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#1 2006-07-06 00:47:06

maxjenius
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#2 2010-11-20 17:02:54

David Bird
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Re: tighty whities vs. tidy whities

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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#3 2010-11-20 19:50:05

Tuxedoray
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Re: tighty whities vs. tidy whities

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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