A short while back, I heard someone make reference to a ‘merkin’ in a joke…not knowing what that was, I asked. He insisted that in the 14th and 15th century, women wore pubic wigs (called a ‘merkin’), and they were considered very stylish (???).
Can someone gimmie the dope on this?
The All-Knowing One covered this:
Thanks, Doc.
Think I’ll head to the after X-mas sale at Macy’s and see if I can pick one up.
Now we can appreciate the very clever character name for the President of the United States, played by Peter Sellers in Stanley Kubrick’s “Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb”. And that name is (was) “Merkin Muffley!”
And let’s not forget Anthony Newley’s “Hieronymous Merkin” (as well as “Mercy Humpe”).
I had a PolSci professor who was a political genius. I loved going head to head with him on a political issue. He was a thrill to argue with.
His name was Harry Mirken.
–Tim