But to some with "icky" sensibilities, that word is just too blatant. Seems a woman protested the marquee at the Atlantic Theater in Atlantic Beach, Florida featuring "The Vagina Monologues." She was driving by with her 12-year-old niece and probably figured the little dear shouldn't be exposed to such an obnoxius term for the female genitalia. So now, instead of "vagina" the marquee reads "The Hoohaa Monologues." (Gee, that's sooo much better.)

BoingBoing.net features a webpage listing various alternatives for the "hoohaa" including "hair pie, cock-chafer, wookie, breakfast of champions, slot pocket, kitty cage, chicken's tongue, salami garage, slurpee machine, beaver teeth, dinner roll, Mound of Venus, pork pie, hairy heaven, launch pad, meat crease, The Helmut Hide-A-Way, snake charmer, Displabia, snootch, the Twatlantic Ocean, Furby, and so many, many more interesting terms (no more complaints by novelists that they just can't come up with another term for "it"). My particular favorite is "jewel box" which fits the purplish prose of too many romance novels out there, usually set in a period before the discovery of electricity. Just imagine the following passage, "He found himself mesmerized by the sheer beauty of her jewel box and wanted to explore the vast treasures therein..."

As for the complainer, if she doesn't like the dulcet "hoohaa", at least the theater owners have a hundred options to choose from. I'd particularly like to see them feature "The Furby Monologues" myself. The title just kinds of roll off the tongue.