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Very reasonable guess -- thanks for getting to the point...
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It sounds like an absurdity to me. Sharing one's underwear seems a bit excessive, or hyperbolic.
As for the Latin term, "ventris," wouldn't that literally be "of the belly," not "of the womb?" The Latin term for womb is, as far as I know, the same as our synonym for it, "uterus."
As for FTL, I see that as "Futile." After all, Fruit of The Loom went broke last year, and changed the name upon restructuring, if I recall rightly.
And welcome to the asylum, TIVTRANS!
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As for the Latin term, "ventris," wouldn't that literally be "of the belly," not "of the womb?"
Geoff, for what it's worth, ventre means both "womb" and "belly" in Portuguese.
Anyway, here's something I don't think has been addressed yet: we have both expressions, "fruit of the womb" and "fruit of the loom." How/when did one beget the other, if that is indeed the case? Was this a stroke of marketing genius on the part of the underwear boys or did it happen before?
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as explained at one of those sites I gave above, it was the stroke of genius of a woman labeling her families products. I doubt she had womb in mind but more likely the output of their looms, although who's to say whether there might have been something subliminal going on.
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who's to say whether there might have been something subliminal going on.
Indeed, you never know...
I'll look at the links now.
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Looking up "venter" I got a surprise in the second meaning:
2 Law the womb: used in designating maternal parentage, as in children of the first venter, meaning “children of the first wife”
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?children of the first wife?
Talk about being reduced to a sexual object!!
[white]Wherefrom did ye get them disparate quotes, Dr. Bill?
And why did they turn into ?s? All I done din was copy and paste.[/white]
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Shouldn't we answer the actual question instead of pretending to be AEnigma?
Come, come now, consuelo. Wouldn't want to give tivtrans the wrong idea about us.
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Dear consuelo: I double dare you to make appropriate interpretation of the original question.
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No need to go double-daring. "Shirt off my back" or something similar is so far the most reasonable interpretation I've heard. The underwear logo originally connected nice pictures of fruit with the word "fruit" in the already-chosen name.
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