Thom Fitzpatrick 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...
> 

This term has also transferred over to the snowboarding world.  Although as far as 
I can tell it has lost the negative association it used to have for surfing.  Now 
it just seems to mean "board babe" (no political incorrectness intended) although 
this may be a purely Canadian phenomenon.

And what do big purple dinosaurs have to do with surfing anyway?

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