Date:         Tue, 9 Jul 1996 16:54:26 -0700
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         jim@atcweb.atc.1dc.com (Jim Ellis)
Subject:      Re: Betty Defined (f)

rs@ham.island.net was askin for a definition of a slacker "Betty."

>>"Thom Fitzpatrick" <thom@calweb.com> wrote:
>
>A betty is a surfing term used to describe the non-surfing women 
>who hung around the surfing crowd.  There was also the corresponding
>"barney," but nobody seems to use that...
>
>Ellis further clarifies:
>"Betty" is an abreviation of a reference to a cult like following of Bettie
Page, the 1950's porno S&M "goddess." To anyone apparently born prior to
1965, the current piercing of everything imaginable (and beyond!) and
leather collars, leather Brando "Wildone" motorcycle hats, chaps, vests,
handcuffs etc. as rather typical of the Sado-Masochistic or kinky leather
crowd. Now-a-days it's "just the style, Dude!" The Betty Page reference has
all but been lost. 
>
>A "Thrashing Betty" is a chick (er ah, young lady) who
surfs/skates/snowboards and has moves/cuts with the best of them. A Thrasher
girl.
>
>"Thrashing Betty" was what Mr. and Mrs. VanBondo called their Black '57
Oval prior to selling it. =((( It seemed appropriate if we didn't come to a
COMPLETE stop prior to shifting into first gear.
>
>As used in a "proper" sentence:
>
>Whoa Doot!, Scan the Betty! Like she's (a) totally "blown" thrasher, mon!
(i.e. fuel injected belt driven blower intake sys on a dragster).
>
>Proper response:
>"Yeah brah!" or 
>"Whoa!" or 
>"No Ha-Whey!" or 
>(insert glazed catatonic look with no verbal response).
>
- "barney" ellis\
(a real "No Ollie" Fossil who hasn't skated since boards were Queen Marys,
skate boards were metal skates under 2x4's, and "Pet Sounds" was new).