Mr Weiner, who is married, originally claimed that someone had hacked into his Twitter account to post a photo of a man's crotch in grey underpants.

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He will most likely encounter any one or more familiar ailments such as tooth decay, blisters and haemorrhoids, and less familiar ones such as crotch-rot and frostbite.

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Michael's actions in later years -- from his serial plastic surgeries, which removed all family resemblance, to his famous crotch-grabbing dance move -- can be seen as lashing out over that abuse, Wanis said.

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Unfortunately, the idea is better than the movie: the adventures on and off the ice, and the endless flow of innuendo (lots of crotch jokes and winking allusions to homosexuality), signify humor without actually being funny.

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What no one dares stop calling the Special Relationship has been defined down the years by images - Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher dancing, George W Bush joking about sharing Colgate with a grinning Tony Blair squeezed into crotch hugging chinos and years later spinning a be-suited and grim-faced Gordon Brown around in a golf buggy.

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