No More Words

I was in Victoria's Secret today buying a pair of panties (by the way, Mr. Flossy is gonna LOVE 'em!) and it got me thinking about a couple of friends of mine who are TOTALLY freaked out by the word...

Panties.

Huh. When I first heard this, I of course immediately started saying the word "panties" out loud over and over just to see their reaction. One put her finger in her ears, the other cringed and threw up her hands in a very Charles Nelson Reilly kind of way. These girls are sisters, by the way, and in addition to this weird quirk, they also have phobias about, respectively, coins and Teletubbies.

But that's a blog for another day!

Getting back to the word panties. (I'm sure they are cringing right now if they happen to be reading this blog!)

Their OTHER sister, a good friend of mine, told me that she isn't thrilled with the word panties, but she doesn't have as violent a reaction to it as she does to the word "squat". Unfortunately, she happened to reveal this to me while in the car with my older son. With his empathetic nature inherited from his mother, my son immediately started saying "squatsquatsquatsquatsquatsquat".

After polling a few OTHER friends, I've compiled a list of words that my friends really don't like:

Ointment
Salve
Tunic
Folks
Bisque
Creamy
One-Cup (?)
Scrotum (can't blame her for THAT one!)

Personally, I don't care for the words smock, buttocks or pinnies (as in, "We're going to have a scrimmage between this team and that team, would one team please put these pinnies on).

I would prefer that you cover up your buttocks with a smock or a pinnie!

If anyone out there has any words that really set their teeth on edge, please feel free to post them to the comments section. I'd love to know that there are other freaks out there, just like us!