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Date:         Tue, 9 Jul 1996 21:40:42 -0300
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         Roy Nicholl <rnicholl@asg.unb.ca>
Subject:      Re: Betty Defined (f)

In article <199607092354.QAA03473@atcweb.atc.1dc.com> jim@atcweb.atc.1dc.com (Jim Ellis) writes:

> From: jim@atcweb.atc.1dc.com (Jim Ellis)

> 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. > >

Gee! ...and all this time I though that Betty and Barnie were the slightly odd, but not far off the beaten path, couple who lived next door to Fred and Wilma....

Bugs & Things & Bricks (driven by Betties and Barnies?)...Oh, my!

Roy

-- Roy Nicholl Atlantic Systems Group Phone: (506) 453-3505 Incutech Centre Fax: (506) 453-5004 B/S 69000 E-Mail: Roy.Nicholl@ASG.unb.ca Fredericton, NB Canada E3B 6C2


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