THE THINGY BLOG

No this isn't becoming a sex blog. No come back! There is plenty of them in blogland to choose from but there is also a lot of sex in blogland and that's where the difference is.
Here though for now - we are talking sex(ish) or are we really talking words and language?
For one I was disgusted reading the reports of the students that were suspended from college for performing The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler

John Jay High School, NY
In March 2007 at an open-mic night at John Jay High School in Cross River, New York, three female students reading from The Vagina Monolgues used the line: "My short skirt is a liberation flag in the women's army. I declare these streets, any streets, my vagina's country." The female students were subsequently suspended. The suspension is on hold while the school's policies are reviewed as a student who used the word "fuck" at the same event was not suspended.

and equally disgusted by the following report

The Hoohaa Brouhaha
In February 2007, a comedy club owner of the Atlantic Theatres in Atlantic Beach, Florida changed the title to the "Hoohaa Monologues" after a complaint from a passing driver who became upset because her niece had seen "vagina" on the theater marquee. The word "vagina" was only restored by the theater owner once the producer of the event made it clear that rights to the play were granted only if the production was not subject to censorship.

So it came about that a blog friend and me were talking about names for the vagina as you do in blogland, and out of that blog comment I furnished a list of names, thank you Google!
Now I do have a problem being a Brit! My favourite term for the Vagina, <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vagina >> happens to be FANNY which of course means something totally different on the North American continent and it can be quite an embarrassment, if you don't realise that some people don't know! Words like fanny bag of course don't help! Useless info spot : The plural of vagina is vaginae!
Then the North American word as well as fanny for the bum, back side etc is ASS which I like but us Brits once again don't use the word ASS more ARSE. Oh but never fanny!
Moving swiftly on to the PENIS, a horrible word, << Latin and originally meant tail http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penis >>
Now I did find that really funny because once again the front door genitalia (!) really means the rear door!
Maybe we should adopt a common language and just use cunt, cock and butt!
One of the funniest things that I found out though puts a whole new meaning to the expession, "a yard stick" and maybe why men are prone to slight exaggeration when it comes to size matters.....

/Prior to the adoption of the Latin word in English the penis was referred to as a "yard"/!!!!!!

Wow here we go look out world here I come!!

In the research for this no living animal was hurt and no offence intended!