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- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 11:32:27 MST
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- From: Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Camillemania
- Comments: To: English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
- In-Reply-To: Message of Sat, 26 Dec 1992 13:35:45 EST from <ktw@MHWPA.ATT.COM>
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- On Sat, 26 Dec 1992 13:35:45 EST <ktw@MHWPA.ATT.COM> said:
- >> Great one-liner by Molly Ivins: "Madonna has done for girls what lassie did
- >> for dogs."
- >
- >Which Madonna, though? The Boy Toy of 1985? The social commentator
- >of "Papa, Don't Preach"? The sexual-religious mystic of "Like a
- >Prayer"? Or the cynical and brilliant businesswoman who would go down
- >on Lassie if a camera were around and it would advance her career?
- >
- right....but she probably already has....whether on camera or not...
-
- and doesn't even care if lassie is the theoretically female lassie of the
- stories, or the male lassie that played the part on the tube, and also in
- films, i believe....luckily for them lassie was a hairy breed, not a short
- hair like bernard where the family jewels would be visible to all....
- of course the sex-changing of lassie would probably please madonna even more...
-
-
- dan the cyclops
-