[HPFGU-OTChatter] Beavering away

[Ladi lyndi]

--- Tabouli wrote:
> and "thong" (which in Australia
> always meant a rubber flip flop sandal with a
> thing between the toes, and is a bit of a
> national icon) is starting to raise giggles
> because of its American connotation of
> G-string.


Lynn:

I grew up knowing that a thong was a rubber flip
flop sandal, that's what we always called them
ourselves.  But then, if there was thong
underwear back then, it was strictly a backroom,
under-the-counter kind of thing.  I think it was
sometime in the 90s when I had to force myself to
stop calling them thongs and start calling them
flip flops otherwise people didn't know what I
was talking about.

Lynn

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