Wedgie Watch UK

[steepholm]

Okay - my children watch a lot of Cartoon Network and The Simpsons, they may well have seen have seen The Mask, and even gazed (if unsmilingly) at a couple of Dilbert calendars. In all these contexts wedgies are very common - virtually ubiquitous indeed. But never has either child come across such a thing being done in their own schools. Have they just been particularly unobservant? Or can it be that wedgies have failed to follow Trick or Treat and Heelys across the Atlantic? Or perhaps wedgies exist only in cartoons, like burglars with bags marked 'Swag'?

Has anybody anywhere had personal experience of wedgies, either as victim, perpetrator, helpless bystander, or washer of soiled underclothing?

Comments

[emmaco.livejournal.com]

I never exoerienced or witnessed a wedgie in my Australian childhood so maybe they never made it here either!

Also, when I read wedgie, I read "wedge tailed eagle", which meant I read your title and thought "aren't they Australian birds?" :)

[gair.livejournal.com]

Nope. (But then I think they might be a boy-specific thing, and I didn't play with boys much when I was little.)

[(Anonymous)]

Two of my kids have had wedgies done to them - it's pretty much a boy thing. But they'll talk (or used to) of 'getting a wedgie' when their underwear inflicts it on them of its own accord.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

Thanks for this - the first recorded sighting! Can you tell me whereabouts you're located? I've got a world map, and box of pins with flags on, but so far nowhere to stick them...

[(Anonymous)]

North-east of England.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

Thanks! A pattern is beginning to emerge... but it's too soon to say if it's wedge-shaped.

[scholars-blog.livejournal.com]

This is something I also know about only secondhand - largely as a result of American media (books/TV shows)...

Michele
http://scholar-blog.blogspot.com/

[lady-schrapnell.livejournal.com]

(Didn't get to LJ at all yesterday.) James. Southern California birth, bit of time in Minnesota, Upstate New York for grad school. (Three pins in one!) He still gave them (I say with whatever dignity possible), though my understanding is you're supposed to grow out of the whole idea by early teens at the latest.