[Sca-cooks] Re: Time fantasy article/wedgies

[Patricia Collum]

A wedgie is to grab the top back of someones underwear and pull up as hard
as possible wedging them in tight, is that the same?

Cecily
----- Original Message -----
From: "Margaret Rendell" <m_rendell at optusnet.com.au>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2002 10:15 PM
Subject: [Sca-cooks] Re: Time fantasy article/wedgies


> I've got to ask...although I never thought my first post to this list
> would be about underpants gone feral.
>
> Johnnae llyn Lewis  Johnna Holloway
> wrote
> >
> > While out shopping at 8 am this morning to avoid crowds later,
> > I noticed that the Dec 2nd issue of Time magazine was devoted to the new
> > Two Towers movie.
> >
>
> On reading the Time article, I came across the following sentence:
>
> "Tolkien inspired an American insurance salesman named Gary Gygax to
> quit his job and create Dungeons and Dragons, the fantasy role-playing
> game that launched a million junior high school wedgies."
>
> Does 'wedgies' mean the same in the US that it does here?
>
> Margaret Rendell
> Emma de Lastone
> Canton of Krae Glas, Stormhold, Lochac.
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