Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes (Knees and Toes)

So this past weekend my friend Allan came to visit NYC before being shipped off to whatever desert nation people in the National Guard get shipped off to these days. The Guard trained him in Arabic so he can better communicate ultimatums to evildoers. He was saying that in English when we call someone we love a "sweetheart" an Arabic speaker would reference a different body part - the kidneys. So a love letter might start with "Oh, my dearest kidney" or something like that. Kidneys, in Arabic, are the love-center of the body, I guess.

Then, today, I stumbled onto this website which has analyzed over 10,000 songs to find which body parts are the most commonly mentioned in a particular genre of music and picto-graphed the results.Eyes are the most-often sung about anatomical item in most genres, though both Blues and Gospel songwriters prefer to talk about hands (doing field labor and reaching out for Jesus's grasp, respectively, I'm assuming).Hip Hop's most popular people portion is the ass (or booty, or junk-filled trunk, or ba dunk a dunk, apple bottom or lady lump). Hip Hop also seems to be the only genre that really covers both the male and female genitalia in a comprehensive way (shockingly, weiners are more sung about than vajayjays!)

If you'd like to see what appendages you seem the most fixated on, grab a piece of your writing and copy and paste it into this form on the website. Lower lumbar was the most-frequent body part mentioned on my resume, for example.