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

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