# Bedtime Trivia; or, Flashbacks to Elementary School **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 27, 2006, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedtime-trivia-or-flashbacks-to-elementary-school/341905 "2006-01-27T20:32:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2006, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedtime-trivia-or-flashbacks-to-elementary-school/341905/1 "2006-01-27T20:32:46Z")
Last night, laying in bed beside my husband, I was fondly and thoughtfully stroking his chin hairs, when I observed that the hairs growing closest to his lip were very white. “Blonde,” he informed me, but I was gazing at his lower lip, already disinterested in chin hairs. I stuck my bottom lip out while observing his. “Your lip doesn’t dip in like mine,” I say, touching my own bottom lip and feeling the chin under it slip sharply away. I have no chin. “Your lips are plumper than mine,” he explains, but already, I have moved up, and am observing the area just beneath his nose. “Yours is different than mine,” I say, touching the indent above my top lip. My husband giggles. “Yes,” he says, yours is smaller and deeper." “Yours is wider,” I say. As I am pondering this, my husband uses the opportunity to say something, and perhaps keep me tied to one thought for more than two seconds: “What is that called, anyway?” I shrug. “I knew once,” I thought aloud. “Now I call it a ‘nose ditch’.” This makes him laugh. But I am lost in thought, trying to remember what that little trench is called. Finally, I burst out, excitedly, “_Perineum_!” My husband looks at me quizzically. I frown. “No, wait,” I say, eyes widening. “That’s down by your _ **bag** _!” My husband is suddenly sitting up, overcome by great, gasping gales of laughter. “_BAG_?!” he asks. “_ **BAG** _?! Where did you get _that_ one?” Suddenly, I realised: I hadn’t used that term since elementary school. I also hadn’t heard it since elementary school. This tickled the hell out of me and I began laughing, too. There are a million other terms for it, some related to bag: sac, ballsack, nutbag, etc. But just _bag_, I haven’t heard or used that since I was too young to know what the hell it even _was_. Did anyone else used to call it that? Does anyone _still_ call it that? Does anyone still use terms they learned in elementary school, or remember how they used to refer to certain things? Ah, well. _Bag_. It made for an amusing night. ---
**Author:** ![Rasa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rasa/32/3578_2.png) [@Rasa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rasa)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2006, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedtime-trivia-or-flashbacks-to-elementary-school/341905/2 "2006-01-27T20:38:02Z")
Hm, don’t think I ever used “bag”, but the “nose ditch” is called a filtrum. I know this cuz when I was a kid, I used to get made fun of because mine is apparently rather deep and when I smile, it squishes and becomes horizontal. “Like a Hitler mustache!” kids used to say. ::sniffle:: I’m scarred for life. ---
**Author:** ![Susie\_Derkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@Susie\_Derkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Susie_Derkins)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2006, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedtime-trivia-or-flashbacks-to-elementary-school/341905/3 "2006-01-28T00:58:33Z")
When kids made fun of your filtrum, you shoulda shown them your perineum. “Who’s scarred for life _now_, bitches?” ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2006, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedtime-trivia-or-flashbacks-to-elementary-school/341905/4 "2006-01-28T05:53:36Z")
> [@Rasa](#): > > Hm, don’t think I ever used “bag”, but the “nose ditch” is called a filtrum. [Philtrum.](http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/imagepages/9012.htm) As a twist on Gaudere’s Law, the page I’ve linked to in order to correct a spelling error features an orthographical blunder itself. > [@](#): > > Originally posted by **MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia** > In some syndromes this _grove_ is shortened. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2006, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedtime-trivia-or-flashbacks-to-elementary-school/341905/5 "2006-01-28T23:55:00Z")
I would just like to point out that when I “mouse over” the thread title in the forum listing all that shows is > [@](#): > > Last night, laying in bed beside my husband, I was fondly and thoughtfully stroking his and before clicking on the link I considered what you could have been stroking that would give you a flashback to elementary school. I refuse to comment on my reaction to finding out what it was you had been stroking.