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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Thongs are WRONG! :Shocked: If your goal is to blind the town then yes by all means strut your stuff in a thong but other wise stick to your tidy widies! :Grin:
http://www.pioneerthinking.net/cgi-bin/ … 92527188/0
This is one where width is in question. Otherwise the fairly common tidy-widies seem to be, how you say, assonant? Rhyming reduplication?
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Actually, I thought the comparison of “tighty-whities” and boxers was the reason to create the saying. I do like the width-factor, though.
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