Guessing Game Results: The Thong

Earlier this week, we asked you for your guesses as to which senior Administration official gave her party guests a glimpse of her thong (which, a reader advises us, is commonly referred to as “a whale tail” — see photo at right to understand why). You gave us some pretty interesting responses, which we’ll now share in these pages.

Before doing so, however, here’s a caveat from a reader who views this as much ado about nothing: “No woman wears ‘full-bottom’ panties anymore. Tell your tipster to get with it.”

After the jump, your uneducated guesses and wild speculation as to the identity of the thong-sporting official.

Here are some of the guesses we received:

• “Was it Ken Mehlman?”

Probably not. First, as Chairman of the Republican National Committee, Mehlman doesn’t count as an “Administration official.” Second, everyone knows Mehlman wears garter belts and stockings.

• “Harriet Miers, her 15 minutes aren’t over yet!”

Sorry, dunno what kind of underwear she likes — you’d have to ask Nathan Hecht.

• “Your reader’s story suggests this took place ‘[s]ome time ago.’ Therefore I’m submitting Madeleine Albright. Oh da horra, da horra!”

• “The key phrase is ‘Some time ago,’ meaning the thong wearer may not be a current administration official. My guess is Christie Whitman. She comes from New Jersey, not far from our fair City of Sinful Delights, Blue State, USA. Where else would a thong-wearer come from?”

• “it’s impressive. not only did you promise to keep the identity a secret, you also changed the gender of the pronouns. because, really, we all know it’s Chertoff after that earlier AP story line.”

• “Karen Hughes”

Hughes was actually the most popular guesss — but she’s a Texan, which makes her an unlikely candidate. In our original post, we floated the name of Secretary Margaret Spellings as a possibility. A reader indignantly responded: “You don’t honestly think it is Margaret Spellings, do you? She’s from Houston, and we all know that Texans don’t wear thongs. They go commando!”

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Senior Administration Official Guessing Game: The Thong

Past installments of our Senior Administration Official Guessing Game haven’t been huge hits around here. But you may feel differently about the latest edition.

Valentine’s Day makes people think of many different things: flowers, chocolate, candy hearts… and sexy underwear. A reader sent us this information:

Given your unseemly interest in women’s underwear, you are sure to enjoy this item. Some time ago, I was at a party at the home of [a senior Administration official]. At one point during the gathering, she had to reach for something on a low shelf. In doing so, she allowed me — and several other guests — to catch a glimpse of her underwear. And you’ll be thrilled to know that it wasn’t just an ordinary pair of panties. YUP: she was wearing a thong!

It wasn’t a particularly scandalous thong — just a simple, white cotton thong. But it was interesting that she was wearing it, since she wasn’t wearing a sheer dress or anything that might give rise to a “visible panty line” (VPL) problem. Maybe she just likes how it feels?

Very interesting… We promised this reader we wouldn’t reveal the identity of his friend, and we stand by our agreements with our sources.

But we didn’t say we wouldn’t allow our readers to speculate! So if you have any guesses, or hopes, as to the identity of this senior Administration official — Gale Norton? Elaine Chao? Condoleezza Rice? — please email us, with the word “thong” in the subject of your message. If we receive enough interesting or amusing responses, we may share them in these pages.

(Don’t worry, messages with “thong” in the subject make it past our spam filter. Trust us — we checked.)

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Not to Start a Turf War Here, but Domestic Ladies’ Undergarments Are Clearly the FBI’s Domain

With the Plame case losing ink to Abramoff and the NSA, the CIA is clearly lashing out.

[…]George C. Dalmas III, 44, works at the CIA. He has now been charged with 17 burglaries in the McLean area. And in a search of his Falls Church home, police said, they found a stunning trove of cash, jewelry, antiques, license plates — and bags filled with more than 1,000 women’s undergarments.

Attorney General Gonzales has already released a statement insisting that “President Washington, President Lincoln, President Wilson, [and] President Roosevelt have all authorized pantie-raiding on a far broader scale.”

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