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The general consensus, she said, was shock and dismay.

Then she asked the manager what he thought. According to Donnelly, this is what he said:

“Ma’am. Ma’am. We’re told where to place merchandise. Ma'am. We follow floor plan procedures sent to us by our corporation."

The thong attained national notoriety in 1998, when Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's report came out detailing the president's nefarious love life.

"In the course of flirting with (President Clinton),’’ the report states, “(Lewinsky | raised her jacket in the back and showed him the straps of her thong underwear, which extended above her pants.”

And with that, the garment became part of our national archives. But the peak of the underwear’s popularity came in 2002 when onehit-wonder band Siqo came out with the “Thong Song”:

“I like it when the beat goes Duh dun duh Baby make your booty go Duh dun duh Baby I know you wanna show Duh dun duh That thong thong thong thong thong.”

Lately, Americans have

81.4%