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31 May 2007
As a take off from the 'Hey Mecha Ladies..'→[More:] what do you call your man parts? I've heard of guys 'naming' their johnsons, but that always struck me as really weird. That and I could never come up with a good one.
Johnson, cock, dick, penis, mutant sausage overlord... Balls, nuts, Kibble & bits... Depends on the circumstances. But I've never anthropomorphised my body parts. Although, now that I think of it, I kind of like "The dick with no name." It could mean so many things!
My Little Pony, My Little Pony
What will today's adventure be?
My Little Pony, My Little Pony
Will there be exciting sights to see?
Where will you wander? Hither and yonder
Letting your heart be your guide!
My Little Pony, My Little Pony
I'll be there right by your side
I'll be there right by your side
Look at it this way, if there were no women (or men, for the gay guys) to impress, would we ever do much of anything besides the bare minnimum for survival or whatever felt good at the time?
Okay, one of the frightening legacies of my crazy ex was that she named BOTH of our parts... mine was Ozzie, and hers was Harriet, which has negatively affected the way I think of the Nelson Family as well as the Osbourne Family and the country of Australia AND the Land of Oz.
I'm boring. Dick & nuts/balls, the standard nonscientific classifications.
However, I can't think of any time when I'd really have to refer to them specifically. Let's say I have a close call with my bicycle seat. When telling the tale to my friend, I would most likely say "I nearly destroyed my junk while biking today."
My friends and I have also adopted Dane Cook's terminology, referring to the whole area as a "situation." This is used mainly for humor.
I was watching some plastic-surgery reality show in which a woman had a big pouch of skin above her pubic mound that she wanted removed. The doctor kept referring to it euphemistically as "her area" while sometimes making slightly odd vague hand gestures toward his genitals. Which just really cracked me up.
So I occasionally think of both male and female parts as "the area."