The Seattle Times reports from Mill Creek:
On Tuesday, Associated Student Body (ASB) leaders passed out T-shirts to be worn today on the final day of the annual spring “Spirit Week.” Each shirt was emblazoned with a big “J,” for the school, on the front. On the back, in big block letters, was a word or two meant to describe each class.
Freshman were “Krabby Patty.” Sophomores were “Stain.” Juniors were “Mole Rat.” Seniors were “Burnt Toast.”
Many students had no idea what the words meant, but others said they had sexually suggestive connotations. … Now ASB leaders have asked students to not wear the T-shirts and instead return them to the school.
Maybe I’m just getting older. These don’t seem like terribly flattering class monikers—and you’ve got to wonder what sort of school pride calling students “burnt toast” was intended to evoke—but I’m missing the sexual connotations here. The article points to obscure definitions in the Urban Dictionary that I’ve never heard of. “Burnt toast,” according to the site, is slang for [sic] “A black womans vigana that looks like a peice of black, burnt toast.” But there are bizarre definitions for all sorts of things. A “pancake” is also a “gay male.” If the school serves pancakes, according to the Urban Dictionary, the school must be calling all the students gay males! The word “blender,” of course, means “Oral sex from a girl with braces.” Ahh, everything in the kitchen is a sexual innuendo. No words are safe. If someone mentions a dishwasher, I’m suing!
“We are the Jocks with the huge cocks!”
Well, that’s what we ran around in saying and asking if certian girls drank cum from a champaigne glass.
Now those are sexual connotations that are cery clear!
Urban Dictionary’s model for creating and ranking definitions is a disaster. With Wikipedia you can semi-trust that you’re looking at a condensation of mainstream opinion, but not that other thing. It mostly serves as a vehicle for trolls and pranksters to try to put invented definitions into circulation; in other words it’s redundant to the Internet itself.
When I was in college, “burning/burnt cookies in the oven” was a euphemism for a sexually active woman using birth-control (e.g. “Shirley’s been burning some cookies in the oven”), which I always figured was a spin-off of the old fave, “bun in the oven”. I would hazard to guess “burnt toast” is simply an updated variation on this.
Harsh realm, lamestain.
It’s not about whether those words CAN mean other things, it’s whether the students picked them with those definitions in mind.
Many Seattle high schools pick class names with sexual innuendos in mind. I’m guessing this one is no different.
I’m going to have a bowl of shredded wheat with honey on it.
Can someone make me a mocha?
Domenic – so not hip
So old and out of it, over 17, I bet
This makes me really happy I’m not in high school.
@6 ew, guh-rosss!
I’d like a double shot Americano with room for cream.
Come on tell me what that means?!?!?
ASB officers acted like inappropriately-supervised teenagers? Surely this has NEVER happened before.
if you read the full story, you’ll find that the word “stain” is the one they’re taking issue with. Look that one up in the Urban dictionary.
either way, these people are way too sensitive. If a girl is being offended thinking her shirt means she’s a slut, then she probably is
@9 – what, that’s what I usually make on Saturday mornings …
ok, maybe I’ll have some frosted flakes and a nice cafe au lait just to make you happy. After I down this muffin.
Like someone else said, Urban Dictionary is craptacular. I very much wish they would got out of business, because they foul the internet with their horrible, horrible “service.”
Ahem
Uhm. Associated Student Body? Hah hah hah.
When I was a senior in high school the yearbook staff printed every single one of the sophomore pictures on the same page, about a quarter of an inch wide, and included a cheap Cracker Jack magnifying glass with each book. Trouble was gotten into. Shitting on “stains”, er, underclassmen and women, is an ancient tradition.
I actually had a job where Urban Dictionary was used as a reliable source of information. Can you imagine?