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The Challenge:  The 'song subject' for the great Easter Bonnet(?) Special Challenge was this news story -- DATELINE: GRETNA, Louisiana -- The debate was serious.  The vote unanimous.  The Gretna City Council says it's now legal in Louisiana to throw women's underwear from Carnival floats.  "So we're pro-panties -- it's on the record," joked one city councilman.  However, it is still illegal to throw anything that is ". . . lewd or lascivious and includes, but is not limited to, condoms and inflatable paraphernalia."   The panty-throwing issue was pushed by protesting parade organizers.  "If panties are . . . vulgar, why are they exposed in every department store in the nation?" asked one of the captains of the Elks Krewe of Gretna.  Another Mardi Gras group captain firmly agreed.  "Panties have been a legitimate throw for Mardi Gras for years," he said.!

Throwing Panties Blues by Amos

Well you throw that, and I'll throw this!
Watch 'em get their knickers in a twist!
Hungry men, their minds on fire!
Underwear, their hearts desire!

Throwing out them panties
Yeah, throwing out them panties
Keep on throwing out them panties
Until the break of day.

Suzie Quill and Missy Wright,
All worked up to the men's delight!
Tearing off them underclothes
High on a float with their minks exposed,

They were throwing off them panties
Throwing off them panties!
Throwing of them panties,
Until the break of day.

Suzie Quill pulled off her bra
Raised it high and threw it far
Hit that sheriff in the snout!
Double D, and all fall out,

Jes' throwing off them panties
Throwing off them panties
Throwing off them panties,
Until the break of day.

Boogie woogie fade... 

Amos Jessup (2000)

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