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melvins?
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Posted Jul 13, 2000 by Radagast
I've never heard of the term "melvin" as anything other than a rather unfashionable first name. Where I'm from (Eastern US), we call the act of pulling a persons underware up from behind further than it was meant to go a "wedgie" for obvious reasons.

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Posted Sep 10, 2000 by Will Jenkins (Dead)
I've also never heard of a "melvin" and wedgie is the term used for this pass-time where I'm from (UK).

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Posted Nov 16, 2004 by TRiG (Ireland) Human rights under attack in Uganda. Look it up. Excellent coverage on the blog "Box Turtle Bulletin"
Same here.

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