[OT] Um, Mipple-Stipple??

This will probably be as baffling to non-US residents as it is to
me, and possibly to many US residents as well.

Someone I know made reference to "the Mipple-Stipple area", which was
so weird sounding that I decided to google it. I got a few references,
but no explanation. I'm gathering from context that it's referring
to the "Twin Cities" area of Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota.

Am I right? If so, what is the story behind that moniker?

If I'm wrong, does anyone know what it does refer to?

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On 2009-06-13, wrote:
This will probably be as baffling to non-US residents as it is to
me, and possibly to many US residents as well.

Someone I know made reference to "the Mipple-Stipple area", which was
so weird sounding that I decided to google it. I got a few references,
but no explanation. I'm gathering from context that it's referring
to the "Twin Cities" area of Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota.

Am I right? If so, what is the story behind that moniker?

If I'm wrong, does anyone know what it does refer to?


Take a few letters from Minneapolis-St. Paul and you get Mpl-StPl. Say it
out loud.

Minneapolis frequently is abbreviated Mpls. Baltimore becomes Balto.
Memphis becomes Mfs. And so on.

Bud

William Hamblen wrote:

wrote:

Someone I know made reference to "the Mipple-Stipple area", which was
so weird sounding that I decided to google it. I got a few references,
but no explanation. I'm gathering from context that it's referring
to the "Twin Cities" area of Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota.

Take a few letters from Minneapolis-St. Paul and you get Mpl-StPl.
Say it out loud.

LOL, thank you!

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I think it refers to a type of exotic body modification.

wrote:
This will probably be as baffling to non-US residents as it is to
me, and possibly to many US residents as well.

Someone I know made reference to "the Mipple-Stipple area", which was
so weird sounding that I decided to google it. I got a few references,
but no explanation. I'm gathering from context that it's referring
to the "Twin Cities" area of Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota.

Am I right? If so, what is the story behind that moniker?

If I'm wrong, does anyone know what it does refer to?

Although I was born and brought up in St. Paul, I never heard that term
used! (It's true I moved to California after college, but I still have
relatives there, and I've never heard them use it, either.)

Takayuki wrote:
I think it refers to a type of exotic body modification.

LOL! (Although, given the current obsession with large, elaborate
tattoos, I suppose it's only a matter of time before someone decides to
opt for a body-match to his/her tabby-coated feline.) ;-)

"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote:

Takayuki wrote:

I think it refers to a type of exotic body modification.

LOL! (Although, given the current obsession with large, elaborate
tattoos, I suppose it's only a matter of time before someone decides to
opt for a body-match to his/her tabby-coated feline.) ;-)

It's been done! I've seen a program about a guy - don't remember which
channel it was on - who was transforming himself via tattoos, implants
and other surgeries into some sort of feline-appearing being. He had
stripes, long whiskers, a tail, "fangs" (ie, feline canine teeth), and
was still in the process of modifying himself further. It was probably
one of those "extreme makeover" shows.

Now that's a guy with a weird obsession and a whole lot of discretionary
income!

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Takayuki wrote:

I think it refers to a type of exotic body modification.

That would be the Nipple-Mipple-Stipple.

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