I grew up in a family in which belly button was considered crude language. Pharts were "tootsies," as in; "Did someone tootsie in here? Shouldn't you excuse yourself?" Butt was also a dirty word. You should hear me now.

When a boy from my high school ended up in the emergency room because a "flamer" followed its fuel source and burned him in the nether regions, I was simply dumbstruck. Who would ever do that? Who ever thought of it in the first place? Fire and that particular function are, like, a surrealistic teaming. Who lit the first one, and WHY? Of all the cool, weird things a human body can do ...