[Rob Instigator]

 

[Rob Instigator]

fixed it

[cryptowonderdruginvogue]

bahaha

[cryptowonderdruginvogue]

 

[!@#$%!]

no fuckin way!-- that's a fake, right?

no???

[Rob Instigator]

camel toads
the next thing in gonzo porn

[!@#$%!]

so is that article, you know, "real"?

[Rob Instigator]

yes it is, as far as I know. lt me do some research.

[Rob Instigator]

Snopes.com says it is true. the lady wrote an advice collumn for a local library.
http://www.snopes.com/risque/tattled/cameltoad.asp

[atari 2600]

The advice columnist certainly seems to be a real person, and the column most likely reads just as it appeared.

However, the query letter is rather obviously a fake. It's a joke.

C'mon, do you really buy the "...he had spilled iced tea all over the desk when writing it, and it damaged a lot of papers" line?
Give me a break.
In the reply, the advice columnist alludes to it all at face value, but I suspect she was just pleased to receive such a notably strange letter.

This leads me to deride the ratiocinative abilites of all who have replied in this thread.

Now if the above bit concerning the spilled iced tea had not been present, I would then have been inclined to think that, yes, it is indeed quite possible that the child of the person that wrote the letter genuinely but erroneously assumes that the locution is "camel toads" instead of "camel toes," and that the godparent doesn't know any better themselves. But, per the usual, the hoaxer took things too far in their subterfuge.

That's fun stuff, Rob. Thanks for it.

[floatingslowly]

one hump or two.?.?

[terminal pharmacy]

 

[EMMAh]

That's really funny.
Stupid old people...

[pbradley]

Would fit into the Onion perfectly.

[gmku]

I agree with Atari. The letter writer was obviously taking the piss with the columnist. It's very obvious. The accidental spilling of the tea on just the right lines. Come on. The columnist probably knew it too, but thought it would be a clever way to get a little sanitized sexual content into her column.

[pbradley]

So, anyone down to put together a psychedelic burnout punk band under "Camel Toads"?

[atari 2600]

Haha, yeah, good idea.

[█████████]

 

q:
i'm a well-instructed young man, mentally stable, but i'm always talking with my penis.
if i'm alone, i talk him about my problems, and i always have a talk with him before having intercourse.
i know it sounds crazy, but for some reason it makes me feel good with myself. do i have a problem?
a:
yes! you do have a problem!
but let's be realists, who doesn't?
inumerous men and women talk with their teddy bears, their image reflected in a mirror, or even with deceased friends and family members.
as long as you dont start talking with your penis in public, why worry? think him as an adult version of an imaginary friend that everybody,
at a point of their lifes, already had! and it's great you both have that good relationship, and it migth be that someday you will find a partner willing to take part in the conversation! now, promess me that if someday you get an answer from your penis you will look for help!

[atari 2600]

Originally Posted by gmku

I agree with Atari. The letter writer was obviously taking the piss with the columnist. It's very obvious. The accidental spilling of the tea on just the right lines. Come on. The columnist probably knew it too, but thought it would be a clever way to get a little sanitized sexual content into her column.

Yes.

Of course, upon occassion people definitely spill drinks all over papers. No one will dispute that.

The way, however, that the incident is worked into the letter asking for advice is telling. It's as if the real author wanted to cover their bases with the addendum. Or, in other words, in case the reader doesn't find it especially plausible that a kid is mixed up concerning the phraseology of "camel toes," the spillage story also supports that the godson actually may have the expresssion right, but that the hopelessly clueless godparent is, unfortunately, misreading a damaged paper.

And yeah, this all, of course, assumes that a real letter was sent in the first place. Like gmku, I don't believe this Leslie Potter woman would fake the letter itself. Although, yeah, the letter sufficed to spice up her column, she doesn't strike me as the Howard Stern type (haha) that might stage everything.

Much more likely is that the satrical letter is the work of a starving, frustrated writer.
Pranksters have been known to send in letters like this, especially to to minor publications. I'll also venture a guess that they probably use drugs too. And just maybe the author of the letter is one of her "younger, hipper coworkers" themselves. It's funny to think about the author deliberating over whether to make the person sending in the letter a parent or a godparent. And I can imagine them puzzling over whether to use a line about a drink spilling or not. I can mentally picture them wrestling over what kind of drink spilled, or whether or not to mention the type of drink at all. All in all, I think there's a good chance the whole parenthetical part was added almost as an afterthought.