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Febuary 1, 2004.

As of today, an 18 year old would have been approximately 5 at the time.

Given the right kind of character, sure, they might be aware of it. I get jokes about things that happened before my time. Is it a surefire joke that every reader will like and appreciate? Hard to say, and really has more to do with the execution of the joke.

Humor is hard to do.
 
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These kinds of jokes kinda depend on the social background of the family as well as on the brothers and sister your character grew up with.
E.g. I actively started to develop a music taste when I was like 12, but I already knew a lot of 90's songs from both my older brother who is a lot older than me.

So unless your character has been following Super-Bowl since an early age it's rather unlikely. He/she probably must have seen it him-/herself since a 5-year old is not likely to get this kind of information from kindergarden or the news.
 
AwkwardMD said:
Febuary 1, 2004.

As of today, an 18 year old would have been approximately 5 at the time.

Given the right kind of character, sure, they might be aware of it. I get jokes about things that happened before my time. Is it a surefire joke that every reader will like and appreciate? Hard to say, and really has more to do with the execution of the joke.

Humor is hard to do.
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I didn't realize it was that long ago. I feel old.
 
More people would understand it if you referred to it as The Wardrobe Malfunction, or if your joke referred to 'a wardrobe malfunction'. I've literally never heard it called Nipplegate.
 
robertreams said:
What the hell is nipplegate?
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Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson performed together during a Superbowl halftime show. During the performance, Janet's dress became undone exposing one of her breasts and nipples.

This cause a huge uproar, in part, because the event was live and kids were watching at the time. Timberlake and Jackson claimed it was an accident, but because Janet was wearing a pastie (covering her nipple) many people doubted that.

Eventually, the truth came out that it was planned all along. The result was a clamp down (by Tipper Gore and others) on what they perceived as "obscenity" in media. CBS IIRC was forced to pay a multi-million dollar fine for the incident.
 
toetyper said:
would a current 18 year old make a janet jackson-timberlake-nipplegate joke?
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Hey, a 13 year gap there. A rough parallel:

I was about 5 when Elvis was on the national Ed Sullivan TV show with The King's quivering pelvis edited out. 13 years later I was certainly aware that he'd been considered too sexual for TV then, and he was still active (if no longer influential) in music.

Are Justin and Janice still noticeable in pop culture? If your 18-yr-old is an oldies fan, then he'd know of "wardrobe malfunction". Nipplegate, maybe not. That term doesn't really resound.
 
I have two nipples, think I could get a mll for each, well i have no problem with showing my nipples. Wat an absolutely ridiulous thin to get over excited bout. With all the death and suffeeing, shame on them. Don'tthey now that we all have sucked on those things. If I am male of allmost any age,I have seen lots
 
"Nipple Gate"

I'm old enough to remember it, and I never heard of it being referred to as "Nipple Gate."

Also, my recollection is that it wasn't a pastie but a nipple shield. The primary difference is that a pastie would cover the nipple, where a nipple shield is a piece of jewelry held on by a nipple piercing, so the nipple WOULD be exposed.
 
Dream_Operator said:
Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson performed together during a Superbowl halftime show. During the performance, Janet's dress became undone exposing one of her breasts and nipples.

This cause a huge uproar, in part, because the event was live and kids were watching at the time. Timberlake and Jackson claimed it was an accident, but because Janet was wearing a pastie (covering her nipple) many people doubted that.

Eventually, the truth came out that it was planned all along. The result was a clamp down (by Tipper Gore and others) on what they perceived as "obscenity" in media. CBS IIRC was forced to pay a multi-million dollar fine for the incident.
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The furore following that 'incident' had many English people roaring with laughter at
the fuss over a simple 'mistake' [ho hum].
What made it better was the publicity. Janet's nipple was on the front page of almost all the newspapers in the western world.
:)
 
Not only would many readers likely not get it, but the ones who would might well remember it the way I do - two performers who were starting to lose relevance, making a desperate grab for the limelight with a so stupid-it's-not-even-tawdry bit of shockery. The backlash that followed was just as inane.

Bottom line, I don't think I'd mention it in a story here. It's lost whatever relevance it ever had.
 
HandsInTheDark said:
Not only would many readers likely not get it, but the ones who would might well remember it the way I do - two performers who were starting to lose relevance, making a desperate grab for the limelight with a so stupid-it's-not-even-tawdry bit of shockery. The backlash that followed was just as inane.

Bottom line, I don't think I'd mention it in a story here. It's lost whatever relevance it ever had.
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Maybe a passing reference to the publicity ?
 
Would a 5 year old if they were bright and informed enough be allowed to make a nipple joke in Lit?
Hah! Don't make me laugh, 5 year old's don't exist in here. Therefore for a 5 yr old to even mention nipples in here would be a major sin.
 
uksnowy said:
Would a 5 year old if they were bright and informed enough be allowed to make a nipple joke in Lit?
Hah! Don't make me laugh, 5 year old's don't exist in here. Therefore for a 5 yr old to even mention nipples in here would be a major sin.
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From this and previous comments, I get the impression you really don't like Literotica's content rules. What do you intend to do about that?
 
I was in the US at the time, and don't remember it ever being referred to as "Nipplegate."

As a "wardrobe malfunction" (which it evidently wasn't), it has entered the popular consciousness of the country, and that's how I would have heard it. A five-year-old would probably not have known what all the fooforaw was about, but there have been enough references to it afterwards that he would have picked up on at some point. I still hear "wardrobe malfunction" used from time to time as a euphemism for a "nipple slip" or an open fly or something like that, so a bright 18-year-old would have heard of it, too.
 
Is it just my impression or is Tiper Gore the most repressed human being in America? Between the PMRC madness, the "Filthy Fifteen" and her crusade in the wake of the Janet/Justin nip show... Do the Gores have kids? If so, how was she involved? ;)
 
Blind_Justice said:
Is it just my impression or is Tiper Gore the most repressed human being in America? Between the PMRC madness, the "Filthy Fifteen" and her crusade in the wake of the Janet/Justin nip show... Do the Gores have kids? If so, how was she involved? ;)
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Since Tipper Gore is dead, it must be just your impression.
 
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