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[fpb]

The fandom can be a nasty place. I just had the unpleasant experience of getting to know a woman who is, one, a skank, and, two, proud of it. Ugly. It's like trying to make a slug understand that leaving a slimy trail behind is nothing to be proud about.

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[privatemaladict.livejournal.com]

Oh dear. I don't think even I've ever called anyone a skank, and I'm just four years out of high school... Suddenly, I feel so mature. (Though I have called someone a cow. And a bitch. And a skanky ho, though that was to a friend, to her face, and she knew I was joking.)

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Well, I could have used whore, but then there would have been an implication that the person concerned was doing it for money. Or slut. Or tart. Well, there is a choice, anyway.

[gunderpants.livejournal.com]

A cornucopia of sleaze.

[privatemaladict.livejournal.com]

Well, while we're on the topic, I'm sure you've heard this one:

Q: What do you call a Spice Girl in a toaster?
A: A Pop-Tart!

*slaps thighs, giggles...*

Okay, it was funny when I was 13...

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Very nineties. Poptarts and Spice Girls were invented at roughly the same time, as I recall.

[(Anonymous)]

Poptarts date from 1964. Off by a few decades there.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

I never saw them before about 1995. Little failure of marketing there.

[bufo-viridis.livejournal.com]

Eeem... What is a poptart? M-W doesn't show anything, bartleby too and I don't have subscription to OED.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

It is a kind of breakfast cake, rather like a sealed sandwich with sweet content, meant to be heated in the toaster. It is a "tart" (sweet cake) that "pops" (from the toaster). Obviously, British tabloids have taken to calling the likes of Britney and Christina by the term.

[neigedens.livejournal.com]

Dude, without Pop Tarts those kids I babysit would be dead right now.

No, really, they're little toaster pastries that come in a variety of flavors. I'm told they have about the nutritional value of cardboard. But they're easy, which is why they are worshipped by overworked moms and lazy babysitters everywhere.

[(Anonymous)]

They were everywhere in the '80's. Probably depends upon location, then.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

My times in the UK:
1977-78 Canterbury (Kent, UK)
1980-81, 84, 85-86, Oxford
1987-present, London.

[(Anonymous)]

Being as Kellogg's is originally an American company and some things are not marketed equally worldwide, that probably explains it.