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02 February 2008

Can we please stop referring to genitals as "junk"? →[More:]I'm seeing this everywhere on the 'nets now, and it's really bugging me. This is a bad, bad meme. It must be stopped. Only you can stop it, by refusing to propagate it.

Genitals are not junk. They are wonderful, beautiful, mysterious, divine, parts of our beings.

That is all.

post by: treepour at: 05:43 | 28 comments

They are wonderful, beautiful, mysterious, divine, parts of our beings.

So I can I call them my 'parts' instead?

posted by chrismear 02 February | 06:23

No. You must call them "my wonderful, beautiful, mysterious, divine parts."

posted by treepour 02 February | 07:02

I prefer my wonderful, beautiful, mysterious, divine lady garden.

posted by goo 02 February | 07:21

Makes you wonder what that whole "junk in the trunk" thing is about too.

posted by eekacat 02 February | 08:08

Alright. From now on it's "Cash and Prizes."

posted by chillmost 02 February | 08:41

Everyone knows that the guys parts are called the 100% all beef thermometer.

posted by dabitch 02 February | 09:10

It's the land of the free and the home of the brave, but that doesn't seem right. It would explain all the poor, tired and hungry, though.

posted by ethylene 02 February | 09:43

Makes you wonder what that whole "junk in the trunk" thing is about too.

God don't make no junk, except in the trunk.

posted by dismas 02 February | 10:51

Genitals are not junk. They are wonderful, beautiful, mysterious, divine, parts of our beings.

Turns out genitals are one of those things that you have to conjugate, in more ways than one.

*MY* genitals are wonderful, beautiful, mysterious, divine parts of my being.

*YOUR* genitals are parts.

*HIS, HERS, OR THEIR* genitals are junk.

*OUR PUPPY'S* genitals are puppyjunk.* As in, ARGH, I'VE GOT A FACE FULL OF PUPPYJUNK! TURN AROUND, NINA!

*Worse, right now swollen, bleeding puppyjunk. I have their first album.

posted by ROU Xenophobe 02 February | 10:54

Parts is parts.

posted by WolfDaddy 02 February | 11:27

My junk is far from mysterious.

posted by eamondaly 02 February | 11:32

What about

penis = the family jewels

vagina = the safety deposit box

?

posted by iconomy 02 February | 12:37

Actually I am sitting here wondering why it's necessary to refer to genitals online to begin with.

*ponders*

posted by bunnyfire 02 February | 12:42

The internet exists for four things - talking about our junk, displaying our junk, looking at others' junk, and finding others to touch our junk. All other uses are simply happy accidents, much like the evolution of our junk.

posted by cmonkey 02 February | 12:52

Actually I am sitting here wondering why it's necessary to refer to genitals online to begin with.

One of my personal rules for happy internetting: on the internet, I don't have genitals.

posted by Elsa 02 February | 13:02

Balls, Nuts, or Testicles: A Guide to Proper Usage

posted by lukemeister 02 February | 13:02

One of my personal rules for happy internetting: on the internet, I don't have genitals.

Rule 34 is invoked.

posted by matthewr 02 February | 13:41

For some strange reason, when my kid was young, the only penis in the household became known as the "family mushroom."

posted by danf 02 February | 13:43

I'll scratch around in these options and see what's what.

posted by taz 02 February | 14:02

Actually, that was miko's comment in another thread, but I saw it in recent comments and thought it belonged here.

posted by taz 02 February | 14:03

LOL danf!

posted by halonine 02 February | 15:19

I don't refer to my genitals as my junk. I call them my deathhammer.

posted by Astro Zombie 4 02 February | 15:29

You would not have enjoyed working at my office in its heyday. Not only were genitals referred to as "junk" on about an hourly basis, but they were also considered fair game (in the Scientology sense) for rubber band warfare.

posted by middleclasstool 02 February | 15:37

I'm so stealing that danf! Too funny. portabello?

posted by dabitch 02 February | 16:04

When the topic of conversation shifts to my genitals, the preferred term is "wang-dang-doodle."

posted by jason's_planet 02 February | 16:39

I met a DJ named Lance Savage. He meant it.

posted by lukemeister 02 February | 17:35

I call mine "Commander."

posted by jonmc 02 February | 19:47

Also, there's nothing 'mysterious' about genitals. We all have them, as does the better part of the animal kingdom.

posted by jonmc 02 February | 20:10

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