Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini

In Today's Swimsuit Special

Men in swimsuits
Bikini
That's Amaaaaaazing
Random Joke

Could I wear a bikini?

Could I wear a thong?

At six foot three and eighteen stone

Would it look soooo wrong?

Teeny tiny garments

Barely swim suits

Their style and shapes

Belay their ethnic roots

Italians and the French

Wear teeny little pants

The English with their

Tattoo’s and sweary cheerful bants

Tiny shitey whities

With junk crammed in

Budgie smugglers content jugglers

Too much in the tin

All in the name

Of vanity

Make me shout

Profanities

The human body

So beautiful and complex

But they always look better

On the opposite sex !

The oldest documented bikinis show up in a 1,700 year old Roman mosaic entitled Chamber of the Ten Maidens.

Brooklyn-based designer Andrew Schneider invented the first solar powered bikini—the “iKini”—which produces enough electricity to power an iPod during a sunny day at the beach. Just remember to unplug it, the inventor says, before taking a dip.

The famous white belted bikini worn by Ursula Andress in the 1962 James Bond hit Dr. No sold for £31,500 at Christie's in London in 2001. Halle Barry modeled a redux of a similar suit in the 2002 Bond flick, Die Another Day.

French designer Jacques Heim’s first itsy-bitsy bathing suit hit the fashion scene in 1946. Tapping into the worldwide obsession with nuclear physics, he named his tiny invention the “atom.” A few months later, another French designer, Louis Reard, one-upped Heim, revealing an even tinier suit, which he dubbed the “bikini” after Bikini Atoll, the island in the Pacific where the U.S. had tested the atom bomb. The new swimsuit, it was said, was as small as an atom and just as powerful.

The 19th-century version of a bikini was made out of either heavy flannel or wool—fabrics that would not be transparent when wet—and covered the entire body from neck to toe. The suits were so heavy that women had to hold onto ropes strung from the beach to offshore buoys to keep from sinking.

The bikini rocketed to fame in 1960 with Brian Hyland’s hit single, “Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini.” 

In 2009, a group of vegetarian ladies campaigned in international cities wearing bikinis made only of lettuce leaves. The “Lettuce Ladies” as they were called were sponsored by the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, and hoped to convince people to adopt a meatless diet.

In 1993, the Olympic Committee decreed the bikini the official uniform for women’s beach volleyball, partly because of the functionality of the suit. Athletes complain that when wearing more conventional uniform—the one-piece, for instance—“sand goes down the top and collects in the bottom," Holly McPeak, a three-time Olympic vollyballer told ABC News. 

That's Amaaaaaaaaazing

The largest bikini photo shoot involved 3,090 participants for an event organised by Huludao Municipal Government, on Longwan Beach,Huludao, Liao Ning Province, China, on 17 August 2011

Random Joke of the Day

"I'm proud of you for going to the Alcoholics Anonymous meeting last night," said my wife. "Ah," I thought, "so that's where I was."