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Mystery of the tingling nether regions
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Oct. 5, 1999 |
The new craze is apparently catching on in dorm rooms and frat houses around the nation and on military bases around the world. "Guys pass around the Gold Bond Powder and dump it down their shorts for a cool, tingling sensation in their sensitive areas," explains Kirk Martin, brand manager for the mentholated powder in the old-fashioned yellow bottle. Nor is it a trend only on college campuses, Martin reports with considerable pride. "We've gotten a lot of letters from military cadets, who call it 'the powder from heaven,'" he says. "A lot of guys in the Kuwaiti desert apparently used it during Desert Storm, not only because they didn't have very good hygiene out there, but because it brought them a little bit of fun." The company has even launched a billboard campaign promoting the "party in your pants," in hopes of bringing "closet Bonders" out into the open. The guys who use it, says Martin with a remarkably straight face, "just get so excited about it." I'll bet. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - More passionate than the young Americans? "We're only Protestant because it was inflicted upon us, but I think underneath it is this great writhing, ritual- -- David Bowie on his fellow Britons. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Ear chomp, round 2 Is someone messing around with Mike Tyson's medicine again? The fighter says -- if the setting was right -- he'd happily take another bite out of Evander Holyfield's ear. "I would do it again under those circumstances," Tyson recently told the Los Angeles Times. "[Referee] Mills Lane wasn't protecting me [from head butts]. He didn't handle the situation appropriately ... Yes, [I would do it again] if I'm bleeding and I'm cut." Amy Reiter Amy Reiter's column appears daily on the People site, Monday through Friday.
Got a hot tip? Tell Amy! But please, gentle readers, see if you can't find it in your hearts to pity poor Tyson, who will venture back into the ring later this month. After all, the man's doing it for the kiddies. "If my children will live a better life than I did by my getting brain damage, by my being brain dead," he said in a rare philosophical moment, "then let it be." - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - And now for something completely different ... "It was the dirty little show the kids weren't supposed to watch." -- "South Park" creator Trey Parker on the illicit appeal of "Monty Python's Flying Circus." - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Juicy bits So much for playing doctor. Apparently taking a page from her legacy-obsessed dad, Chelsea Clinton, who once aspired to become either a pediatrician or a cardiologist, has switched her major at Stanford from chemistry to history. "She wasn't enjoying chemistry classes and was much more interested in history, religion and social studies," an unidentified source told MSNBC's Jeannette Walls. "She's always been interested in religion and the welfare of people. Who knows? This could signal that she's going more in the direction of her parents' careers." Sen. Clinton Jr.? Fine. Just so long as Rudy Giuliani's wacky son stays out of politics. Some say it with flowers; others with ice. Glass artist Dale Chihuly built a 64-ton extension made of Alaskan arctic diamond ice onto the 3,000-year-old walls of Jerusalem's Old City on Sunday. The sculpture, which will melt into a puddle by Wednesday, symbolizes the melting walls between people of different backgrounds at the outset of the new millennium. "The ice wall is my way of saying 'Thank you' to Jerusalem," chirped Chihuly, who volunteered on a kibbutz back in the '60s. It certainly makes a bigger splash than sending a crummy old card. The Body has a message for the Terminator: Stay out of politics. "My advice to Arnold as a friend is, continue with your movie career," Jesse Ventura ventured on NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday. "Don't get involved in it. It won't be worth it to you." But you'll get it all back in spades when you come back as a bra. Here's a winning campaign slogan for White House-eyeing actress Cybill Shepherd from the editors of the Richmond Times-Dispatch: "The only potential candidate seen naked by Elvis Presley." That's one for the billboards, but have you Times-Dispatch folks double-checked it with Warren Beatty's people? And you always thought Gee-Dubya got his trash mouth from Barbara. George Bush the elder has a self-proclaimed "vulgar streak" and a fondness for Monica Lewinsky jokes, Sam Donaldson claims in TV Guide. "Although I couldn't get [Bush] to tell me the latest [Monica joke] he had heard," Donaldson said of a "20/20" interview with the ex prez, "I think he is at the point in his life where he has the freedom to say exactly what is on his mind." Does this mean we no longer have to read his lips ... or his hips?
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