A Zits for the weekend, on adolescent males and the language used to talk about them:
The initialism DWM traces back to DWI, for the legal term Driving While Intoxicated (compare DUI for Driving Under the Influence), surely mediated by DWB (Driving While Black-or-Brown), which is a (somewhat bitter) play on DWI.
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August 7, 2010 at 8:48 am |
The VW bus, complete with daisies, is curiously anachronistic (and the notion of a bus doing a wheelie, or even breaking the rear wheels loose, is ludicrous).