Things I Learned Today By Staying on an Old College Listserver

• The correct plural form of the word "ho" (as in prostitute) is "hos" despite the awkward appearance of the word. "Hoes" refers to gardening instruments, so check your spelling carefully lest you throughly confuse your friends by calling their mothers "implement[s] with a thin flat blade on a long handle used especially for cultivating, weeding, or loosening the earth." (Merriam-Webster)

And...

• Prostitutes frequently used pubic wigs, called "merkins", to cover their danger zones if they had shaved off their pubes (which was believed to have been a cure for crabs and syphilis.) I assumed that merkins were archaic reminders of medical idiocy, but for some reason (be it for functional or entertainment pusposes) they can still be had. Go to http://www.merkinworld.com and click on "take a look" [the pictures aren't actual photos of said items in use, so consider this site PG-13.] Click on "history" to read up on past and present usage. Leave it to the Brits to try and market something to the general public that has no right to exist outside of the escort industry of the Victorian era.

Just thought everyone should know.