Earlier tonight, I posted something about the sign in front of my small town’s historical museum and how it had been vandalized (if you can really call the reshuffling of vinyl letters on a flimsy plastic board, vandalism). As I mentioned, given the adolescent reference to a certain bodily function in the sign (post-vandalism), I chose not to include a photo… But, as quick as you can say “RSS,” I started getting notes from readers after posting it, demanding that I stay true to the mission of this site (whatever that is) and get my ass out there with my camera to document the offense. So, I got the dog and hiked over to Huron Street, in the rain. And here’s the photo… I hope it brings you some pleasure. (I should point out that I did not contact the museum to make sure that there wasn’t in fact going to be a historical retrospective on local queefing. So, if you’re into such thiings, you might want to make a call, just in case. I’m 99% certain, however, that “queef” was meant to be “quilt” though.)
update: The following comment was just left by our friend Alicia. I didn’t think it possible, but she’s come up with a plausible explanation as to why the sign might be switching back and forth from “quilt” to “queef” (other than vandalism):
Actually quilts and queefs are related, which this exhibit may demonstrate.
Just as, I’m told, men sometimes pass gas in all-male company in a joking, male-bonding ritual, queefing (originally quilf, with a silent “L”) originated in quilting circles where performing this otherwise socially unacceptable act reinforced the group unity.
For further reading on this subject, see “Of Knickers and Needles: The Normative Function of Vaginal Gas in Colonial Female Communal Identity,” (more here and here.)
So, with this in mind, I’ve just formulated a new theory — Ypsi is home to a prank playing female ghost, who, in life, had been the member of a local quilting circle… Legend has it that she died from an embolism during a meeting of said quilting circle, after sucking in too much air for the purposes of delivering a humorous queef. To this day, people claim to be able to hear the faint call of her queef as they walk along the banks of the Huron at night.