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Popping The Cherry

In Site on 12 September 2009 with Comments Off

In the event someone actually requires the definition, the phrase “popping the cherry” (at least according to Urban Dictionary) means one of two decidedly related things.

Most generally, it simply means the process of losing one’s virginity. More graphically, however, it can refer to the circumstance (although I’ve applied some copy editing here) in which “a male penetrates a virgin female too fast, and rips or tears the hymen, causing the vagina to bleed slightly.”

It is with those definitions in mind, then, that someone once used the phrase as the subject line of the very first post to the Bandwidth forum on an old system called MindVox (scroll down if you really want to find it), and I myself used it as the title of the very first entry to a now-defunct weblog with which you might, possibly, be familiar.

It is that particular usage upon which I’ve called in the past to inaugurate two different incarnations of a prior website, and it is that usage upon which I call yet again as I inaugurate this one, clean of content and starting out in a state of innocent purity, a virgin with a miraculously new and fresh cherry to pop.

For what it’s worth, I don’t tend to talk this way in actual conversation. But it’s become a long-standing tradition to open a new site this way, and there’s no reason to stop now.

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