{"id":4149,"date":"2009-07-20T06:26:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-20T00:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=3452"},"modified":"2009-07-20T06:26:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-20T00:56:00","slug":"boob-euphemisms-and-nip-slips-without-nips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/boob-euphemisms-and-nip-slips-without-nips\/","title":{"rendered":"Boob Euphemisms and Nip Slips Without Nips"},"content":{"rendered":"
A few days ago, readers Anoop Bhat and Kaushal Desai separately emailed me to point me to this marvellous gallery by The Times of India<\/i>:<\/p>\n
Biggest assets in Hollywood<\/a>.<\/p>\n It’s a gallery about big breasts in Hollywood, and the captions are quite hilarious. Note the many euphemisms for boobs that they use, clichés and variations on clichés, all of them: ‘steaming big naturals’; ‘twin assets’ (three times); ‘busty bosom’; ‘hot twin peaks’; ‘accentuating curves’; ‘enhanced fuller twins’; ‘real nice set of bombs’; and so on. I wonder if copy editors are trained in this kind of writing—I’d really like to see the manual.<\/p>\n *<\/p>\n And today, I came across a completely WTF gallery: <\/p>\n Celebs Peek-A-Boo Moments<\/a>.<\/p>\n This is a gallery of ostensible nip slips—with ToI<\/i> blurring out the nips when they slip. Given that this is an internet gallery, and that the uncovered nips are a search away, this is most bizarre. Why have a gallery of nip slips and cover the nips? What’s the point?<\/p>\n (Note that I noticed the gallery only due to my purely academic interest in WTFness. That’s not the kind of headline you expect to see on India’s No. 1 newspaper site. I have no interest in nips or twin assets. Really.)<\/p>\n *<\/p>\n ToI<\/i>‘s galleries are rather interesting from a sociological perspective, actually. Here’s another one:<\/p>\n B’wood’s desirable bed partners<\/a>.<\/p>\n The captions, the captions…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A few days ago, readers Anoop Bhat and Kaushal Desai separately emailed me to point me to this marvellous gallery by The Times of India<\/i>:<\/p>\n Biggest assets in Hollywood<\/a>.<\/p>\n It’s a gallery about big breasts in Hollywood, and the captions are quite hilarious. Note the many euphemisms for boobs that they use, clichés and variations on clichés, all of them: ‘steaming big naturals’; ‘twin assets’ (three times); ‘busty bosom’; ‘hot twin peaks’; ‘accentuating curves’; ‘enhanced fuller twins’; ‘real nice set of bombs’; and so on. I wonder if copy editors are trained in this kind of writing—I’d really like to see the manual.<\/p>\n *<\/p>\n And today, I came across a completely WTF gallery: <\/p>\n