About a year ago 'Toothing' was the hot new thing everyone was talking about (well, okay, that a few people were talking about). It was the idea that people were using bluetooth-equipped mobile phones to find sexual partners in public places such as commuter trains. Toothers would beam messages to other people with mobile phones, 'Hey, wanna hook up?'... and if the answer was affirmative then off the two would go. This practice got a lot of
media attention, but it's turned out that it was all a hoax dreamed up by Ste Curran and friends.
He tells the story here. He decided to spill the beans after people on
Slashdot (
Jim Hanas in particular) started wondering what had ever become of the toothing craze. Jim contacted Curran, who was the creator of the original toothing forum, and got the confession. Curran states that:
Despite all the made-up ramblings on websites across the globe, despite the forums and the fan-fiction, the tabloids and the broadsheets, the perverts and the simply curious, no-one has ever ever, ever toothed. There's always the possibility that toothing was real and Curran is lying when he now says that it was a hoax, but given the two options I think it seems more plausible that toothing was always a hoax.
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So imagine my surprise when just last Tuesday a blonde temptress took all her clothes off on the train and lured me into a private compartment with me.
Imagine my further surprise when on the next day, the Wednesday I met another blonde, blue eyed temptree and she did exactly the same thing.
That evening I met with some friends and relayed my experiances to them only to discover they had exactly the same thing happen to them.
(Fair's fair, this is a joke I pinched from ISIRTA, only they do it a lot better.)
"I'm just an ordinary commuter on the rail using it to get too and from work
So imagine my surprise when just last Tuesday a blonde temptress took all her clothes off on the train and lured me into a private compartment with me.
Imagine my further surprise when on the next day, the Wednesday I met another blonde, blue eyed temptree and she did exactly the same thing.
That evening I met with some friends and relayed my experiances to them only to discover they had exactly the same thing happen to them."
Didn't I read that in Penhouse Forum?
I think a site I came across that was half decent was called jaqued.com or something.
:gulp:
So sleazy!
😊
Assuming you're not Brad Pitt or Sandra Bullock--
Just try going up to a few dozen strangers and saying, "Hey, wanna hook up?" (or the like). If more of them respond affirmatively than laugh at you, stare angrily, call for a cop, or throw a hot beverage in your face, then sure, that "Toothing" thing was real.
(Admittedly, using an expensive gadget to send the message might change the results somewhat, but not by that much.)
Another thing I kept thinking was that no matter how attractive a hypothetical Toother might be, the fact that they are doing something called Toothing would be a huge turn-off, especially if they actually typed or (yech) said it.
While "toothing" might be a turn-off to some, other people get off on exactly that type of thing. Before you assume anything, I'm not one of them. I just like girls...all of them.
Actually, no. According to Wikipedia, it was named after a 10th century Danish king (odd, I recall reading somewhere it was named after a viking, not a king).