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View Poll Results: Have you heard of a Merkin
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Yes and I can explain what one is
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No
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21.57% |
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My name is 0Of0, so no
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Other (the Gibbo response)
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06-02-2010
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29.9 eek
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The Merkin Poll
As per the thread name
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06-02-2010
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Molto felice
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06-02-2010
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Status:
29.9 eek
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They said you'd do that
Last edited by Icheb; 07-02-2010 at 19:41.
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07-02-2010
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Found one in the bath last week. At least that's what I thought it was - the plug hole had even formed it into a female-friendly shape!
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07-02-2010
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I just love twiglets
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merkin - gerkin....syrup of figs....
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07-02-2010
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07-02-2010
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For great justice...
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oh yes... my wife knows them better than most
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07-02-2010
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All Hell's A Comin'
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It's a pub name!
Like the "Beaver & Merkin"
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07-02-2010
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My heart is not in
this right now.
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I said no, but thanks to Google I do now.
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07-02-2010
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No 000fus0000 yet?
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08-02-2010
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Happy that NZ beat
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Don't be jerkin' the gherkin under ya merkin...
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08-02-2010
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2st 2lb down 1st
12lb to go!
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0of0 might be Lurkin in his Merkin
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08-02-2010
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08-02-2010
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I didn't until Saturday night  & was quizzing most folk on Sunday about their knowledge of 'down below wiggery'
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08-02-2010
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Ah yes, I remember The Merkins, a good little pop group. Didn't they have a top 10 hit back in the 60s with a Beatles cover version?
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08-02-2010
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Is it better to have a Merkin than a comb-over?
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08-02-2010
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record breaker?
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its a fake badger, i mean bea....
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08-02-2010
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dreaming of Spider
weather
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A Meerkat cousin!?
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09-02-2010
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Yes.
As an aside, are you aware why its referred to as 'beaver'?
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09-02-2010
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I was on about this t'other night, we were wondering at what age people generally notice the first grey pube and what they do about it?
Dye
Shave
Merkin
Is this the exhaustive list?
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09-02-2010
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dreaming of Spider
weather
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4.) Don't worry about it!
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09-02-2010
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I have even seen them be used by a man as a 'goatee' beard
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09-02-2010
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Originally Posted by Ronald
Yes.
As an aside, are you aware why its referred to as 'beaver'? 
...go on......
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09-02-2010
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Well...
In the old Vaudeville days, ladies that performed, erm, "exotic dances", were required, by law, to not bare all. Thus the birth of the merkin as an entertainer's costume. And the material used? Beaver pelt.
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09-02-2010
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