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Motokid

Motokid

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"CLEVELAND — "Wedgie," a teenager's locker-room nightmare, has made it into the dictionary.

Webster's New World College Dictionary (search), based in Cleveland, said "wedgie" was among its new additions to its latest edition.

The new edition will carry this listing: "wedgie: noun. a prank in which the victim's undershorts are jerked upward so as to become wedged between the buttocks."

The dictionary also carries the traditional "wedgie" definition: a type of shoe.

"'Wedgie' was always a part of the high school terminology that you sort of never thought about later," said Editor in Chief Michael Agnes.

"It never really entered the mainstream until the '90s. It broke out of high school and, boy — if you don't know what it is, you're absolutely at a loss."

The new edition will reach bookstores by May and has 58 new entries, plus another 20 new senses of existing words (such as "wedgie")."

Can't wait for that to show up on grade school spelling lists. :D

How long do we have to wait for "Atomic-wedgie" to make the dictionary? :eek:
 
Have any of you been wedgied? Is it something that actually is performed outside the television box?

In our culture we do not have such things.
 
Oh yeah. It's real all right. And I don't know where they got their facts from cause it's been around a lot longer than the 90's. I got wedgied in the late 70's and I'm sure it's older than that.

The trick is to grab enough fabric to actually lift the person off the ground, but not have the underwear rip in the process. :eek:

As the person being wedgied you have to quickly try to grab the hands of the person pulling the underwear so as to minimize the amount of wedge that's incurrred.

Overall not a great thing to have happen to you.
 
Yes, Wolhay, wedgies happen.

It's an activity performed by cheerful, active 13 year old boys on little yellow school buses, in cloakrooms, and in locker rooms, with varying degrees of playfulness. Nice girls do not give or get wedgies, they only witness wedgie-giving. I have witnessed many a wedgie. And they do date back to pre-Pakman ancient history.
 
What's a melvin? I know the purple nurple and the noogie.

What about pink bellies, indian burns, and wet willies?
 
"Gosh guys, what the hell are you doing in schools over there???"

......ummmmm....survival techniques.....???? :rolleyes:

almost forgot the dreaded "rat tail" with the wet hand towel or bath towel... :eek:
 
Motokid said:
What's a melvin? I know the purple nurple and the noogie.

What about pink bellies, indian burns, and wet willies?
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A melvin is a front wedgie. I believe that one was coined in the 90s.

Here is a noogie expert doing the deed:

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Rogue, these little torture techniques are just good clean adolescent fun. My school chums also used to play Bad Dog, which was when you throw another kid off the bus or train at a stop on the way to school. But that's nothin.

My hub went to English boarding school. Now they have some interesting practices.
 
I don't know how "clean" it is considering a properly done wedgie almost requires a proctologist to perform the required extraction. :eek:


Also, a wedgie that succeeds in levitating the victim off his feet really captures both the wedgie, and the "melvin" effect all at the same time... :eek: :eek:
 
novella said:
Nice girls do not give or get wedgies, they only witness wedgie-giving. I have witnessed many a wedgie. And they do date back to pre-Pakman ancient history.
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Apparently I wasn't a nice girl! I never received one prior to coming to North America the first time, and let me tell you - it's not a pleasent experience! Let's just say some styles of female underwear are more painful than others!

Too much information?? :D
 
this things are funny, because they excist already, althrough not in a dictionary!!
but over there we have people they are too bored with their lifes that they don't know what to do...so they start to invent new words, nobody knows, wants to know or will ever know!!
like for example, when you're not hungry anymore: you're (du bist) "satt", and then comes an idiot and invented a word for when you're not thirsty anymore: you're (du bist) "sitt"!!
he just changed one letter, made a new word out of it and they had to print all the dictionaries new!!! :D
 
All I know of American High Schools has been learned from watching shows and films such as Buffy, Clueless and The Breakfast Club. All these shows refer to High School as a living hell, which you are lucky to survive. Everyone belongs to groups such as the jocks, the nerds, the princesses etc., which are continually at war with each other, or they are weird loners. If you belong to one group, you cannot speak to, or hang around with, anyone in another group. So tell me - is all this actually true?
 
Halo said:
All I know of American High Schools has been learned from watching shows and films such as Buffy, Clueless and The Breakfast Club. All these shows refer to High School as a living hell, which you are lucky to survive. Everyone belongs to groups such as the jocks, the nerds, the princesses etc., which are continually at war with each other, or they are weird loners. If you belong to one group, you cannot speak to, or hang around with, anyone in another group. So tell me - is all this actually true?
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not there where i am!!! here you can speak to everybody and here are no real fights!! but it is unusual to change your lunchtable when you've been there once!! :D
 
Halo said:
All I know of American High Schools has been learned from watching shows and films such as Buffy, Clueless and The Breakfast Club. All these shows refer to High School as a living hell, which you are lucky to survive. Everyone belongs to groups such as the jocks, the nerds, the princesses etc., which are continually at war with each other, or they are weird loners. If you belong to one group, you cannot speak to, or hang around with, anyone in another group. So tell me - is all this actually true?
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I think the movie version is a little exaggerated at times, but for the most part it was true when I was in HS in the 80's. Some of us had friends in each group and didn't fully belong to one group, which could be challenging. Maybe there aren't so many rules for HS guys, but as a girl, there was a code of conduct we were expected to follow :rolleyes:
Welcome to the Dollhouse gives a true, painful idea of what it's like to be an outcast of HS society.

And yeah, it could be a living hell.
 
Sure, there's some of that. There's also opportunity to do a lot of different things, like band, theater, golf (my son's things) and not be stigmatized. I think kids who like cliques gravitate toward them, especially girls.

But it's sort of like judging English schools by the movie "If . ." (brilliant movie from 1968). My hub says that's pretty close to the hell that boarding school can be, but I'm sure there are people with other experiences.

When I was in HS, most of my friends smoked pot, played Ultimate and guitars, and were good at math and science. I don't think there was a name for that.
 
Miss Shelf said:
what's the difference between a plain wedgie and an atomic wedgie??
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how high the underwear gets pulled up. if it makes it to your ears or over, it's an atomic wedgie.

in my high school there were very clear defined cliques, without the warring. there were over 3000 kids in my school. my grad class was 900 or so. i dated into the popular clique and so was only popular by proxy. there were definitely those who stuck to their crowd, but there were others like myself who drifted from group to group. as a rule i think most people will say their high school years were horrible.
 
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