The Art of Mooning

5 Easy Steps to a Successful Moon

Let me see your best moon! What? A moon you say? Yes, a moon! I am sure you have heard of it, the fine art of baring one's buttocks by the dropping of the pants. Mooning is done for a variety of reasons, some find it simply funny, some do it to shock value, some do it because they are just freaks and like to expose themselves, others to be rude or make a statement. No matter the reason behind it, you can be sure your act of mooning will not soon be forgotten!

Mooning wasn't developed yesterday. It has been around for many a moons! Mooning has a long history still in the making to the point of the notoriety it has now. It's not limited to just the good ol' USA; Australia and Europe also are accustom to the art. The difference there is, you may hear it referred to as "flashing a brown-eye" or "chucking a brown-eye".

Mooning goes as far back as 1346 when during the Battle of Crecy, several hundred soldiers exposed their backsides to the English archers. Mooning has been used to make political statements of sorts, such as in the Moon against the Monarchy in 2000 at the Buckingham palace. Mooning has been used for pure entertainment value, such as in the Annual Mooning of Amtrak in California (which, by the way has started a nation wide epidemic of train moonings) and like when Ozzy Osborne decided to flash his posterior at the 2005 UK Music Hall of Fame after he and his group Black Sabbath played.

Sporting events are not exempt from the baring of the grand ol' buttocks either! Randy Moss of the Minnesota Vikings at a Packers game did the famous moon after he scored a touchdown back in 2005. That put him in the record Hall of Mooning Fame for a mere $10,000.00 fine that the NFL imposed on him.

Nevertheless, know this, these moons were not bared thoughtlessly. They were well thought out, planned, and practiced. You really don't think that Randy Moss dropped his pants for the first time in his life at that Packers Game do you? Perfection like that just doesn't happen without practice! Although maybe not the best way to make a point, or way to get a laugh, you have to admit, these moons made a lasting impression