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Must admit, I'd never heard of it before, someone sowed the seed and a UL was born.
Austen said:Legends about Girls Schools seem to go the other way, ie, extreme prudishness.
The two I have heard are:
1: Electric toothbrushes are banned.
2: Bananas have to be eaten using a knife and fork (I've also heard this is how all the upperclass eat them).
Any one know the truth of either?
Elffriend said:Dining etiquette dictates that it should be peeled with a knife and eaten with a knife and fork.
She can look suggestive eating a cheeseburger.Austen said:I wonder if anyone actually bothers to do that? Nigella Lawson is very posh and she wouldn't worry about looking suggestive with a banana.
Inspector Loz said:incidentally, I used to know someone from Oz band 'Bean Flipper'...there was a theory that the band name was due to another band member's ability to flip a baked bean on his 'member'...my friend denied this!!!
Originally posted by Epona
you eat pears with a knife and fork, not bananas.
Hell, who doesn't like to think of guys spankin' it on bread? Damn! Now I gotta type one-handed.Inspector Loz said:I think this may an UL perpetuated by private school GIRLS due to the fascination with male bonding and er....male 'issues'
Originally posted by Mythopoeika
didn't anybody ever consider the possibility of getting some kind of disease from it?
Anome_ said:The only Australian reference I've heard to it involved a SAO. (And Sea Scouts, but that's not that important.)crypto said:This game seems to be geographically quite wide spread. We have it in Australia too. When I went to high school there was one boy who was nicknamed "soggy" for obvious reasons. I always wondered whether they used a small biscuit or something larger like a sao or a sandwich sized salada.
My understanding is that in Britain, they use a digestive (like a Shredded Wheatmeal kind of).
(For the British: a SAO is a cracker type biscuit. Somewhat similar to a Water Cracker in consistency, but not quite. It's supposed to have been designed for the Salvation Army. If you already knew this, then I guess I must look pretty stupid.)
Although the origins of the term are unclear, it is thought to have originated in Australia sometime in the 1960's[1], and is now a widely known concept, at least in the United Kingdom and parts of the Commonwealth
At the risk of debasing this message board even further....what are the 'sweetcorn' stories?
Quake42 said:A good friend of mine swears that an acquaintance of hers had a sweetcorn experience (FOAF, yeah yeah I know)... in essence this chap got a nasty infection in his foreskin and when he went to the doc it turned out that there was a piece of sweetcorn stuck there as a result of him indulging in... er, well, you know... with his girlfriend who was a great fan of csweetcorn despite the fact that it, well, doesn't digest terribly well.
I haven't checked Snopes but it wouldn't surprise me if this is on there... it screams UL but she is insistent that it happened to someone she knows and to be fair she isn't the type to make things like this up!
All very unpleasant in any case... :cross eye
DanTheGPI said:Has anyone heard of a variant of this game called Bean flipper?, It involves putting a baked bean somewhere and then umm being the first to 'shoot it off the end'. I was told its a game played by roadies.
First post and oh how classy it is.