Cleveland Steamer

Cleveland steamer: 1. (n.) The act of one person defecating on the nude chest of another person. 2. (n.) The same act, purportedly done for the sexual gratification or sexual humiliation of coprophiliacs or of extreme practitioners of BDSM. 3. (interj.) A phrase uttered by [[Dane Cook|lowbrow comedians lacking in talent]] to get a cheap laugh. 4. (n.) In recent use, just a turd. Etymology: unknown or [[disputed]]. Date of the earliest known attestation on the Internet: February 3, 1995 on the [[Usenet]] newsgroup alt.sex in response to the question http://groups.google.com/group/alt.sex/browse_frm/thread/8ca9e251ab8d3d9f/afbe947e224e64e0?lnk=st&q=%22cleveland+steamer%22&rnum=1&hl=en&_done=%2Fgroup%2Falt.sex%2Fbrowse_frm%2Fthread%2F8ca9e251ab8d3d9f%2Fafbe947e224e64e0%3Flnk%3Dst%26q%3D%2522cleveland%2Bsteamer%2522%26rnum%3D1%26hl%3Den&pli=1" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">What is a steamer?

Examples of usage from Wikipedia's original Cleveland Steamer Article

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Possible Etymologies

* "Lost in the mists of time," according to [[Wikipedia]]. That's Wikipedo for "we don't know, we don't know how to find out, we're too lazy to find out, so quit asking."
* Has something to do with some brand of grill called Cleveland Steamers, which are steam-based cooking machines. While this may be amusing for some it's irrelevant, but it was brought into the Wikipedia discussion to provide yet another "pop culture reference," which [[TOW]] thrives on.
* It may actually be as simple as what the original alt.sex poster said: Cleveland smells dirty, and turds steam.
* Perhaps the obvious [[sockpuppet]] "Lord Pedicabo," writing on the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Cleveland_steamer" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Cleveland Steamer talk page was right. At one time, a few decades ago, Lake Erie, Cleveland's waterfront, was a dead lake because of industrial waste. At the same time, people would routinely dig clams on beaches to steam for eating. These were called "steamer clams," and were an essential part of a clambake. So, perhaps the two concepts were conflated, and a "Cleveland steamer" became a turd.
* This is complete speculation, but the "Cleveland steamer" may have originated as a joke played on people in the context of a bar. A man may be drinking a gin and tonic, a respectable drink, and he may be accosted by a bar regular who asks him if he'd like to try something stronger and more manly, like a Cleveland steamer. Hilarity then ensues, especially when it is revealed that a truly [[fugly]] waitress will be serving his steamer.

The Drama

The Cleveland steamer was one of the most contentious articles on [[TOW]], with four AfD's calling for "keep", five for "no consensus", which foolishly defaults to keep, and a final "merge" vote to merge it with coprophilia, which isn't really where it belongs either. It was taken to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Articles_for_deletion" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">AfD a total of ten times. Most of the drama involved with the Cleveland Steamer can be found in the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Cleveland_steamer" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">talk page for the now defunct Cleveland Steamer article and in the ten deletion discussions that occurred when the article was taken to Articles for deletion. Many people thought that the definition, plus some pop culture "references" made for a perfectly good encyclopedia article, while others, citing Wikipedia policy, pointed out WP:WINAD, which stands for "Wikipedia is not a dictionary," meaning that a dictionary definition, a list of uses, and even a stab at an etymology constituted nothing more that a dictionary definition. In reality, almost everyone voting in the deletion discussion couldn't be bothered to decide whether it constituted a good Wikipedia article. They they thought it was funny, and they did not want the Wikipedia [[bureaucratic fuck]]s taking away their funny poopy article. It is the granddaddy of the [[List of sex moves|sex moves]], and has been followed up by literally hundreds of other improbable and impossible sex moves made up by [[13 year old boys]] and older basement dwellers who have never had sex and likely never will.

So what about Gaius?

Gaius Valerius Catullus was a Roman poet of the first century B.C. Since he's been dead a long time, we'll assume that the guy who posted the Usenet article was someone else who had just discovered how to hide his identity with something new-fangled at the time called a "Username." Before [[eternal September]], most people just used their real names and real email addresses to log into [[Usenet]]. To give you some perspective, back in the day before it took two hours to download a picture of a naked [[Asian|Azn]] woman on CERN's new World Wide Web, people used to get their porn from alt.binaries.pictures.erotica and their [[dissected-chan|autopsy pics]] ([[guro]] for you newbies) from alt.binaries.pictures.tasteless. Usually a picture on these newsgroups was broken up into about four different posts. One had to download each post, put them on Microsoft Word, or equivalent, and link them together into one encoded document. Then, one had to use a decoder to turn the uuencoded doc into a .gif. So, long story short, Gaius was a student at Dartmouth College in 1995 when he made this post. According to him, he heard of the Steamer from a guy on the Dartmouth Football Team who learned about it at a place an Ivy-League bound young man with a football scholarship should never have been frequenting at age 17, but then again, he was going to Dartmouth. Gaius's friend learned of the Steamer at an old-style porn theater in Kansas City called the Old Chelsea Theatre. Between screenings of pornographic films like "Leave it To Cleavage," nasty, [[fugly]] [[fatty]] [[whore]]s would strip and an old [[Jewish]] guy with a fez and no pants would tell bawdy jokes about things like the Cleveland Steamer.

See also

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*[[Shit that nobody cares about]]
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*[[List of sex moves]]
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*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coprophilia" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Wikipedia's article on Coprophilia
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*http://groups.google.com/group/alt.sex/browse_frm/thread/8ca9e251ab8d3d9f/afbe947e224e64e0?lnk=st&q=%22cleveland+steamer%22&rnum=1&hl=en&_done=%2Fgroup%2Falt.sex%2Fbrowse_frm%2Fthread%2F8ca9e251ab8d3d9f%2Fafbe947e224e64e0%3Flnk%3Dst%26q%3D%2522cleveland%2Bsteamer%2522%26rnum%3D1%26hl%3Den&pli=1" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">What is a steamer?
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*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Cleveland_steamer" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Wikipedia's Cleveland steamer talk page.
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*[[Church of Fudge]]
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*[[2 girls 1 cup]]
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*[[Cleveland]]

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