When I was at University of Cincinnati they had a "recreational computing" mailing list. One day some CS people decided to build a cocktail table video game con

When I was at University of Cincinnati they had a "recreational computing" mailing list. One day some CS people decided to build a cocktail table video game console using MAME or something like that. This rapidly became the MALE GENITALIAtail table (yes, all caps) due to some kind of obscenity search and replace on the list. The name stuck and there was a MALE GENITALIAtail table in the student union for a while.