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Subject: Re: Re: Universal language of wet t-shirts?

Date: Fri 07/07/06 10:19:04 GMT

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There's another difference, and it is significant. Most US wet "t-shirt" contests are what I call "bimbos in band-aids." Contestants wear a torn rag across their topsides which is soaked, and comes off almost immediately. Rarely is there a semblance to a t-shirt in the scenario. But the inEuropean contests, German in particular, the contestants will often be fully clothed. We have the delightful scene as they are soaked in shirts with pants, jeans, shorts, or skirts being soaked as well. Then, even though some may even be wearing bras, we can watch a drenched strip operation as they peel of their soaked clothes. This is a great introduction to the actual T-shirt show. Yes, sometimes they strip to bras, and then take them off. But it is a much more fulfilling and stimulating show than the dumping of buckets of water on torn rags which is so often the way US "contests" go.

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Re: Universal language of wet t-shirts?

By Andrew - okmkm@wp.pl Fri 07/07/06 09:40:49 GMT

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It's not always like this. In Poland foam parties and beach parties are called in English, but wet-t conteste are called "miss mokrego podkoszulka", which translates directly as miss wet t-shirt.

Andrew.

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Universal language of wet t-shirts?

By AnthonyX - anthonyx@jowc.net Fri 07/07/06 08:08:36 GMT

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In the clip referenced a couple of posts down, Sonya twice utters the phrase "wet t-shirt contest" in English. This is at least the second time recently I've encountered the phrase used like this - someone speaking in some language other than English using the English phrase.

I find it rather curious that the English phrase is used, rather than some equivalence in the local language (for example, Nässen Sie T-Shirt wettkampf). Obviously, the concept must be universally understood in order to use a borrowed phrase. Perhaps it speaks to the origin and spread of the phenomenon - starting in the English speaking world and likely becoming a well-established American cultural phenomenon before being exported to the rest of the world?

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