosophical respondent commented, "considering that we are, for all practical purposes, operating under a one party system, it would be technically impossible to vote for a 3rd party candidate." A disagreeing respondent maintains that "all candidates are 3rd party candidates... that squishy middle of the road party that is too pathetic to take a real stand on any issues." Another opinion came from an actual 3rd party volunteer (yes! Someone actively in the streets working at the grass roots level. Someone without an ounce of cynicism in his soul, I'm sure). He included the lament "since corporations own the two major parties you never really heard much about the third party."
Of those who hadn't cast a ballot for a 3rd party candidate a variety of reasons were supplied. One was defiantly opposed to straying from the two major parties stating "I'm against voting for a 3rd party candidate at this point in political history AND I blame all those people who did for our current situation. It seems like a rather self-righteous, precious, indulgent way to make a 'statement' merely for the sake of making one when HELLO there are REAL things at stake.... don't get me started!!" Simmer down sister.
One calculating voter said that he hadn't voted for a 3rd party candidate in the past because he lived in a "swing-state" and usually went for the lesser of two evils. Honorable move. He went on though to confuse the FLASH QUIZer by adding that he now lives in a state that is overwhelmingly Democratic. He thought this year "they'd elect the president by actual count and cast my vote for Gore" too. I'm not sure why he thought the Constitution had changed. Maybe he figured after 200 years the Electoral College would expire automatically. I think it comes down to old habits dying hard. Actually I think he's a bit of an idealistic moron, but I don't want to be rude. The final word comes from a respondent who is also a Planned Parenthood employee. She reports that several donations in George W. Bush's name have been received at her PP office. News from the PP website indicates that the trend is nation-wide. We'll see if the President tries to use them as tax deductions next Spring.
© 2005
Ninety-three FLASH QUIZes were emailed, thirty-eight responses were received. Most actually answered the question. The respondents were almost equally split between male and female. All respondents are US citizens. Most reside in the Midwest and Northeast. FLASH QUIZes sent overseas were routinely ignored. Only one Floridian responded (sore subject?). As well only two responses came from the Western US. Guess the energy shortage is having an effect on the response rate. I'm sure it has nothing to do with yours truly.
Of those responding, slightly more than half admitted to voting for a 3rd party candidate at some point in the past. Many of these indicated support for Ross Perot (although no one could agree on how to spell his name. Peroe? Pero?). One respondent even went so far as to say that she voted for Perot adding "didn't everyone?" On the contrary, another stated that she has never voted for a 3rd party candidate "especially not for Ross" (guess she didn't even want to take a stab at his last name). While another admitted to casting a ballot for Perot, but was relieved in hindsight that he didn't win. Thanks for researching your vote first.
Others who named candidates admitted to voting for Ralph Nader, Harry Browne, and John Hagelin. One admitted to voting for "two women I had never heard of." Again, thanks for being an informed voter. The Browne supporter said that he voted Libertarian because they stand for "less government, which means more drugs". It's nice to see good old-fashioned American values at the heart of each vote.
One respondent supported a 3rd party candidate then expressed embarrassment when she heard him speak. Which strikes me as a good reason to include 3rd party candidates in televised presidential debates. The debates would be more entertaining if nothing else. On the other hand, this last election cycle turned up two major party candidates who were painful to listen to as well.
Some respondents made threats to vote for 3rd parties in the future. One said "I intend to vote for the candidate from that party that believes the aliens are coming to save us from ourselves, because except for the alien thing, I agree with pretty much everything else they have to say." Another respondent told of a British party called the Monster Raving Loony Party. It seems they get about 4% of the vote every election "because they are so crazy it is fun to vote for them". Sounds like the kind of crazy fun that drove my ancestors out of Europe. Let's hope it stays overseas.
A respondent irate at the outcome of the last election said he would consider voting for a 3rd party candidate in the future "now that Clarence Thomas and Rhenquist have paired up as the Supreme Selectoral College". Funny, you forgot to mention Antonin Scalia (Sing "Don't Cry for Me, Judge Scalia" to the tune of Evita).
Two respondents confessed to influencing their parents to vote for John Anderson in 1980. That's wholesome, isn't it? Endless months of television, radio, and print ads, bumper stickers, press releases, rallies, mass mailings, and countless other attempts to sway a vote and it comes down to an eight-year-old in a voting booth. Politicos pay attention! This could be an untapped market. You want the soccer mom's vote? Go through her children. Start advertising on Nickelodeon and lunchroom milk cartons. Instead of big business and labor union contributors start a program for soliciting money from the under $5/week crowd.
One philosophical respondent commented, "considering that we are, for all practical purposes, operating under a one party system, it would be technically impossible to vote for a 3rd party candidate." A disagreeing respondent maintains that "all candidates are 3rd party candidates... that squishy middle of the road party that is too pathetic to take a real stand on any issues." Another opinion came from an actual 3rd party volunteer (yes! Someone actively in the streets working at the grass roots level. Someone without an ounce of cynicism in his soul, I'm sure). He included the lament "since corporations own the two major parties you never really heard much about the third party."
Of those who hadn't cast a ballot for a 3rd party candidate a variety of reasons were supplied. One was defiantly opposed to straying from the two major parties stating "I'm against voting for a 3rd party candidate at this point in political history AND I blame all those people who did for our current situation. It seems like a rather self-righteous, precious, indulgent way to make a 'statement' merely for the sake of making one when HELLO there are REAL things at stake.... don't get me started!!" Simmer down sister.
One calculating voter said that he hadn't voted for a 3rd party candidate in the past because he lived in a "swing-state" and usually went for the lesser of two evils. Honorable move. He went on though to confuse the FLASH QUIZer by adding that he now lives in a state that is overwhelmingly Democratic. He thought this year "they'd elect the president by actual count and cast my vote for Gore" too. I'm not sure why he thought the Constitution had changed. Maybe he figured after 200 years the Electoral College would expire automatically. I think it comes down to old habits dying hard. Actually I think he's a bit of an idealistic moron, but I don't want to be rude. The final word comes from a respondent who is also a Planned Parenthood employee. She reports that several donations in George W. Bush's name have been received at her PP office. News from the PP website indicates that the trend is nation-wide. We'll see if the President tries to use them as tax deductions next Spring.
© 2005
Wednesday, March 28, 2001
What was your favorite Saturday morning cartoon as a child?
This is the third FLASH QUIZ I've proctored. It's also been the most popular - a 65% return rate. I guess I hit on a topic that people like. Except for one respondent who said that she'd think about her answer "over lunch." She still hasn't reported back. She must still be at lunch.
Most of those surveyed fall into the approaching-30 to departing-30 age range. Likewise, the majority of responses indicate a time when Hanna-Barbera was the primary creator of children's weekend television. Patterns are definitely detectable. Three responses were mentioned over and again - Superfriends, Scooby Doo, and the Looney Toons (or Titi & Grosminet in France).
Among the Scooby Doo fans was one purist who felt that the latter day addition of Scooby's nephew Scrappy to the show was "point blank sabotage." This same respondent admitted to a crush on the character Fred. In fact she called the animated man "hot". Interestingly, this descriptor was used by more than one.
Another respondent described her appreciation for the boyfriend character in a cartoon "whose name I can't remember, but it starred a blond cartoon woman named Goldie and she was a model/movie star/private eye type thing. I liked it cause the cartoon guy in it was hot."
The object of another respondent's desires was Aquaman from the Superfriends. "He's a hottie," he wrote. The libidinous overtones of children's cartoons will be the downfall of this great nation. Another Superfriends viewer mentioned his disappointment that the Cartoon Network only airs early episodes of the program. He prefers the later seasons, favoring the Wonder Twins to super heroes in training "Wendy and Marvin and their stupid dog."
A few respondents had counter culture analyses for their favorites. A fan of the Gummi Bears described them as "all the cuteness of the Wuzzles, Smurfs, Shirt Tales, and the Care Bears but with abuse of controlled substances over tones (drinking Gummi juice to get all bouncy? Come on)." Another hinted at a romantic relationship between Johnny Quest's Dr. Quest and Race Bannon. One respondent was so into Fat Albert that she eventually dropped "out of my Saturday morning bowling league. I think that as a lonely black kid in the suburbs, I found validation in Albert and the gang. Also, the Brown Hornet, the carton within the cartoon, was the only black super hero I was exposed to as a child." Well, sure, if you don't count… um… you know… that one.
One respondent couldn't limit her favorite to just one cartoon, but instead enjoyed the entire Saturday morning experience. "It was the 3-hour line up, especially back when you were little and you got up at 8, before your parents, and sometimes you would beat your sister to the TV, and sometimes you wouldn't, but you would love whatever was on, and watch in your PJ's 'til noon." (Umm, that's four hours.) A similar response came from a respondent who wrote that she "got up at 6:30 in the morning and dragged my strawberry sleeping bag out to the living room and camped out for an hour and a half of Smurf bliss." I think people like this are sitting targets for NBC's Must See TV Thursday night lineup marketing.
A handful of respondents are from a time before television. I am amazed that some of them are able to turn on a computer, let alone log into the internet and figure out how to read email. Coming of age during the Second World War and the decades that followed, their answers are thought provoking. It's like tapping into a living piece of history. Like Colonial Williamsburg. One gentleman reported enjoying a laundry list of comics from the Sunday funny pages, "we didn't have TV then". He listed "Dick Tracy, the Katzenjamer Kids, Ally Oop, Steve Roper, the Phantom, and Brenda Starr." I checked into these. Quite a few still exist!
Another Golden Age respondent mentioned her favorite radio show, but remembered more about the experience itself than the program. "It was a radio serial play that had an ad for Buster Brown Shoes--and some memorable voice said 'I live in a shoe...' While listening to it at Joan Lister's house (she was Lutheran, which was somehow related to Germany, and so I wondered if I was fraternizing---sororitizing---with the enemy), we colored and imagined. That was during World War II."
The final response from the over 50 group admitted to watching Howdy Doody and the Mouseketeers at a cousin's house after school but reports that her Saturdays were spent playing outdoors. "We used to play outside more than kids do now. We played kick the can almost every evening. And we explored the woods and fields around us and built forts. Great fun!" (Kick the can? Sounds like something your dominatrix tells you to do.)
A few respondents reported that they didn't watch Saturday morning cartoons. These people typically grew up in developing countries or had communists for parents. One respondent reported, "We didn't have TV. We had to listen to Auntie Kay on the radio or run around in the yard. Of course we did not have much for clothes either, so we ran around half naked." Another tells me that in her house there were "NO CARTOONS ALLOWED...I had to watch Jacques Cousteau, read a good book and listen to public radio!" YIKES! When did you defect to the West, comrade?
Another with a similar tale to tell reported "I didn't watch Saturday morning cartoons - the easiest way to explain would be to say that my family was vegetarian at the time and Saturday morning cartoons seem bizarrely coupled with the consumption of beef." Yet another simply reported "I am a Taiwanese and the networks didn't air cartoons on Saturday morning." The only conclusion to make is that the Taiwanese must not eat much beef. A fan of the animated Pacman turned watching the show into a dining experience. "My grandma would make me burgers or Salisbury steak (yes, that early in the morning-kind of like brunch) and I would pretend they were power pellets! Funny thing is -- even when I see Pacman stuff -- I can still taste that taste in my mouth." On the other hand, maybe there is a connection between watching cartoons and eating beef.
© 2005
Most of those surveyed fall into the approaching-30 to departing-30 age range. Likewise, the majority of responses indicate a time when Hanna-Barbera was the primary creator of children's weekend television. Patterns are definitely detectable. Three responses were mentioned over and again - Superfriends, Scooby Doo, and the Looney Toons (or Titi & Grosminet in France).
Among the Scooby Doo fans was one purist who felt that the latter day addition of Scooby's nephew Scrappy to the show was "point blank sabotage." This same respondent admitted to a crush on the character Fred. In fact she called the animated man "hot". Interestingly, this descriptor was used by more than one.
Another respondent described her appreciation for the boyfriend character in a cartoon "whose name I can't remember, but it starred a blond cartoon woman named Goldie and she was a model/movie star/private eye type thing. I liked it cause the cartoon guy in it was hot."
The object of another respondent's desires was Aquaman from the Superfriends. "He's a hottie," he wrote. The libidinous overtones of children's cartoons will be the downfall of this great nation. Another Superfriends viewer mentioned his disappointment that the Cartoon Network only airs early episodes of the program. He prefers the later seasons, favoring the Wonder Twins to super heroes in training "Wendy and Marvin and their stupid dog."
A few respondents had counter culture analyses for their favorites. A fan of the Gummi Bears described them as "all the cuteness of the Wuzzles, Smurfs, Shirt Tales, and the Care Bears but with abuse of controlled substances over tones (drinking Gummi juice to get all bouncy? Come on)." Another hinted at a romantic relationship between Johnny Quest's Dr. Quest and Race Bannon. One respondent was so into Fat Albert that she eventually dropped "out of my Saturday morning bowling league. I think that as a lonely black kid in the suburbs, I found validation in Albert and the gang. Also, the Brown Hornet, the carton within the cartoon, was the only black super hero I was exposed to as a child." Well, sure, if you don't count… um… you know… that one.
One respondent couldn't limit her favorite to just one cartoon, but instead enjoyed the entire Saturday morning experience. "It was the 3-hour line up, especially back when you were little and you got up at 8, before your parents, and sometimes you would beat your sister to the TV, and sometimes you wouldn't, but you would love whatever was on, and watch in your PJ's 'til noon." (Umm, that's four hours.) A similar response came from a respondent who wrote that she "got up at 6:30 in the morning and dragged my strawberry sleeping bag out to the living room and camped out for an hour and a half of Smurf bliss." I think people like this are sitting targets for NBC's Must See TV Thursday night lineup marketing.
A handful of respondents are from a time before television. I am amazed that some of them are able to turn on a computer, let alone log into the internet and figure out how to read email. Coming of age during the Second World War and the decades that followed, their answers are thought provoking. It's like tapping into a living piece of history. Like Colonial Williamsburg. One gentleman reported enjoying a laundry list of comics from the Sunday funny pages, "we didn't have TV then". He listed "Dick Tracy, the Katzenjamer Kids, Ally Oop, Steve Roper, the Phantom, and Brenda Starr." I checked into these. Quite a few still exist!
Another Golden Age respondent mentioned her favorite radio show, but remembered more about the experience itself than the program. "It was a radio serial play that had an ad for Buster Brown Shoes--and some memorable voice said 'I live in a shoe...' While listening to it at Joan Lister's house (she was Lutheran, which was somehow related to Germany, and so I wondered if I was fraternizing---sororitizing---with the enemy), we colored and imagined. That was during World War II."
The final response from the over 50 group admitted to watching Howdy Doody and the Mouseketeers at a cousin's house after school but reports that her Saturdays were spent playing outdoors. "We used to play outside more than kids do now. We played kick the can almost every evening. And we explored the woods and fields around us and built forts. Great fun!" (Kick the can? Sounds like something your dominatrix tells you to do.)
A few respondents reported that they didn't watch Saturday morning cartoons. These people typically grew up in developing countries or had communists for parents. One respondent reported, "We didn't have TV. We had to listen to Auntie Kay on the radio or run around in the yard. Of course we did not have much for clothes either, so we ran around half naked." Another tells me that in her house there were "NO CARTOONS ALLOWED...I had to watch Jacques Cousteau, read a good book and listen to public radio!" YIKES! When did you defect to the West, comrade?
Another with a similar tale to tell reported "I didn't watch Saturday morning cartoons - the easiest way to explain would be to say that my family was vegetarian at the time and Saturday morning cartoons seem bizarrely coupled with the consumption of beef." Yet another simply reported "I am a Taiwanese and the networks didn't air cartoons on Saturday morning." The only conclusion to make is that the Taiwanese must not eat much beef. A fan of the animated Pacman turned watching the show into a dining experience. "My grandma would make me burgers or Salisbury steak (yes, that early in the morning-kind of like brunch) and I would pretend they were power pellets! Funny thing is -- even when I see Pacman stuff -- I can still taste that taste in my mouth." On the other hand, maybe there is a connection between watching cartoons and eating beef.
© 2005
Wednesday, January 31, 2001
What underwear and shoes are you wearing right now?
Of nearly 100 FLASH QUIZes sent, 43 responses were received. Not a bad return rate. The survey was conducted on Wednesday, January 31 and Thursday, February 1, 2001, entirely via email.
Those interrogated included college friends, co-workers, one boyfriend, a few crushes, family members, and acquaintances. Ex-boyfriends and parents were excluded (cuz there are something's I just don't want to know). One crazy aunt was included. As expected, many distrusted the scientific purposes of the survey and declined to give some information.
One respondent freely supplied information on her footwear, but stated "I don't feel comfortable telling about the underwear because I have no idea what you are doing with this information!" Others were coy in their responses. One respondent described both her shoes and underwear as "clean and comfortable" (code words for Orthopedic shoes and granny undies, I'm sure).
Another said hers were "good ones that fit, but are old like me". A male respondent said that he was "wearing a lovely ensemble designed by Israelis. His shoes are low top desert boots and his panties are wine colored boxers". Another male respondent said that he couldn't be sure of the brand of his underwear because "if my head could reach all the way back there I wouldn't leave the house". Quite true, I suppose. Doc Marten's were popular among women (and one report of Dr. Martian's - the same?).
More than a few knee-high boots were reported, as well. There wasn't a detectable pattern among the men's footwear. Since most men's shoes look alike it probably doesn't matter. Adidas, New Balance, Saucony, and Reebok were common brands among those wearing sneakers.
Black was tops from those listing shoe colors. Red, pink, and a green/brown mix were also reported. A number of respondents of both genders reported wearing no shoes or underwear, sometimes neither. Considering the majority of surveys were returned during business hours, it leaves me to wonder where some of my friends are working.
On the skivvies' side of the survey, boxer shorts were popular among the men, with briefs and the hybrid boxer-briefs not far behind. Eight men (and one woman) reported boxer shorts. Calvin Klein and 2xist were common brands of briefs.
One alliterative male respondent described his underwear as "Bill Blass blue bikini briefs with purple fishies". Say that ten times, fast. Among the female respondents, Victoria's Secret underwear was quite well-liked. Black and blue were common colors.
Not many reported underwear with patterns. A handful admitted to wearing thongs. One noted that she was wearing a thong because it was her boyfriend's birthday (Not what I would have asked for, but different strokes for different folks).
Instead of listing specific brands one respondent noted that "Corporate America already has us way too concerned about brand names". I guess this is true. When it came to mentioning where shoes or underwear were purchased, Victoria's Secret, Target, Walmart, LL Bean, and Banana Republic were reported. Interesting gamut.
To some I may have given the indication that the nature of this survey was to supply information that was inadvertently left off of last year's census. That is a lie. I asked because I was bored and nosy.
© 2005
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