{"id":337,"date":"2015-02-28T14:46:59","date_gmt":"2015-02-28T20:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richyrocks.com\/?p=337"},"modified":"2020-03-10T09:27:52","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T15:27:52","slug":"tighty-whities-or-tidy-whities-in-birdman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richyrocks.com\/coolenglish\/tighty-whities-or-tidy-whities-in-birdman\/","title":{"rendered":"tighty whities (or tidy whities?) in birdman"},"content":{"rendered":"

last weekend at the 87th academy awards<\/strong>, mexican director alejandro gonzalez i\u00f1\u00e1rritu<\/strong> won the award for best director.<\/p>\n

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alejandro gonzalez i\u00f1arritu wining the oscar for best director.<\/em><\/h5>\n

during\u00a0his acceptance speech, he talked about his\u00a0good luck charm<\/a><\/strong><\/em> (an item that attracts good luck)<\/p>\n

tonight I am wearing the real michael keaton tighty-whities<\/em>. thank u. they are tight<\/em>, smell like balls<\/em>….but it worked. i’m here. thank u, michael.<\/h4>\n
\"keaton<\/a><\/h6>\n
the former birdman levitating & meditating\u00a0in his tighty whities\u00a0(foxsearchlight)<\/em><\/h6>\n

there is some disagreement about how to write the underpants mentioned. sometimes they are called tidy<\/strong><\/em> whities<\/strong><\/em>. perhaps the solid white color gives the idea that they are clean, but they don’t always look tidy<\/em><\/a> or white<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"tightywhitey\"<\/h6>\n
joe lee from true blood<\/strong> demonstrating that tidy whities<\/span> aren’t always tidy. or white.<\/em><\/h6>\n

most of the media reported i\u00f1arritu’s oscar speech using the phrase\u00a0tighty whities<\/em><\/strong>, most likely because he described keaton’s underpants\u00a0as tight<\/strong><\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

the confusion in spelling is also casued by another phonetic phenomenon in amercian english: a t<\/strong><\/em> between two vowel sounds is often\u00a0pronounced more like a d<\/strong><\/em> than a t<\/em><\/strong>. words like better, tomato, fighter, waited, later, little, matter, metal, hater\u00a0and\u00a0getting, are good examples of\u00a0this. for this reason tidy<\/em> and tighty<\/em> sound the same in this underpants expression.<\/p>\n

\"inarritu<\/a><\/h6>\n
i\u00f1arritu\u00a0thanking michael keaton for lending him his\u00a0<\/em>tighty-whities<\/u>, that smell like balls<\/u>.\u00a0<\/em>(abcnews)<\/em><\/h6>\n

i\u00f1arritu’s mention that keaton’s drawers<\/strong><\/em> (another name for underwear) smell like balls<\/em> <\/strong>(testicles) may be an obvious observation given the tight fit of tighty whities<\/em>\u00a0in the crotch<\/a><\/strong><\/em> area (between the legs). it is a reference to a line in the movie as well, that appears at the :08\u00a0of the trailer<\/p>\n