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02 January 2007

Is your betty ready? Questions and music inside→[More:]I was chatting about this dye product, and what they refer to the area to be dyed as, neither one said they ever called it a betty, I said I referred to it as pineapple (B-52s).

1. What do you think of the dye job matching ritual in regard to hygenic safety?
2. Does it even matter if it matches?
3. What pet name(s) do you use to refer to that special region of the female anatomy?

Black Betty - Tom Jones

post by: getoffmylawn at: 21:57 | 28 comments

1. I would assume it could kill off the helpful bacteria around there... So that can't be good.

2. Not at all. I would even venture to say that's creepy.

3. Cookie, bits

posted by youngergirl44 02 January | 22:02

Oh, and my betty is NOT at all ready for that.

posted by youngergirl44 02 January | 22:02

Ok, the people I was chatting with both were amused by this phrase:

"Reapply the color anytime you feel it needs a boost."

posted by getoffmylawn 02 January | 22:12

I'm just happy to hear that there are still women out there with pubic hair.

posted by jrossi4r 02 January | 22:16

Black Betty - Ram Jam

posted by dg 02 January | 22:20

My first car was a black Olds Calais that I named Black Betty. (She was eventually replaced by a blue Taurus named Betty Ford.)

posted by jrossi4r 02 January | 22:24

I'm just happy to hear that there are still women out there with pubic hair.
Huh? Meaning they lost it, or the whole landing strip thing?

posted by getoffmylawn 02 January | 22:40

Yes, goml, millions of women have lost their pubic hair due to a horrible epidemic of Cooter Blight. If you have been spared, be grateful.

(I just meant because everyone keeps shaving/waxing it all off.)

posted by jrossi4r 02 January | 22:43

What's wrong with waxing it all off? I just discovered the awesomeness of the Brazilian wax. Is there some kind of ideological problem with grooming one's pubes?

posted by Twiggy 02 January | 22:51

Where does this leave Betty Rubble?

Or has "Betty Rubble" become another one of those terms for something else?

posted by wendell 02 January | 22:54

Ok, the real question we want to know is: What do you call your betty?

posted by getoffmylawn 02 January | 23:11

But I have a Barney...
Yes, there is a smiling purple dinosaur between my legs and I couldn't be more annoyed. Makes me envy quonsar's pantsfish.

posted by wendell 02 January | 23:22

horrible epidemic of Cooter Blight

Hee.....o man.

*embraces her pubes*

What do you call your betty?

I don't call it any one thing. I mean, you might have a pet name for it but would you refer to it as a cooter or a vajayjay when you're at the gynecologist? Or do you call it by the proper term: "That special place down there between my thighs"? And just for the record I am never going to be able to eat Apple Brown Betty again.

posted by iconomy 02 January | 23:28

Just to be contrary, I'm going to call mine Wilma. But not Pebbles. I'm not that contrary.

posted by taz 03 January | 00:02

I'm just happy to hear that there are still women out there with pubic hair.

Me too. I must be living in a cave, but I didn't know it was de rigeur to go completely bare until a year or so ago.

As far as hygienic safety I suppose it would be okay if you didn't get the dye near the sensitive bits. I couldn't see myself dyeing my pubic hair, but I know a person that does. When she was huge and pregnant and couldn't see her 'betty' her mother dyed it for her. Auburn to match her head. Disturbing.

When my sister and I were kids my mother called it a bumboosey. A bumboosey could be your real bum or the vagina or 'front bum'. I still use the word bumboosey with my boys, but that is just their bum. I don't have any problem with using the word penis. It flows freely around here.

My husband calls it a beaver, and I don't mind that name. I had a vaginal hysterectomy in mid December and my husband would say, "how's the beaver doing?" Fine honey, just fine.

posted by LoriFLA 03 January | 00:11

penis: It flows freely around here

posted by taz 03 January | 00:21

Fine art betty.

posted by LoriFLA 03 January | 00:37

First off, this post is hilarious!

Second:

I just discovered the awesomeness of the Brazilian wax.

Can I just say ouch?! I don't care what people say but no matter how often one goes to get waxed, the pain does not get better. It's not like plucking your eyebrows, because that actually does get better. I'll never forget the last time I went - it frickin' hurt and the aesthetician was like a damn cheerleader - you're doing great! almost done! looking good!

How disconcerting is that to hear when your legs are open and you're laying there exposed to someone who was just a stranger to you?!

Bitching aside though, I'd go back and do it again.

posted by phoenixc 03 January | 00:39

Eh, it did hurt at the time, but fifteen minutes later all was well. My aesthetician and I made small talk suitable for a crowded public space. And the results are SO worth it. Much better than shaving.

posted by Twiggy 03 January | 01:38

I believe when it comes to issues like "wax the snatch" there is only one authority around here... It has always been. But apparently Twiggy is laying claims to the title.

1. Highlights?
2. It may, or it may not. This knowledge costs.
3. mounaki. bad-silly word, please do not use around other greeks

posted by carmina 03 January | 02:14

No claims laid here. I'm just an enamored novice. Who's the queen bee?

posted by Twiggy 03 January | 02:33

I often speak more than I should. Nice to meet you, Twiggy. The queen bee will show up, eventually.

posted by carmina 03 January | 02:42

Are we talking about jonmc?

posted by taz 03 January | 02:43

He would love that, no?

posted by carmina 03 January | 02:48

Nice to meet you, too, carmina.

posted by Twiggy 03 January | 03:05

1. I think if you're careful with the dye you'll be alright.

2. No, it doesn't matter if it matches.

3. No-no place (as in "I'm getting all tingly in my no-no places"), cooter, naughty bits, vagina.

I'm just happy to hear that there are still women out there with pubic hair.

There may be a wee bit of trimming and tidying but I think the majority keep most of their pubes.

I just discovered the awesomeness of the Brazilian wax.

Ouch, just .. ouch.

Cooter Blight would make a great band name.

posted by deborah 03 January | 05:46

I love you bunnies all so very much.

posted by getoffmylawn 03 January | 09:52

The queen bee will show up, eventually.
Are we talking about jonmc?

*waggles cute little stinger*

(as to the post, I find pubic grooming a little wierd myself, but I've been known to rock some weird looks and kicks too, so whatever blows your hair back, I guess)

posted by jonmc 03 January | 11:50

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